• Pipe is a hollow tube whose primary function is to transport material. Meets specific published size
standards.

• Fittings are connections for joining pipe, changing directions, reducing size of lines, closing lines, draining lines.

• Nipple is a piece of pipe cut to length and typically threaded.  A nipple may have several types of
ends, see the specials section.

• Flanges are steel rings designed to join two sections of a piping system by bolting (to a vessel, pump, valve,
fitting or pipe sections).

• Valves are mechanisms to control fluid handling systems.

• Starting stopping flow (gate, ball, plug, butterfly).

• Regulations flow or throttling (globe, butterfly).

• Prevent back blow (check valves).

• Relieving regulating pressure (relief valve).