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.