Merit Brass' commitment to quality for your piping systems continues with our line of unbanded press fittings and valves in copper branded as MeritPress™. Merit's press offering also includes: CopperPress® fittings and valves, StainlessPress® fittings and valves and CarbonPress® fittings. Merit's press offering such as MeritPress™ allow tubes to be joined mechanically without threading or soldering which provides up to 50% in savings on overall project costs.
Merit's MeritPress™ product offering includes elbows, tees, couplings, reducers, caps, adapters, unions, flanges, and valves. MeritPress™ is available in sizes 1/2" - 4" in the EPDM (Water) sealing element. MeritPress™ fittings offer a 50-year limited warranty and valves offer a 5-year limited warranty.
The box and bag labels are color-coded green for water applications indicating the sealing element material. This allows for ease of receipt and helps quickly identify the materials being used for your piping system.
Additionally, MeritPress™ fittings and valves have a working pressure of 300 psi. The temperature range for MeritPress™ fittings and valves is 0°F to 250°F. MeritPress™ is currently certified to IAPMO Z1117, ICC-ED LC1002, NSF/ANSI/CAN 61, NSF/ANSI/CAN 372, and ASME B16.51.
MeritPress™ Benefits & Features
Press connections can be made in the fraction of the time required by other joining methods, and no open flame or flame permit is required. Faster installations translate into significant labor savings. Connections made by pressings are sound, simple, clean, and provide an economical alternative to other means of joining tube.
Anywhere traditional copper fittings are used - plumbing and heating, hot, chilled, and process water systems, and commercial or industrial applications where gas, low pressure steam, or liquids are conveyed.
A press connection can be made in less than a minute within preparing the tube taking 30 seconds or less (deburring and marking insertion depth) and the actual pressing only a few seconds - literally the time it takes to insert the tube and cycle the tool. Unlike other methods, full structural integrity and sealing capability is realized immediately.
