Lead Free

EPS LEAD FREE* CRIMP Water & Gas Dual Pex Plumbing System

Leadfree
EPS Crimp fittings are manufactured from Lead Free DR Brass.
Benefits to You: CLEAN HEALTHY DRINKING WATER
  • Contribute to provide clean healthy drinking water in contact with lead free brass products.
  • AS 4020 Materials in contact with drinking water compliance.
  • Compliance to lead free brass guideline limit under 0.1% lead.
Caring for our ENVIRONMENT
  • Elson lead free brass products offer an environmentally friendly advantage while still maintaining the proven product quality you expect from Elson Australasia. Our specially formulated lead-free brass alloy keeps the other properties you expect from brass the same.
  • Lead free brass can be recycled maintaining the environmental benefits.
Elson EPS LEAD FREE CRIMP Water & Gas Dual Pex plumbing system has been designed with high strength pex pipe for hot and cold water applications & pex-al pipe for gas applications.
Elson uses the term lead free for products that we manufacture with less than 0.1% Pb Brass. We have adopted the United States of America plumbing industry recognized term for Copper alloys containing less than 0.25% Pb as being lead free. Our 99.9% Lead free products meet the More Stringent European Lead Free Guideline of containing less than 0.1% by weight. The Australian Building Codes Board in July 2021 released an advisory notice in regards to upcoming changes to the National Construction Code NCC2022 and future amendments to Australian standards & AS/NZS4020. ABCB also sent out an advisory notice in November 2021. "WaterMark Certification Scheme Advisory Notice Lead free requirements for certain plumbing products" "The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) decided to limit the allowable lead content in plumbing products, which contain copper alloys and are intended for use in contact with drinking water, to a weighted average lead content of not more than 0.25%. Drinking water is defined in the NCC as "water intended primarily for human consumption but which has other domestic uses". The lead free requirements were set out in clause A5G4 (2) of the NCC 2022, Volume Three Public Comment" Elson have been manufacturing 99.9% Lead Free products since 2016. Elson lead Free* copper alloy products are 99.9% Lead Free and contain less than 0.1% Lead by weight.