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UNITRACC News Issue: February 2009   

Welcome


Robert Stein

Dear Sir or Madam,

In this Newsletter issue we would like to recommend the new laying instructions in the UNITRACC-area Information provided by Salzgitter Mannesmann Line Pipe GmbH. This instructions contain information about laying and field coating steel pipes with welded and socket joints.

Moreover visit our UNITRACC author gallery. 155 authors are listed here - making it possible for you to contact further experts from all professional areas within the sector.

Becoming an author on UNITRACC is very easy! Send your technical paper about the topic pipeline construction, maintenance and rehabilitation incl. a portrait picture and a short CV to editorial@unitracc.com and then you will be listed in the author gallery in no time!

Enjoy exploring the underground with UNITRACC.

Kind regards,

Dr.-Ing. Robert Stein
(UNITRACC Editor)

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Content

News

The Robbins Company

Dynamic Robbins TBM will Adapt Mid-bore

An extensive hydroelectric project in northeast Turkey will employ a Robbins Main Beam TBM at two different tunnel diameters. Launched in Winter 2008/2009, the 4.8 m (15.8 ft) diameter TBM and bac...
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Herrenknecht AG

Martin Herrenknecht becomes the first European to receive the "Moles Award" in the USA

The renowned association of the US heavy construction industry, "The Moles", has presented the Schwanau entrepreneur Dr. Martin Herrenknecht with the "Moles Award 2009". This makes Martin Herrenkne...
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Borealis AG

Borealis awards innovative polymer prizes to Austrian and Italian scholars

Two students carrying out important research on polyolefins have been recognized by Borealis, a leading provider of innovative, value creating plastics solutions, under its new Student Innovation A...
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HOBAS Engineering GmbH

HOBAS® for a Blue Danube

In Hungary's capital Budapest 600,000 m³ of water run into the Danube daily, 51% of which are completely untreated. This does not only endanger the area's wildlife but also conflicts with the ...
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Insituform Technologies, Inc.

Insituform Awarded US$6.0 Million in Additional Work in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Chesterfield – Insituform Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INSU)  announced that it was awarded an additional US$6.0 million in sewer pipe rehabilitation work for the Cit...
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Ditch Witch Organization

Ditch Witch Organization unveils 300-HP Rock trencher

PERRY, Okla.— The Ditch Witch ® organization announces the release of a 300-horsepower rock trencher: the heavy-duty HT300.
Capable of trenching up to ten feet (3.1 m) deep and 36 ...
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Con Edison

Con Edison installs over 65 miles of new gas main in 2008

NEW YORK – As part of the company’s ongoing infrastructure investment program, Con Edison announced today that it had installed over 65 miles of new natural gas main piping in 2008. In ...
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HOBAS Engineering GmbH

100 Years Modern Water Supply in Stara Zagora, BG

On October 3rd 2008 the town Stara Zagora celebrated 100 years of modern water supply. The first networks, however, were built long before 1908: Stara Zagora with its 120,000 inhabitants is situate...
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The Robbins Company

Robbins EPBs will Link up Chinese Cities

By 2010, China's first ever high-speed, inter-city rail link will shorten travel times between the cities of Guangzhou and Foshan to just 40 minutes. On December 16, 2008, the first of two 6.3 m ...
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American Leak Detection

Newest technology in leak detection and repair provides fast, efficient, non-destructive results

American Leak Detection in Dallas/Fort Worth Specialists Trained on ACE DuraFlo ePIPE system - Continuing to raise the bar with their service offerings, in February 2009 American Leak Detection wil...
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Authors introduce themselves:

Jens Kirste   Author Stars

Dipl.-Ing. Jens Kirste
Technical Sales / Coordination of all foreign activities / Media- and Marketing-work
Trolining GmbH, Troisdorf (Germany)
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Article

Dipl.-Eng. Stefan Herrmann (Schweitzer GmbH), Dipl.-Eng. Jens Kirste (Trolining GmbH)

Rehabilitation of a combined sewage collector within a groundwater protection area by application of the GIPP method

The Entsorgungsverband Saar (EVS) is an association of various municipalities within the Saarland (federal state located in South-West Germany) responsible for the waste water collection and dispos...
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SABIC Innovative Plastics

SABIC Innovative Plastics' Resins Optimize Water Valves with Design Freedom, High Performance and Long Life

BERGEN OP ZOOM, The Netherlands – Because of their exposure to static or fluctuating pressure, high temperatures and various chemicals, water valves have traditionally been made from metals s...
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Calendar

Underground Multi-System Utility Tunnels

11.03.2009 - 12.03.2009

The First International Conference in the developing field of design and construction of underground multi-system utility tunnels (MUT) was initiated and backed by Israeli overnment Ministries, The...
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2009 International No-Dig Conference & Exhibition

29.03.2009 - 03.04.2009

Sponsored by the North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) and the International Society for Trenchless Technology (ISTT)
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All events in February/March

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New on UNITRACC

Laying instructions
for steel pipes

Instructions

The different UNITRACC instructions* provided by UNITRACC supporters lead you fast and precisely step by step through the construction or rehabilitation tasks that have to be solved by considering the present situation on the construction site.

* In parts the free and non-binding GUEST registration is needed.

 

UNITRACC

Award:
Selected Landmark 2007

Finalist:
 Medida-Prix 2004

Award:
 Europäischer E-Learning Award 2004

Award:
 NO-DIG Award 2005

Sponsored by:
 German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Technology

The Association of the German Building Industry:
Association of the German Building Industry.

 
 

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