Plumbing Market Solutions
Mercury Plastics helps plumbing manufacturers and OEMs improve reliability, reduce leak points, and streamline installation with PEX tubing, engineered connection solutions, and vertically integrated production that combines extrusion, forming, overmolding, fabrication, and in-house electron beam cross-linking.
Innovative Thermoplastic Solutions to Modern Plumbing Challenges
Plumbing components and water conveyance systems face constant performance and compliance pressure. Your products have to deliver long service life while navigating:
Leak Prevention and Connection Integrity
Every joint, clamp, or fitting is a potential failure point. Mercury focuses on one-piece fluid paths and connection designs engineered to reduce leak risks.
Potable Water Requirements and Material Safety
Materials and assemblies must meet applicable potable water standards and certification expectations.
Harsh Real-World Conditions
Plumbing components must withstand temperature swings, pressure spikes (including water hammer), abrasion, corrosion, and chemical exposure from household chemicals.
Installation Speed and Labor Constraints
Contractors and OEM lines need solutions that install quickly, reduce steps, and minimize specialized tools.
Cost, Supply Chain, and Scalability
Programs need consistent quality, stable supply, and manufacturing partners that can scale without sacrificing performance.
Plumbing Applications
Mercury Plastics manufactures thermoplastic parts and systems used across residential, commercial, and OEM plumbing applications, including:
PEX plumbing tubing for potable water distribution and related assemblies (industrial, commercial, and residential).
Plumbing connection lines engineered for dependable, leak-free performance with one-piece fluid path designs.
Supply lines and hook-ups designed for quick installation and durability (examples include double-ended hook-ups and specialty hook-up styles).
Specialized tubing such as oxygen barrier tubing for hydronic systems (helps reduce corrosion of metal components).
Connection systems and fittings designed for water and fluid systems in adjacent equipment and OEM use cases.
Proven Products Designed for the Plumbing Industry
Mercury Plastics has a long history of turning bold ideas into proven products. Years of dedication to solving client challenges have led to proprietary technologies that are now recognized across the industry.
Click-Connex Connections
Durable, leak-free, tool-free tube connections that simplify installation.
Merflex® PEX OT® Plumbing Tubing
Durable, leak-free, tool-free tube connections that simplify installation.
Our Approach
Integrated Plastics Production That Works As a System
Plumbing products rarely rely on a single process. They demand tight control across material selection, geometry, joining, and finishing. Mercury’s advantage is the ability to combine multiple plastics capabilities in a single manufacturing flow, reducing handoffs and supporting faster development cycles.
Extrusion (Profile and Tubing)
As a large custom profile and tubing extruder, Mercury produces consistent tubing and profiles across a wide range of materials used in plumbing and fluid handling.
Electron Beam Crosslinking
Mercury operates dedicated electron beam processing with long-standing experience and expanded capability, using cross-linking to improve key material properties that matter in plumbing performance (strength, durability, chemical resistance, dimensional stability, and more).
Forming & Fabrication
When routing through tight spaces or eliminating joints, formed tubing can replace multi-part assemblies. Fabrication steps like cutting, welding, and secondary operations help deliver installation-ready components.
Injection Overmolding
Overmolding can add end detail, integrate features, and join components without conventional connecting techniques like gluing, clamping, or crimping. This supports lower assembly cost and can reduce leak points.
Air-Core® Molding
Fewer suppliers, fewer joints, more repeatable performance, and a production partner that can support concept-to-scale manufacturing under one roof.
Plumbing Gallery
Water Heater Dip Tube
Water Heater Dip Tube
Water Heater Dip Tube
Water Heater Dip Tube
Faucet Waterway
Faucet Waterway
Faucet Piece
Faucet Piece
Faucet Piece
Faucet Piece
Drain Tube
Drain Tube
Drain Tube
Drain Tube
Engineering Partnership From Concept Through Production
No two projects are the same, and that’s exactly where our team excels. Our engineers work as an extension of your team to:
- Evaluate performance challenges and identify root causes
- Recommend materials and processes based on mechanical, thermal, and chemical requirements
- Prototype rapidly to validate concepts
- Integrate multiple manufacturing steps (extrusion + forming + overmolding + cross-linking) into a single, optimized solution
- Scale cost-effectively from early samples to high-volume production
This cross-disciplinary engineering approach is what enables Mercury Plastics to design custom solutions that achieve better performance at a lower overall system cost.
Plumbing Industry Resources
Looking for standards, associations, and technical guidance? These organizations support best practices and compliance across the plastics plumbing industry.
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Related Industry: Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS)
Many of the same engineering challenges found in plumbing applications also exist inside Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), where reliability, thermal stability, and leak-free fluid management are critical to system performance and safety.
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