Why steel

  When you install a sprinkler system, you don’t control how a real fire will behave.

  That’s why, for decades, steel has been the default material: non-combustible, predictable at high temperatures, and trusted by AHJs, insurers, and engineers.

  Contractors don’t walk away from steel because it fails in a fire.

  They walk away because of corrosion and MIC leaks.

Why some projects moved away from steel.

  The push toward nonmetallic pipe (like CPVC) has one main driver:

owners and contractors are tired of leaks, repairs, and angry phone calls.

  Nonmetallic pipe can reduce some corrosion risk, but it also brings trade-offs:

- It’s a thermoplastic, not steel

- It has tighter limits on use, exposure, and handling

- It’s more sensitive to impact and chemical compatibility issues

  In other words, you trade corrosion worries for new questions about how the pipe will behave over its life and in a severe fire.

If corrosion is the only reason to leave steel, we fix that

  Our approach keeps the material everyone already trusts—steel—and targets the real cause of trouble inside wet systems.

1. Clean-interior steel pipe

   We start with a proprietary internal cleaning process to remove fabrication residues and contamination where MIC and internal corrosion begin.

2. Designed for controlled internal atmosphere

   Our pipe is part of a program that works with nitrogen inerting, keeping oxygen low to slow corrosion over the long term.

3. Backed by a 15-year leak warranty

   Based on our testing and field experience, we offer a 15-year limited leak warranty to the building owner for MIC-related through-wall leaks when the system is installed and maintained under our program.

You keep steel’s fire performance, and we take responsibility for the corrosion risk.

Steel becomes the obvious choice again

  Once corrosion is under control, the decision is simple:

- Steel gives maximum confidence in real fire exposure

- Steel is universally understood and accepted by AHJs and insurers

- Steel tolerates abuse, impact, and future changes better than thermoplastics

- And now, steel can come with a 15-year leak warranty, not just a hope that pinholes won’t show up

  So when someone asks, “Why not use plastic?”, you can answer: Steel is the only pipe material that never asks us to compromise on fire exposure—and with this system, we don’t have to compromise on corrosion either.