CASE STUDY For decades, Pipex px ® has been known as an innovator of FRP composites’ fabrication and design. Headquartered in Plymouth, United Kingdom, it also shares its home with the Resin Infusion Center of Excellence (R.I.C.E.). The center possesses one of the country’s largest five-axis CNC machines in use today. Recently, Pipex px ® solutions designed and manufactured two fiber reinforced polymer composites pedestrian footbridges, four landings and three staircases to replace a metallic bridge which had been condemned after a severe storm at the Dover Sea Wall rail line in Kent, UK. Unlike most pedestrian footbridges, these components were designed as a hybrid systems, where pultruded components were assembled with resin infused components, uniting strength and aesthe

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