As the SIGMA Raven HDPE product line has grown, many municipalities have requested custom elements to meet their specifications. Because SIGMA has fabrication facilities in both Idaho and Alabama, with fully trained roto-molding technical experts, they are able to manufacture HDPE meter enclosures to custom specifications.
Territory Sales Manager Wayne Pederson explains, “Different municipalities and different climates have different needs, and we are able to accommodate all of these considerations. Places that have long, cold, snowy winters need a deeper meter pit or stacking meter boxes to deal with snow and ground frost, whereas warmer climates warrant non-stacking meter boxes. We have done a lot of work for the Cities of Tacoma, Washington, and Long Beach, California, resulting in their standardizing most of their meter boxes to SIGMA, and using the non stacking model.” In addition to weather issues, advancing technology has an affect on this product line. Wayne continues: “Metering has changed; in the past, people would manually remove the lids and read the meters. Now this is largely done digitally with a signal sent from the meter to a radio tower. In the past, the lids were made of ductile iron, but that interferes with the radio signal, so these all have to be changed to HDPE. SIGMA manufactures a complete HDPE lid and box combination, which is really revolutionizing the industry. These sets are H20 traffic rated, and have been very well received in the market place.”
For information on SIGMA Raven HDPE product line, please contact your regional office. http://www.sigmaco.com/usa/