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Another initiative in the effort to reach out to engineers
is JM Eagle’s online Continuing Education Courses. In
most states and jurisdictions, engineers and contrac-
tors need to obtain continuing education credits in
order to maintain their professional licenses in good
standing. So the company has partnered with a na-
tionally accredited, online, educational site. By the end
of this year, there will be four online training courses,
live and available 24 hours a day, seven days a week,
to the site’s users. The first course is “The Plastic Pipe
Solution for Water Infrastructure Failures.” It provides
an overview of the modern water infrastructure, with
discussions on common pipe materials, causes and
impacts of pipe failure, and the benefits of plastic pipe
as a durable, low-cost solution.
Finally, JM Eagle has an unprecedented 50-year war-
ranty on its water distribution and transmission, and
force sewer main products. If its thermal plastic pipes
do not maintain their performance for the next 50
years, the company will replace them. No other pipe
manufacturer makes this guarantee and it’s hard to
believe that this initiative won’t attract the attention of
numerous cost-constrained municipalities across the
land.
At all JM Eagle plants, the company practices what it
preaches regarding its stated mission to help preserve
precious natural resources and protect the Earth.
Over the past several years it has spent approximately
$150 million modernizing, upgrading, and “greening”
its operations. Thanks to the company’s carefully en-
gineered manufacturing processes, its PVC requires
lower amounts of water and lower temperatures to
produce than competing products. It follows stringent,
audited, air quality standards, guards against ground
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