Fire-protected pipe couplings prepared for duty

Specialist pipe coupling manufacturer Teekay Couplings is supplying its fireprotected pipe couplings to the Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers that are being built in stages at shipyards around the UK.

Teekay Axilock-FP Pipe Couplings have been selected for joining steel, copper nickel and GRE plain end pipes on the QEC project. Use of the couplings avoids the need for welding, flanging, threading or grooving the pipe, and using Teekay couplings instead of traditional steel flange sets is said to reduce the space, weight, time and cost of the installed pipework system.

Teekay Axilock-FP Pipe Couplings comply with MoD shock and fire protection requirements for use on Naval Vessels and are fully compliant with current IACS regulations.

Other recent orders include 50,000 couplings for a cruise vessel builder in Northern Europe; supply of Axilock-FP couplings for the Type 45 Anti-Air Warfare Destroyer Project, the backbone of the Royal Navy's future air defence capability; and several orders for the New Orleans reconstruction programme, including the company's top of the range 4115mm diameter coupling for water pipelines.