COMPANY CAPABILITIES

Improved Piping Products, Inc.® (IPP) has developed a position of leadership in the engineering design, manufacture and distribution of piping flange systems. With over twenty-six years of piping industry experience employed in its patented IPP Deltaflex® convoluted flange design, IPP has been instrumental in bringing reduced costs and increased performance to flanging systems. IPP Deltaflex® flange technology is an innovative, modern high-performance flange design that is adaptable to steel as well as all thermoplastic piping systems. Our company is committed to further research and to offering its clients cost effective, quality products. IPP strengths are:

• Design of custom flanging sytems providing maximum performance at minimum cost
• Manufacture of quality flanges at minimum cost to the client
• Distribution systems to provide on-time delivery to the end-user
• Research results are provided and updated as a service to the industry

With its considerable resources, IPP is indeed the full service flange company with a strong commitment to customer needs.

Design
Clients rely on IPP’s professional staff to provide custom design, hard research and answers to difficult flange engineering problems. IPP engineers utilize its patented IPP Deltaflex® flange technology to increase flange performance, reduce weight and save money for clients across a broad spectrum of industries.

Quality Manufacturing
Quality assurance programs are at the heart of IPP’s manufacturing expertise. IPP Deltaflex® flange products are produced under an exacting QA/QC program that is administered from its corporate offices by an independent QA/QC manager. The IPP approach to QA assures that each order, large or small, is produced under the same inspection program with the same rigorous acceptance standards. The company employs a very high percentage of inspectors in its manufacturing operations to monitor semi-finished materials as well as finished goods. This program has radically improved productivity, quality and on-time performance, allowing IPP to offer the most cost competitive product lines in the piping industry.

Research Information Systems
IPP regularly publishes the results of its research as a service to the industry. The design staff provides updated reference tables, educational videos and installation instruction manuals for its products. All this information is available to IPP Deltaflex® flange users worldwide, free of charge. IPP is designed to be the full-service flange company with a strong customer connection.

Manufacturing
Raw materials are delivered to the IPP finishing plant in Shanghai, China where they are turned into the final IPP Deltaflex® flange product. Standard flanges are also produced to EU, DIN, AWWA and ANSI specifications. It is at this point that critical quality control inspections are finalized and products accepted for shipment to warehouses in the United States.
The raw materials, generally in the form of rough castings, are inspected for quality standards and prepared for finishing work, including:

• Surface finishing
• Drilling of the bolt patterns
• Machining
• Sandblasting
• Coating applications (epoxy, galvanized)

The finished flange is inspected for final acceptance and packaged for shipment.

Distribution Europe
IPP operates an efficient manufacturing and distribution network in Europe. The system supplies finished flanges to the thermoplastic piping industry. The European distribution center at Hamburg, Germany supplies flanges to IPPI Europe’s sales partners who serve a cross section of the piping industry.