The APE Product Review
Product Name	Europile
Product Group	Traditional Plastic Sheet Piling
Material	Recycled PVC
Description	This product is an advancement upon the standard Z and is best described as a flat S shape.  Once installed this section provide a flat frontage, with interlocks facing towards the load.  This ensures that the full flange of the interlocks is in contact, rather than just the APEX.
Max Angle of Rotation	15 degrees
Best Features	Whilst still only 300mm wide like the EcoZ, the flat design of this section provide an excellent surface for impact hammers to work upon, and once installed greater contact with whalers.  This subsequently provides more a move even distribution of the loads along the wall through the whaler, compared to the virtual point contact available when using the EcoZ or similar standard pile type products.   The biggest selling feature of the Europile is its water tightness, due primarily to the fact that the interlocks face towards the load, providing full flange contact rather than single edge point contact seen with other Plastic sheet piling.
Cost	Moderate – one of the Value products
Strength	Good around ½ that of the L8 steel trench sheet.
Drivability	Good impact driving due to the points already stated, tends to be vibrated in panels of three, this enables larger vibratory equipment to be used.
Typical length used	1,2,3,4 on occasion 5, 6 and 7m have been used in trenched cut offs
Interlock pull out resistance	Excellent
Stiffness	Good
Durability	Good resilience excellent suitability to impact hammers, position of interlocks also should assist with frontal impacts to the pile wall.
Types of application	Whilst capable of some loaded applications, the Europile is predominantly used in an application that requires more water tightness or interlock integrity.  As an immediate improvement upon the EcoZ it is capable of similar applications and used when users simply want a value product rather than simply a budget product.