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UNITRACC News Issue: December 2008    

Welcome


Robert Stein

Dear Sir or Madam,

December has arrived and with it the last issue of the UNITRACC Newsletter in 2008. This is where we would like to use the opportunity to thank you for continuously sending us interesting news, expert articles, professional comments and general feedback. With your loyalty and support you are an important contributor for the expansion of UNITRACC. Thank you very much!

As a token of our appreciation we have a special Christmas offer for you:
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The UNITRACC-Team is looking forward to another exciting year and they will do the very best providing you with the quality expert platform, which you are used to.

We would like to wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a happy and successful New Year.

Enjoy exploring the underground with UNITRACC.

Kind regards,

Dr.-Ing. Robert Stein
(UNITRACC Editor)

*Offer applies for copies ordered till 31 January 2009 plus shipping fee. Please refer to special Christmas offer in the comment field of the order form.

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Content

News

S & P Consult GmbH

S & P Consult, Participation in German-Turkish Wastewater Symposium in Istanbul

The German-Turkish Wastewater Symposium and the corresponding cooperation forum "Treatment of municipal and industrial Wastewater", with over 100 participants, took place on the 22nd and...
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Underground Solutions, Inc.

Robert Walker Joins Underground Solutions, Inc. As Vice President Engineering Applications

Poway, CA - Underground Solutions, Inc. announced that Robert Walker, P.E. has joined the company as a Vice President Engineering Applications. Mr. Walker was formerly Executive Director of the Uni...
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HOCHTIEF Aktiengesellschaft

New orders worth more than EUR 455 m in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Thailand: 3.7 kilometer long drainage tunnels in Hong Kong

HOCHTIEF - via its subsidiary Leighton and its participating interests - has secured new orders in Abu Dhabi, Hong Kong and Thailand which are together worth more than EUR 455 million. The Al Habto...
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TT UK Ltd.

Petrology On-Line with the world's first 40t all-terrain Grundowinch

As a leading Trenchless Technology equipment specialist manufacturer and supply partner to many major UK Contracting, Civil and Utility organisations, TT-UK were the ideal choice when Petrology n...
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Thames Water Ltd.

New web map helps customers keep track of planned work

As Thames Water plans the largest investment ever by a UK water company, customers can now find out how they are likely to benefit.
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SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics Expands Investment in Fluid Engineering Center to Develop High-Performance Materials for Water Systems

Growing concerns about health and safety risks and increasingly high costs of metal in fluid handling systems are prompting the use of plastic pipes, faucets, valves, boilers and other components. ...
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VINCI

VINCI wins a tunnel construction contract in the United States

VINCI Construction Grands Projets, leader (65 %) of a joint-venture with the American contractor Frontier-Kemper Constructors Inc. (35 %), recently signed a contract with the City of Detroit (Detro...
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The Robbins Company

Three Robbins EPBMs to Improve Mexico City Drainage

Mexico City, founded on what was once an island in the middle of a lake, is sinking at the rate of 10 cm (4 in) per year. Over the last 30 years, the city’s critical drainage lines have lost ...
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Borealis AG

Launch of new concept for production of single-stage peroxidecrosslinked polyethylene pipes with Borealis BorPEX™

A group of major European equipment technology developers and material producers, together with Borealis, a leading provider of innovative value-creating plastics solutions, have joined forces to d...
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Insituform Technologies Inc.

Insituform Wins $10.3M CIPP Project in Connecticut: Over 12 months of trenchless sewer rehabilitation work in Connecticut positions Insituform for area growth

Insituform Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INSU) was awarded a $10.3 million sewer contract in November from the Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) for the rehabilitation of...
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Article

Peter Oppinger (VAG Armaturen GmbH, Germany)

Replacement of valves in the gate valve house of the Schwammenauel dam and hydropower station

The Rur dam with the Schwammenauel hydropower station is located in the Nordeifel mountains near the city of Heimbach. With its storage volume of 203 million m³ it is one of Germany's largest ...
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Steve Catha, Ray Burke and Melvin Kanninen

An Innovative New Technology for Trenchless Rehabilitation of High Pressure Gas/Liquid Transmission Pipelines

Smart Pipe® is a recently completed, innovative, new technology that has the potential for significantly reducing the cost, public inconvenience, and environmental threats associated with rect...
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Calendar

Pipeline Rehab 2009

19.01.2009 - 21.01.2009

This event will attract in excess of 1,500 of the industries leading professionals from across theregion and the globe in discussion of the very latest solutions for the maintenance and reliability...
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All events in December/January

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Special Christmas Offer

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The must-have for your reference library!

Trenchless Technology for Installation of Cables and Pipelines

Trenchless Technology

Now only 99 € (120 € regular price).

Practical guideline for the Application of Microtunnelling Methods for the ecological, cost-minimised Installation of Drains and Sewers

Practical Guideline

Now only 29 € (39 € regular price).

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*Offer applies for copies ordered till 31 January 2009 plus shipping fee. Please refer to special offer in the comment field of the order form.

 

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Selected Landmark 2007

Finalist:
 Medida-Prix 2004

Award:
 Europäischer E-Learning Award 2004

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 NO-DIG Award 2005

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 German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology

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