{"id":99896,"date":"2026-04-14T08:23:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T08:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irwindevc.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=99896"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:57:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T13:57:50","slug":"industries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Industry Applications<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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High-precision PE-lined pipe \u00b7 Automet\u00ae digital-twin survey \u00b7 global prefabricated delivery \u2014 reliable seawater-piping solutions for shipping, oil & gas, mining and environmental retrofits.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Marine & Offshore<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Marine & Offshore \u00b7 drydock pipe-prefabrication specialists<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Key Challenge<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Corrosion and leaks are frequent on in-service seawater lines, while drydock windows are very short; traditional on-site welding and hot work carry safety risks, high rework rates and longer off-hire.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Irwin Solution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Automet\u00ae digital-twin survey plus 100% workshop-prefabricated PE-lined spools that simply bolt up on arrival at the dock \u2014 zero on-site hot work, zero trimming.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The China price, worldwide<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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5-year warranty \u00b7 service life over 15 years<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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100% prefabricated \u00b7 fit on arrival<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Benchmark Projects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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7,500 TEU container vessel \u2014 fully prefabricated central-cooling pipe project<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 the vessel's entire central-cooling seawater line, 100% workshop-prefabricated, fitted first time on docking with zero rework, saving 5 drydock days.<\/p>\n

Dubai bulk carrier \u2014 central-cooling pipe<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 precise Automet survey and PE-lined carbon-steel seawater pipe; total cost down 55%, delivered ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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<\/i>\u00a07500 TEU: 100% prefabricated, first-time fit. Dubai bulk carrier: >50% cost saving.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Oil & Gas \u00b7 LNG \/ FSRU<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Oil & Gas \u00b7 regasification & exhaust-management pipe<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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FSRU regasification seawater pipe is large-bore (DN800+) and complex; international projects need multi-site coordination, and traditional approaches carry high on-site trimming risk and heavy off-hire losses.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Irwin Solution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Coordinated global survey (Brazil\/Europe) plus precision PE-lined prefabrication in China, with digital-twin-guaranteed flange and gasket tolerances, installed directly on arrival at the T\u00fcrkiye yard.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Delivery across three continents<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Weeks of off-hire saved<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Zero on-site trimming \u00b7 100% fit<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Benchmark Projects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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T\u00fcrkiye FSRU \u2014 regasification seawater-pipe renewal<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 large PE-lined spools supplied from Brazil-based Automet survey data, manufactured in China and shipped to T\u00fcrkiye; won on quality and cost.<\/p>\n

DN800 EGCS scrubber-seawater pipe renewal<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 25 m of pipe with three DN600 branches, fully prefabricated, 100% first-time fit, saving substantial off-hire with zero hot work.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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<\/i>Turkey FSRU regasification: Brazil survey \u2192 China fab \u2192 Turkey bolt-up. DN800 EGCS: 100% first-time fit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Mining<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Mining \u00b7 high-abrasion slurry & chemical lines<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Abrasive slurry and acidic media perforate ordinary carbon-steel pipe within months; frequent replacement causes heavy downtime losses, and on-site repair is difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Irwin Solution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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HDPE rotary-lining technology suits elbows, tees and other complex geometries, with abrasion resistance up to 95% better than rubber lining and refurbishment at just 50% of new-pipe cost.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Up to 95% better wear resistance than rubber<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Refurbishment = 50% of new pipe<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Field-repairable \u00b7 less downtime<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Benchmark Projects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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A large Asian mining company \u2014 tailings line<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 DN150\u2013DN500 PE-lined pipe and elbows supplied to replace plain steel, extending service life from 9 months to over 3 years and cutting maintenance cost by 62%.<\/p>\n

Copper-mine leach line \u2014 refurbishment<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 old pipe re-lined with HDPE to restore performance in just 4 days, at under half the cost of new pipe.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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<\/i>HDPE lining extends a service life over 15 years in slurry service. Refurbishment at 50% cost of new spools.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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BWTS \/ EGCS Retrofit<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Ballast-water treatment & exhaust-gas-cleaning retrofits<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Engine-room space is extremely tight and old pipework has no drawings; on-site retrofit needs heavy cutting and welding, badly affecting the yard's drydock schedule with high hot-work safety risk.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Automet 3D laser scanning builds a digital model of the engine room and reverse-engineers new pipe drawings; fully prefabricated PE-lined spools fit on arrival, cutting on-board hot work by 90%.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Hot work cut by 90%<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Drydock time cut by 3\u20135 days<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A large container fleet \u2014 BWTS retrofit<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 six consecutive vessels used Irwin's prefabricated approach; 100% prefabricated spools, with the yard reporting \"zero trimming, fit and go\" and 4 drydock days saved per ship.<\/p>\n

Bulk carrier \u2014 EGCS scrubber seawater pipe<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 delivered end-to-end by digital twin, installed with no on-site welding and passing classification-society survey first time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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<\/i>90% reduction in hot work, class-approved prefabricated spools for BWTS\/EGCS retrofit.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Seawater Cooling Systems<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

LT coolers \u00b7 ballast lines \u00b7 fire-water mains<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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Central coolers (LT) and ballast-pump lines suffer constant seawater corrosion and frequent leaks; conventional replacement means cutting out and re-welding whole sections \u2014 costly and carbon-heavy.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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The Irwin Solution<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Old-pipe PE re-lining: after cleaning the inner wall, the pipe is re-lined with polyethylene, outperforming new pipe at under 50% of its cost and sharply cutting carbon by reusing the steel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Service life over 15 years after refurbishment<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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24-hour emergency refurbishment<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Carbon footprint down 60%<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A major liner company \u2014 full LT-cooler replacement<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 30 prefabricated large-bore PE-lined spools plus PE-lined seawater strainers supplied; installed with zero misalignment, improving cooling efficiency with 5 years maintenance-free.<\/p>\n

A 10-year-old bulk carrier \u2014 seawater-line refurbishment<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 urgent PE re-lining of critical sections completed within 24 hours to restore operation, at just 42% of the yard's new-pipe quote.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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<\/i>PE re-lining of existing pipes: better-than-new performance, 50% lower cost, 60% less carbon.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Emergency repair & global delivery<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

Emergency Response \u00b7 remote digital survey + fast delivery<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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A pipe bursts at any port worldwide where there is no local lining or fabrication capability; the traditional route ships the old pipe back to the workshop \u2014 4\u20136 weeks, with customs restrictions on importing used pipe.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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Remote-guided digital survey + 48-hour prefabrication in Shenzhen + air or express-sea freight delivers from survey to site in 6\u20138 days, with no used-pipe import, and an installation team can attend the vessel.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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6\u20138 day global emergency delivery<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Compliant clearance \u00b7 no used-pipe import<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Benchmark Projects<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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A Hong Kong shipowner \u2014 emergency pipe supply<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 with the old pipe unable to be shipped from Hong Kong to the mainland, Irwin captured the data remotely with Automet, prefabricated in Shenzhen in 6 days and shipped back to Hong Kong \u2014 solving the lack of a local lining facility.<\/p>\n

Zhoushan DN800 large-bore pipe project<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>\u2013 manufactured straight from the digital survey, with no need to copy the old pipe or build welding jigs \u2014 an industry first that saved the yard 70% of prefabrication time.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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<\/i>6\u20138 days emergency shipment to Hong Kong \/ Zhoushan. No old pipe import needed, digital twin prefab.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-99896","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/99896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irwin.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}