Central Products is proud to work in the pipe fittings industry. Our industry is essential for providing water, natural gas, electricity, and cable for citizens and businesses around the world. We create the fittings for the pipelines that distribute these items from where they are stored, or generated, to the end users.
Below the surface of the United States is a complex web of cables and pipelines. Millions and millions of miles of tubes that carry gas, oil, drinking water, waste water, electricity, television wires, and Internet cables. Whether they are large or small, the pipes that make up these millions of miles of pipeline must be connected. We are the ones who provide the fittings to make those connections happen.
Water, natural gas, electricity, and cable products move across two large networks - The Transportation Network and the Distribution Network. The Transportation Network consists of large pipelines that move the products across open spaces of country. The Distribution Network consists of small pipes that move the products from the larger transportation pipes to the end users. Thousands of different kinds of fittings are required to securely connect all the pipes in the transport and distribution networks. Central produces over 3000 different fittings to meet the needs of today's market.
WHY WE ARE NEEDED Central products has improved the pipe fitting industry with the use of plastic technology. In the last one hundred years, pipelines were composed of materials susceptible to corrosion and leakage, materials such as steel, concrete, iron, clay, and plastic. Central Products' polyethylene plastic fittings tremendously increase the durability and life of pipe fittings. For this reason, 80% of our business is in PE fittings
One key fitting central offers is a transition fitting. To keep from having to replace an entire network of steel pipes Central produces a transition fitting which allows a steel system to transfer to a plastic system. Central's own patented process joins the very different materials of steel and polyethylene into one fitting.
Our fittings can range anywhere from 1/4" in diameter to twenty feet -- some of the largest transition fittings in the world. Central's annual sales have been in the $75-80 Million range the last several years (and growing!). Central's Executive Staff(click here to learn about our executive staff)