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Charlotte Pipe and Foundry Co. is spending $80 million to open a greenfield plastics pipe plant in Kansas, its seventh nationwide, to expand both geographically and in irrigation markets.

Springfield, Mo.-based United Poly Systems LLC is extruding a new line of HDPE pipe in the same sizes as traditional copper tubes and iron pipes for a range of applications, particularly water uses.