Early Developments - The 1940s and

A reduction in cost and growth in supplies of thermoplastics came about mainly as a result of massive investment in oil refining and chemical process plant both during and 

Reconstruction of European towns and cities that had suffered wartime destruction constituted massive infrastructure investment and boosted demand for construction materials including utility pipelines. Although iron and steel continued to be the dominant pipe materials the increasing availability of plastics at reducing prices prompted much technical development that created many of the plastic pipe production and application technologies used today. 

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