Vinyl sheet piling with gaskets recognized as the Product of the Year in a prestigious industry awards competition.

The Pietrucha Group was awarded the prestigious TYTAN award in recognition of our vinyl sheet piling with gaskets technology.

Vinyl sheet piles have been known for over 30 years with the product first introduced to the US market in the 1980s. The technology has been gaining more and more supporters, especially in projects related to sealing and strengthening flood embankments. The plummeting prices of steel and conventional materials have recently contributed to an even greater interest in vinyl sheet piles, which have also been manufactured in Europe by the Pietrucha Group since 2006. The distinctive feature of the sheet piles from Poland is an innovative solution consisting in improving the existing manufacturing technologies by integrating the vinyl sheet profiles with a soft PVC gasket.

„Our goal was primarily to reduce the clearance compensation in the locks of vinyl sheet piles, but not at the cost of reducing their dimensions, which could increase the risk of damaging the lock when installing the sheet pile in the ground. Instead, we focused on adding a specialized gasket that, under pressure, will adjust to the clearance in the lock, tightly closing the filtration path of water or pollutants” Jacek Gralewski Head of R&D at the  Pietrucha Group.

Thanks to this innovative addition, the scope of projects where vinyl sheet piles may be applied extended and the technology results in instant tightness immediately upon installation, without the need to wait for the soil clogging effect to occur in locks or for hardening of the cement-ground mixture.

The gasket is not glued or stuck onto the lock in any way, but is thermally combined during the co-extrusion of the profile. As a result, it becomes a completely integral part of the entire sheet pile and there is no threat of damaging the gasket during the installation of sheet piles in the ground.

TYTAN are recognized industry awards in the field of geoengineering, awarded by Jury composed of experts representing leading academic centres, research institutes and industry associations. The awards were founded in 2003 are awarded by the INŻYNIERIA Publishing House every year during a special gala held as part of the Geoengineering in Construction conference.