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	Jun 22, 2005 News Herrenknecht AG World's largest tunnel boring machine accepted by the customers. The Herrenknecht Mega TBM will excavate a road tunnel in Madrid. The Herrenknecht EPB Shield S-300 is the world’s largest TBM with truly unique features in terms of engineering. To master the world’s largest excavation diameter in challenging ground conditions, Herrenknecht engineers developed a so far unique cutting wheel concept especially for this project. It consists of a 7m-diameter central cutting wheel and an outer cutting wheel, located on the same level, with a maximum excavation diameter of 15.20m.
	Jul 07, 2008 News TERRA AG Big-Boy arrives in South Africa Trenchless Technologies CC, based in Johannesburg, was founded in 1991 and has been the TERRA distributor in Southern Africa since 1993. They undertake several kilometres of pipe and cable laying using HDD as well as some 30 kilometres of trenchless rehabilitation works annually.
	Sep 29, 2006 News Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH S & P - Company Reorganisation Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH becomes holding company and incorporates two newly founded subsidiaries. Since the engineering company Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH was founded in 1994, the company has been growing steadily. In order to cope with the manifold fields of interests, responsibilities and requirements within the branch of pipeline construction and maintenance, two subsidiaries have now been founded besides the already existing companies Visaplan GmbH and CargoCap Gmbh: S&P Consult GmbH and Knowledge Factory GmbH. Functioning as a holding company, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH is in charge of all four companies.
	Jul 22, 2008 News Water Environment Federation (WEF) Water Environment Federation announces the 23rd Annual WateReuse Symposium The Water Environment Federation (WEF), the WateReuse Association, and the American Water Works Association (AWWA) will present the 23rd Annual WateReuse Symposium from September 7-10, 2008 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas. Built around the theme, Water Reuse & Desalination: Solutions as Big as Texas, this annual conference will focus on the following key issues: micropollutants, desalination, indirect potable reuse, operational issues, and global water reuse.
	Jul 25, 2006 News Niranjan Swarup [Executive Director of the Indian Society of Trenchless Technology (INDSTT)] Trenchless Technology in India Trenchless Technology is an ever-expanding industry in India. Here, the Indian Society for Trenchless Technology (INDSTT) offers its perspective on the country's infrastructure and the growing trenchless market.
	Jul 02, 2009 News Herrenknecht AG Gotthard Breakthrough is cheered In Amsteg Huge Reception For Tunnel Boring Machine Gabi 1. The Herrenknecht tunnel boring machine 'Gabi 1' reached its target destination of Amsteg in the middle of June 2009 – six months ahead of schedule. Politicians, tunnel workers and 650 guests cheered on the tunnel boring machines as it arrived. This final breakthrough by the first machine in the Erstfeld-Amsteg section constitutes the achievement of an important milestone at the Gotthard Base Tunnel. Moritz Leuenberger, member of the Swiss Federal Council, congratulated the tunnel constructors on their excellent performance at the last stage target.
	Aug 12, 2010 News inge watertechnologies AG Less fouling ? more efficient RO: German and Israeli ministries fund research project The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) have launched a research project with 1.5 million euros of funding. The three partners in the project are Dresden Technical University, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, and the German company inge watertechnologies AG, which specializes in ultrafiltration and membrane technology. The aim is to find ways of reducing fouling and scaling in membranes – especially in the context of treating municipal waste water – in order to improve the membranes' performance and durability and ultimately improve the efficiency of a reverse osmosis (RO) plant.
	Mar 26, 2010 News University of CaliforniaUniversity of California UCI engineers take care of the aging water infrastructure No mere pipe dream: UCI engineers are working on robotic technology to rehabilitate the nation's aging water infrastructure
	May 27, 2010 News Brandenburger Liner GmbH & Co. KG Change in the Management of the Brandenburger Group of Companies With effect from 1st April 2010 Tim Brandenburger has been appointed CEO of the Brandenburger Group of Companies. Dr. Holger Schmeisser has left the company’s general management after approx. a year and a half as an interim manager.
	May 22, 2006 News WEF - Water Environment Federation WEF Member Associations Send Aspiring Water Scientists to National Stockholm Junior Water Prize Competition Alexandria, VA – The Water Environment Federation (WEF) proudly announces the 2006 U.S. state winners of the Stockholm Junior Water Prize (SJWP) – the most prestigious youth award for a water-related science project. WEF Member Associations selected and will sponsor state winners and their science teachers to attend the national competition, hosted by the Georgia Association of Water Professionals, June 22-24, 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia.
	May 21, 2007 News Messe München GmbH bauma FORUM 2007 for the mining industry bauma 2007 was the most successful bauma ever and exceeded all expectations not only regarding the number of exhibitors but also concerning the number of visitors. In addition to all records and the great feedback, bauma 2007 celebrated a fantastic première: For the first time, bauma featured the so called bauma FORUM which provided exhibitors and visitors with all newsworthy information on the market for mining machinery, tunnel construction and processing technology as well as on new product developments.
	Mar 01, 2010 News The Robbins Company Onsite Assembly Fits Up with Robbins EPB Build of Mexico's Largest TBM Completed in Eight Weeks
	Mar 02, 2009 News Herrenknecht AG Mexico City is prepared to build the largest wastewater system worldwide The CEO of the Mexican water authority CONAGUA visits Herrenknecht AG on the occasion of completion of the first tunnel boring machine for the Emisor Oriente project.
	Oct 22, 2007 News The Robbins Company Robbins hybrid EPBM a versatile solution for Istanbul sewer A 3.1 m (10.2 ft) diameter Robbins Hybrid EPBM in Istanbul, Turkey can bore in two very different situations. The hybrid machine can switch between hard rock and EPB modes, making it ideal in mixed ground conditions. The bored tunnel will be used to help clean up a sewer system for over 250,000 people living along Istanbul's Beykoz coastline at the Bosphorus. NTF Construction Company will bore two mixed ground tunnels of 4.1 km (2.5 mi) and 3.0 km (1.9 mi) in length with the hybrid machine.
	Aug 21, 2007 News Insituform Technologies Insituform to exhibit latest sewer and water products and technologies at WEFTEC 2007 Insituform®’s cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) and Composite Pipe™ (CP) products allow customers to rehabilitate small, medium or large diameter pipes with a jointless, “pipe-within-a-pipe” solution. Over 13,500 miles of Insituform®’s durable and cost-effective CIPP solutions have been installed to rehabilitate the world’s deteriorating infrastructure.
	Aug 11, 2008 News HOBAS Clean water for the Baltic Sea Kaliningrad with its half a million inhabitants is a Russian exclave situated at the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania. Given this relatively large number of inhabitants it is understandable that the lack of a water treatment plant is a great concern to the public as well as to surrounding countries. Daily over 250,000 m³ of wastewater flow into the Baltic Sea polluting seawater and the Polish and Lithuanian coasts.
	Feb 03, 2009 News 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 most cases, it replaced smaller cast iron and uncoated steel pipe with larger diameter or higher pressure main to increase capacity and prepare for future growth.
	Oct 13, 2009 News North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT) Northwest Trenchless Conference Scheduled for Nov. 24-25 in Calgary, Alberta The North American Society for Trenchless Technology - Northwest Chapter and the Tunneling Association of Canada will be presenting the 2009 Northwest Trenchless Conference in Calgary on Nov. 25. This will be the 13th annual presentation of this event.
	Mar 29, 2010 News Qbase Data Services Ltd. Qbase releases geospatial data tools Qbase Inc. announced the release of a new, specialized suite of data quality tools that allow transformation and visualization of geospatial information for business intelligence and decision-support.
	Apr 14, 2010 News Borealis AG Borealis achieves positive net profit and improves gearing Borealis recorded a EUR 38 million net profit in 2009 as the result of a continuous focus on cost competitiveness, commercial and operational excellence Reduction of debt without restricting major investments in the growth projects LD5 (wire and cable), Borouge 2 and Borouge 3 Continued focus on safety as confirmed through a second DuPont Safety Award Key investment decision in catalyst production capabilities reinforces commitment to innovation
	May 07, 2010 News Thames Water £25million to combat Counter?s Creek sewer flooding Thames Water is spending up to £25million over the next five years on measures to stop basements flooding with sewage at properties in west London: Work from 2010 to 2015 in the Counter’s Creek area includes delivering a short-term solution - fitting more than 600 pumping systems to protect the worst-affected properties - while research and design continues on a long-term solution - a larger sewer network costing several hundred million pounds.
	Oct 29, 2010 News iPEK International GmbH New QuickView® Inspects Farther into Pipes using Haloptic? Technology; Scans Manholes with Auxiliary Wide-Angle Camera Designed to inspect sewer and stormwater infrastructure at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional methods, the QuickView zoom survey camera incorporates new patent-pending Haloptic technology to boost the range, aligment and precision of its illumination. The new QuickView is also equipped with a 16 GB wireless video viewer/recorder; an auxiliary wide-angle manhole camera; and a rugged transport case that organizes all system components into one convenient kit.
	Aug 01, 2007 News The Renewable Energy Centre The Renewable Energy Centre disappointed with go-ahead for Thames Water desalination plant The Renewable Energy Centre joins many environmental groups in the opposition against plans for the £200 million Thames Water desalination plant, when a third of their water supply is currently being lost through leakages.
	Feb 08, 2011 News Herrenknecht AG Gigantic TBM for Italy The world's largest earth pressure balance shield was successfully accepted by the customer.
	Feb 14, 2007 News AlpTransit Gotthard AG Sealing measures at Sedrun almost complete In the southward drive of the Sedrun section, injection work has been in progress since the end of October 2006. These sealing measures are to prevent further water from being drawn out of the rock. By Christmas, the water ingress was reduced by half to 5 litres per second. By mid-February 2007, the injection campaign should be complete. Driving to the south will then be resumed.