The Innovation

Damos NexGen Wear-Tuff is a performance innovation with the ability to run at greater pressures, whilst featuring better abrasion resistance; leading to a maximum pipe performance beyond the capabilities of HDPE100.

Customer Values

Damos NexGen Wear-Tuff is not only a material innovation, it also creates a number of benefits to customers, asset owners and operators, due to its ease of installation, cost efficiency and design life.

Sustainable Development

Damos NexGen Wear-Tuff has been created through intense research and development phases, in order to provide a material with higher performance than traditional PE100. The results of this higher performance means that the NexGen Wear-Tuff will provide longer service life, and higher durability, resulting in less material consumption and more sustainable manufacturing processes.

10% Higher Pressure Withstanding

Operating pressure has a direct relationship with inherent thickness and strength of the material (highlighted in the equation opposite). With a MRS of 11.2MPa, Damos NexGen Wear-Tuff, is able to achieve an operating pressure 10% greater than conventional PE100; whilst utilising a wall thickness which is 10% less than conventional PE100.

50% Higher Abrasion Resistance

HDPE is used in a range of pipeline applications within the mining industry, most commonly for tailings and water management pipelines in not open pit and underground mining. Tailings pipelines are used to transfer highly abrasive sedimentary slurry, hence a great deal of focus is placed on a high level of abrasion resistance in these applications. From technical studies and mining simulation software analysis, Damos NexGen Wear-Tuff shows a 50% greater abrasion resistance than traditional PE 100.

Sand Slurry Test

Method modified from the Saskatchewan Erosion Studies Silica sand slurry (48 mesh, 0.5-1.0mm, 25% by weight) Velocity of slurry 4.0 m/s. The wear rates were measured in terms of thickness loss by using ultrasonic equipment.