The APE Product Review
Product Name	Ultra U
Product Group	Traditional Plastic sheet piling
Material	Recycled PVC
Description	A more traditional trench sheet style U pile, very much the big brother of the Masterpile, this section is thicker, deeper and with quite substantial interlocks.
Max Angle of Rotation	7 Degrees
Best Features	Popular design – one of the first U plastic piles in the UK that is sturdy, but not too enlarged
Cost	Cheap  to Moderate – definitely a value product
Strength	Equivalent to Europile
Drivability	New to range to little experience to date, but has a good symmetry and is quite chunky and so would impact drive well, seems a very rigid section and pan width is large enough to be clamped by an EMV type vibrator.
Typical length used	1,2,3,4 all likely
Interlock pull out resistance	Very good
Stiffness	Very good, but at lengths exceeding 3 metres flexibility may well become an issue
Durability	Very Good resilience excellent suitability to impact hammers
Types of application	As for Europile and Eco Z, would imagine as the U shape is quite standard it would attract bank stabilisation projects more so than any other product – due to the inherent familiarity of its design and it potential to be installed with conventional hammers.