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36 m composite utility pole tested
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36 m composite utility pole tested RESIN SYSTEMS Inc, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and its operating division RS Technologies, has successfully tested its 36 m (120 ft) filament wound RStandard™ modular utility structure, which includes the largest module to date of its product line. RS will use the new module to configure utility structures of different lengths and classes. The RStandard pole is made using RS’ Version polyurethane resin. The testing was carried out at RS’ testing facility in Calgary, Alberta. This facility was designed and constructed to the specifications of EDM International Inc, a Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA-based company specialising consulting, research and development services to the
The 36 m composite utility pole.
electrical utility industry. EDM representatives were present at the testing. “Completing testing to this height is important and allows us to fill existing backlog orders,” said RS’ chairman, president & CEO Greg Pendura. “With testing now completed, RS manufactures the largest commercially produced composite transmission poles in the world.”
RS has also announced the start of commercial production of RStandard utility structures from the first production cell at its Calgary plant. The second production cell is scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2006. At full capacity, the two production cells will be capable of producing approximately US$50 million worth of RStandard utility structures annually.
Shipments of RStandard utility structures have now started from the Calgary plant. The first container of poles has been shipped to a European Union energy producer. This is the first shipment of a US$26 million order for poles ranging in lengths from 32 m (105 ft) to 36 m (120 ft) and will be filled over the next two years. RS; www.grouprsi.com.
January 2006
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36 m composite utility pole tested RESIN SYSTEMS Inc, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and its operating division RS Technologies, has successfully tested its 36 m (120 ft) filament wound RStandard™ modular utility structure, which includes the largest module to date of its product line. RS will use the new module to configure utility structures of different lengths and classes. The RStandard pole is made using RS’ Version polyurethane resin. The testing was carried out at RS’ testing facility in Calgary, Alberta. This facility was designed and constructed to the specifications of EDM International Inc, a Ft. Collins, Colorado, USA-based company specialising consulting, research and development services to the
The 36 m composite utility pole.
electrical utility industry. EDM representatives were present at the testing. “Completing testing to this height is important and allows us to fill existing backlog orders,” said RS’ chairman, president & CEO Greg Pendura. “With testing now completed, RS manufactures the largest commercially produced composite transmission poles in the world.”
RS has also announced the start of commercial production of RStandard utility structures from the first production cell at its Calgary plant. The second production cell is scheduled to start operations in the first quarter of 2006. At full capacity, the two production cells will be capable of producing approximately US$50 million worth of RStandard utility structures annually.
Shipments of RStandard utility structures have now started from the Calgary plant. The first container of poles has been shipped to a European Union energy producer. This is the first shipment of a US$26 million order for poles ranging in lengths from 32 m (105 ft) to 36 m (120 ft) and will be filled over the next two years. RS; www.grouprsi.com.
January 2006
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