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PVC Sheet Pile

Sheet pile can be classified into steel sheet pile, vinyl sheet pile, timber sheet pile or concrete sheet pile, depending on the materials used. Steel sheet pile have been used over 100 years all over the world, but the steel rust and endless maintenance is the main disadvantages. Until the creation of vinyl sheet piles over 20 years ago, vinyl sheet pile solve all these problems. Vinyl sheet piling have different names: PVC sheet pile, uPVC sheet pile, composite sheet pile, plastic sheet pile , plastic piling , plastic sheet piling
Synthetic sheet piling etc, all mean same things. Today, PVC sheet piles have been used widely like seawalls, bulkheads, lake walls and water control structures etc.

 

Vinyl Sheet Piling Advantages:
1. The Vinyl sheet piles never rust and maintains its original looks all time. The plastic sheet pile does not require any maintenance and always looks clean and good. The Vinyl piling can be supplied in different colors, no other materials can achieve this functions.
2. Durability: Composite sheet piles are resistant to sun's ultra violet rays and chemicals and are not affected by water organisms. Vinyl sheet piling are also resistant to rodent and marine borer attack and not effected by salt waters. Plastic can be used where steel, concrete, wood can not.
3. Easy to handle: Since Vinyl sheet piles are lighter than steel, so easier to hand and cut.
4.Plastic sheet piles  are environment friendly. The sheet piles are manufactured from recycled plastic and don't contain any harmful substances which may leak into the environment. This make vinyl sheet pile the only options for home construction, health care, communications etc.
5. Low costs. Also because of its smaller weight, the transportations costs is relatively lower. In some countries, import tax is heavy for steel sheet pilings, but no tax for Vinyl sheet piles, which will make the final prices of plastic sheet piles much cheaper.
6. Nowadays Plastic sheet piling systems are already available on the market, like Vinyl caps, Vinyl walers, Vinyl tier rods, Vinyl anchors, Vinyl accessories are all available. That means as long as steel sheet piles can be used ,Vinyl sheet pile can also be used. The Plastic sheet piling itself also have different shapes, like box profile, Z profile, flat profile, trench pile, flat pile, corner pile, full pan pile etc.

    

Section	Dimensions				Profile	Allowable Moment	Section Modulus	Moment of inertia
	Width	Height	Thickness
	b mm	h mm	t mm	s mm		kNm/m	cm3/m	cm4/m
Vinyl sheet pile
CDV 950	457	305	16.5	16.6	Z	68.37	3055	46568
CDV 850	457	254	13.1	13.2	Z	45.12	2001	25401
CDV 575	610	229	12.1	7.5	Flat	38.01	1678	12431
CDV 650	457	254	9.8	9.9	Z	36.11	1592	20213
CDV 625	762	254	9.8	9.9	Box	29.94	1313	16661
CDV 475	610	178	6.1	6.5	Flat	25.32	1103	6146
CDV 9900	610	229	8.9	9.0	Box	24.72	1076	12291
CDV 550	305	203	9.4	9.5	Z	24.13	1049	10653
CDV 525	610	229	7.4	7.5	Box	21.87	947	10789
CDV 9000	610	229	7.1	7.2	Box	20.22	872	9970
CDV 425	610	203	7.2	7.3	Box	17.96	770	7785
CDV 300	305	178	6.4	6.5	Z	14.88	630	5600
CDV 325	610	178	6.4	6.5	Box	14.17	598	5327
CDV 225	457	127	5.7	5.8	Box	9.54	388	2459

Note: Other sizes are also available upon request.