Company Introduction

Creative Group was established in 1993 with a clear vision of the future. In this age of highest quality and
technical standards it was essential for us to set our outright goals in order to be a symbol of state of the
art technology involved in manufacturing of Fiberglass Filament Winding Piping System for Tube Well,
Sewerage, Water Supply and many other industrial applications, Fuse Links and Fuse Cutouts, Electrical
Power distribution & transmission products ranging from PCC Poles, Spun Poles, Steel Towers, Line
Hardware fittings, accessories and Energy Meters.

Creative Group comprises of the following companies:

1) Creative Engineering (Pvt.) Ltd.
2) Vision Engineering (Pvt.) Ltd.
3) Creative Electronics (Pvt.) Ltd.

Creative Group is an ISO 9001:2000 Certified engineering, trading and services organization with special
expertise in

This escalating demand for GRP/FRP Piping has prompted us to address the marketing needs for the
quality conscious segment. This was vision and mission behind the founding of Creative Group. The
target is to provide not only Reinforced Plastics Pipe & Fittings, but also provides other product such as
FRP Water/Chemical Tank, FRP Cooling Tower Fan Blades, FRP Sheets, Pultruded Products, FRP
Prefabricated Guard/Security Rooms, FRP Ladders, FRP Furniture and many other items as per
customers requirement and specifications. We also have Custom Design and Fabrication products to cater
variety kind of demand and need in this special and unique industry.

Creative Group consists of a team of experience work force to provide a wide range of composite
engineering work, services and products to satisfy and meet the customer requirements. Throughout the
year, we continue to improve our work skill, expand and outspread our product line & quality to get
customer’s satisfaction.
Glass Reinforced Polyester (GRP) Pipes

Glass Reinforced Polyester pipes are manufactured from polyester resins and fibrous glass
reinforcements and depending on the type with inorganic filler. The phenomenal design of GRP pipes is
to provide the product with enhanced properties along with required margin of safety that will enable
the pipes to perform adequately after an extended period of operation (more than 50 years) under typical
conditions.

GRP or Glass Re-enforced Polyester pipes are widely being used in recent years when corrosion resistant
pipes are required at reasonable costs. GRP can be used as a lining material for conventional pipes which
are subject to corrosion. Fiber glass pipe can resist external and internal corrosion whether the corrosion
mechanism is galvanic or chemical in nature.

Our present production line at 149, Sundar Industrial Estate, Lahore has the capacity to produce GRP
pipes with diameters ranging from 300mm to 2600mm.

Fiber Glass Reinforced Pipes

Fiber Glass Reinforced Plastic Pipe is a matrix or composite of glass fiber, polyester resin and fillers.
These pipes possess better strength durability high tensile strength low density and are virtually inert
Fiber Glass pressure pipes are intended to be manufactured in diameters up to 2600mm and length up to
12m. These pipes are now being taken up for manufacture in Pakistan. Standard specifications have been
formed in accordance to the available ASTM/AWWA standards.
Structure of GRP Pipes

In the FRP with high tensile strength, the fiberglass plays the role of reinforcement whiles the wear-
resistance and pressure –resistance synthetic resin is used for bonding the fiber as the basic materials.
Putting together, they commonly play the role of being in finished form and load carrier.
The wall structure of the FRP pipe is normally consisting of two parts:
Structure layer: make the continuous glass fiber woven of which is cross winded according to the design
angle as the reinforcing frame. Make the synthetic resin as the bonding basic materials.
Among them, the weight of fiberglass occupied about 65-70% & weight of resin about 30-35%. In order to
strengthen the structural stiffness, the resin and silicon sand paste could be added in the middle layer of
fiberglass filament winding layer.
Inner liner-this is a layer of anti corrosion and leakage proof it is formed by two parts.

1. Interior surface layer-this is a layer directly contacts the medium and it is corrosion resistance and the
first layer of leakage proof. The content of resin in this layer is about 90%.

2. The second interior layer-it is formed by chopped strand mat reinforcement and anti corrosion resin;
the content of the gel coat is above 70% and about 2mm thickness. This is second protection to anti
leakage of the medium.

GRP pipe is used for a system requiring highly non-corrosive and very strong stiffness. And, due to its
structure, it has very long life time, almost forever. Basic material (resin) and supporting material (glass
fiber) are used reasonably and this structure makes the lifetime very long with high stiffness. Especially,
GRP pipe can be fabricated appropriately according to liquid and system by selecting proper resin and
fabrication method for best service with the system.

• Liner Layer
C-glass fiber is used so it has excellent non-corrosion property against chemical liquids. This
layers remains in direct contact with the conveyed fluid passing thorough the pipes.
Furthermore, liner makes the inner surface particularly smooth and chemical additives could be
added as per requirement of end use for these pipes. Inner liner is composed of one glass veil and
glass mat impregnated with resin to form the structure.
• Structural Layer
The purpose of this layer is to make the pipe capable enough to resist the stresses due to design
conditions (stresses due to internal or external pressures, flexural strengths due to external load
etc.). Thickness of this layer depends upon the design conditions. E-glass fiber is used and it is
supporting layer of GRP pipe with mechanical and physical stiffness.

• External Layer
It protects GRP pipe from aging and deformation originated from environmental factor such as
ultraviolet rays. This layer is composed of pure resin without glass reinforcements. It guarantees
the outer layer to be well finished and free of protruding fibers.
Applicable Standards for Main Applications
For Filament Wound Fiberglass Pipes ASTM D-2996
For Gravity Sewers ASTM D-3262
For Water Pipes AWWA C-950

Stiffness
The Stiffness for GRP pipes produced by Creative Engineering is selected from one of the three different
stiffness clauses based on the burial depth of these pipes. Stiffness class represents the pipe’s initial
specific stiffness (EI/D3) in N/m2.

Stiffness Class (SN) Stiffness (N/m2)

2500 2500
5000 5000
10000 10000
There are other stiffness classes that are available on customized orders depending upon the native soil
and burial conditions.

Maximum Cover
Stiffness Class (SN) (meters)
2500 8
5000 12
10000 16
Pressure
The GRP pipes are available in the following pressure classes.
Pressure Class (PN) Pressure Rating (bar)
1 (gravity) 1 (gravity)
6 6
10 10
16 16
20 20
25 25
32 32
Lengths
Pipes are available in standard lengths of 6m and 12m. Customized lengths are available on request
depending upon the nature of project.
Joints
GRP pipes are typically jointed through GRP coupling or hydraulic sealing for bell and spigot ends by
means of one or two Elastomeric Gaskets (O-Rings), adjusted on the circumferential grooves after
machining the spigot end of the pipes. Whereas, for plain end pipes, sealing is achieved by sleeve joints
or chemical welding that assures the same strength and impermeability.

Flange jointing technique can be used as well to make connections with steel allowing easy assembling/
disassembling with other lines and structures. Customized requirements can be entertained on request.

Bell and Spigot Joint

Sleeve Joint

Flange Joint
GRP Pipes Fittings & Accessories

GRP accessories/fittings can be produced using the same material and standard approach that is being
followed for other GRP pipe. The most intrinsic benefit of this system is to easily fabricate wide
assortment of fittings according to the customized or standard requirements of the system.

Modifications and amendments could be made to these under mentioned accessories that would make
them feasible to be implemented on any situation.

Segmented Bends

Concentric & Eccentric Segmented Reducers

 Segmented Tees
Segmented Branches 45 0

Saddles

Flanges
PIPE DIMENSIONS

Depending on diameters, the GRP pipes being manufactured at our facility are available in nominal
pressure classes between 1 BAR to 12 BAR and more depending on the project requirements. We feel
committed to high quality standards and therefore ensure that all pipes are being tested for 100%
pressure that is twice their nominal pressure.

2,500 STIS PIPE

B Class (6 BAR PIPE) C Class (9 BAR PIPE) D Class (12 BAR PIPE)
DIAMETER THICKNESS WEIGHT THICKNESS WEIGHT THICKNESS WEIGHT
80 4.5 2.2 4.6 2.2 4.6 2.2
100 4.5 2.7 4.6 2.7 4.6 2.7
150 4.5 3.9 4.6 4.0 4.6 4.0
200 4.5 5.2 4.6 5.3 4.6 5.3
250 4.5 6.5 5.2 6.7 5.2 6.7
300 4.6 7.9 5.2 9.1 5.2 9.1
350 4.4 8.8 4.4 8.9 4.6 9.1
400 4.7 10.8 4.8 10.9 4.9 11.3
450 5.3 13.6 5.2 13.5 5.5 14.0
500 5.8 16.5 5.8 16.5 6.0 17.0
600 6.7 23.0 6.7 23.1 7.0 23.9
700 7.7 30.7 7.7 30.8 8.0 32.1
800 8.6 39.5 8.7 39.6 9.1 41.5
900 9.6 49.3 9.6 49.5 10.1 52.0
1000 10.5 60.2 10.6 60.5 11.1 63.7
1100 11.5 72.2 11.6 72.6 12.2 76.4
1200 12.5 85.3 12.5 85.7 13.2 90.4
1300 13.4 99.5 13.5 99.9 14.2 105.5
1400 14.4 114.8 14.4 115.3 15.2 121.8
1500 15.3 131.1 15.4 131.7 16.2 139.0
1600 16.3 148.5 16.3 149.3 17.3 158.0
1700 17.2 167.0 17.3 167.7 18.3 177.6
1800 18.2 186.7 18.3 187.6 19.3 198.6
 1900 19.1 207.4 19.2 208.3 20.3 220.4
2000 20.1 229.0 20.2 230.2 21.4 244.0
2100 21.0 252.0 21.1 253.2 22.4 268.5
2200 22.0 275.9 22.1 277.3 23.4 293.9
2300 22.9 300.9 23.0 302.4 24.4 321.0
2400 23.9 327.0 24.0 328.7 25.4 348.5

5,000 STIS PIPE

B Class (6 BAR PIPE) C Class (9 BAR PIPE) D Class (12 BAR PIPE)
DIAMETER THICKNESS WEIGHT THICKNESS WEIGHT THICKNESS WEIGHT
80 4.5 2.2 4.6 2.2 4.6 2.2
100 4.5 2.7 4.6 2.7 4.6 2.7
150 4.5 3.4 4.6 4.0 4.6 4.0
200 4.5 5.2 4.6 5.3 4.6 5.3
250 4.5 6.5 5.2 6.7 5.2 6.7
300 4.6 7.9 5.2 9.1 5.2 9.1
350 5.4 10.9 5.5 11.0 5.8 11.6
400 5.8 13.4 5.9 13.5 6.2 14.2
450 6.5 16.7 6.5 16.8 6.9 17.9
500 7.1 20.5 7.1 20.4 7.6 21.9
600 8.4 28.8 8.5 29.1 8.9 30.8
700 9.6 38.6 9.7 38.9 10.3 41.4
800 10.9 49.8 11.0 50.2 11.6 53.4
900 12.1 62.3 12.2 62.8 13.2 67.9
1000 13.3 76.3 13.4 76.9 14.5 83.3
1100 14.6 91.7 14.7 92.6 15.9 100.2
1200 15.8 108.4 15.9 109.4 17.3 118.9
1300 17.0 126.7 17.2 127.7 18.6 138.8
1400 18.3 146.4 18.4 147.7 20.0 160.3
1500 19.5 167.3 19.7 168.9 21.4 183.6
1600 20.7 189.7 20.9 191.6 22.7 208.6
1700 22.0 213.6 22.2 215.7 24.1 234.7
1800 23.2 238.8 23.4 240.9 25.5 262.6
1900 24.4 265.4 24.6 267.9 26.8 292.1
2000 25.7 293.7 25.9 296.3 28.2 323.0
2100 26.9 323.0 27.1 326.3 29.5 355.4
2200 28.1 353.9 28.4 357.3 30.9 389.6
2300 29.3 386.1 29.6 389.9 32.3 425.9
2400 30.6 420.0 30.9 424.0 33.7 463.0

10,000 STIS PIPE

B Class (6 BAR PIPE) C Class (9 BAR PIPE) D Class (12 BAR PIPE)
DIAMETER THICKNESS WEIGHT THICKNESS WEIGHT THICKNESS WEIGHT
80.0 3.5 1.7 3.5 1.7 3.5 1.7
100.0 3.5 2.0 3.5 2.0 3.5 2.0
150.0 4.7 4.1 4.7 4.1 4.7 4.1
 200.0 5.3 6.1 5.3 6.1 5.3 6.1
250.0 6.5 9.4 6.5 9.4 6.5 9.4
300.0 7.6 13.2 7.6 13.2 7.6 13.2
350.0 6.8 13.7 6.9 13.9 7.2 14.5
400.0 7.4 16.9 7.5 17.2 7.8 18.1
450.0 8.2 21.2 8.3 21.4 8.8 22.8
500.0 9.0 26.0 8.9 25.7 9.8 28.2
600.0 10.7 37.0 10.9 37.5 11.7 40.5
700.0 12.3 49.7 12.5 50.3 13.7 55.2
800.0 14.0 64.2 14.1 65.1 15.5 71.6
900.0 15.6 80.8 15.8 81.7 17.3 89.8
1000.0 17.2 99.1 17.5 100.3 19.3 110.9
1100.0 18.9 119.3 19.1 120.7 21.2 134.0
1200.0 20.5 141.3 20.7 143.1 23.0 158.6
1300.0 22.1 165.0 22.4 167.6 24.8 185.8
1400.0 23.7 191.0 24.1 193.7 26.7 214.9
1500.0 25.4 218.7 25.7 221.7 28.4 245.6
1600.0 27.0 248.2 27.4 251.7 30.3 279.5
1700.0 28.6 279.5 29.0 283.6 32.1 314.5
1800.0 30.3 313.0 30.7 317.1 34.0 352.3
1900.0 31.9 347.9 32.3 352.9 35.8 392.0
2000.0 33.5 384.9 34.0 390.5 37.6 433.0
2100.0 35.1 423.7 35.6 429.7 39.5 477.2
2200.0 36.7 464.5 37.3 471.0 41.3 523.2
2300.0 38.4 507.4 38.9 514.6 43.1 570.8
2400.0 40.0 551.8 40.6 559.5 44.9 620.5
Merits of GRP Pipe Applications
Glass reinforced Polyester pipes represent the ideal solution for the abduction of any kind of water,
chemicals, affluent and sewers, because they combine the advantage of corrosion resistance, typical of
plastics, with a mechanical strength which can be compared with the steel one. Typical properties that
result in advantages in G.R.P. pipes applications can be summarized as follows:

• Higher mechanical resistance due to the glass

reinforcement.

• Corrosion resistance, both of the external wall

and internal wall in contact with the conveyed
fluid. No protections such as coating, painting or
cathodic are needed. GRP pipes are resistant to
nearly all chemicals even at much higher
temperatures (up to 170 °C) than other plastic
materials.

• Smoothness of the internal wall that minimizes

the head losses and avoids the formation of

deposits on the other hand minimizes the
slope.

• Very long life, virtually infinite, of the

material which does not need maintaining.

• Absolute impermeability of pipes and joints

both from external to internal and vice-versa.

• Low weight of pipes lengths that allows for

the use of light laying and transport means.

• Length of sections larger than other materials ones.

• Easy installation procedures because laying of GRP pipes is a simple operation which can be
done in short periods of time both above and below ground, since spigot and socket joints enable
fast and reliable assembling.

• Workability of the material on sites employing simple equipment.

• Possibility of nesting of different diameters of pipe thus allowing additional saving in transport
operations.
• Water supply pipes 100 - 2600 mm dia. From 25 bar to 10 bar according to dia, using
vinylester, bisphenolic & isophthalic resin and bell and spigot joint with double 0-ring
designed according to international standards (ASTM-AWWA). Low pressure pipes
could be sand filled in order to reach a better stiffness and lower cost.

• Sewerage system 300-2600 mm dia. With pressure up to 6 bar isophthalic resin and bell
and spigot joint with double O-ring. These pipes can be sand filled up to 60% with a
substantial reduction in costs and improvement in stiffness, designed according to international
standards (ASTM - AWWA)
GRP Pipe Installation
FRP pipes being light in weight can be easily loaded or unloaded by slings pliable stripes of ropes. A pipe
can be lifted with only one support point or two support points placed about 4 meter a part. Excavation
of trench and back filling of material is similar to that in the case of CI and MS pipes.

It is found out after having considerable experience that properly compacted granular materials are ideal
for backfilling pipe, including GRP pipes. Despite this fact, in an effort to reduce the cost of installing
pipes, the excavated trench soils are used as pipe zone backfill. Some burial limitations have to be taken
care of at the time of installation of GRP pipes to avoid any unwanted circumstances.

Practically there are many different factors that could affect the installation of these pipes. Trench cross
section terminology is shown in figure below:

Figure: Installation of GRP pipes

Installation types
There are two different types of buried
installation are available for the engineer to
consider. These factors during installation and
constraints have to be carefully adopted by the
engineers for proper completion of installation
procedure.

Above Ground Installations

The design of an aboveground installation is
highly dependent on the properties of the
specific pipe used. Recognizing this, the
engineers have developed very detailed
aboveground installation instructions for GRP
pipe, stiffness class (SN) 5000 or higher. These
instructions cover cradle spacing and design,
hold-down straps, allowable coupling rotation
and other relevant information. For the use of
GRP pipe on steep slopes (over 20 degrees), an
above ground installation is generally
recommended.

Underground Installations
GRP pipes with rubber O-rings or flanges can be
used for joining spigot and bell end can easily be
adopted for underground installation. For
standard procedure and practices, tranches
should be made properly to save the overheads
of leakage and breakage of underground joints.

Sub-Aqueous Installations
GRP pipe and couplings, using the rubber
sealing gaskets with marine harness lugs, are an excellent system choice for sub-aqueous installations.
The outstanding internal and external corrosion resistance of these products, together with their light
weight and ease of joining are very effectively utilized. The standard 12-meter length of pipe will reduce
the number of underwater joints to be made.