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Feb 01, 2010 News TT UK Ltd. Brisk trading and good interest was the order of the week when TT-UK, part of the TT Group of companies, recently exhibited at the No-Dig India (Trenchless Technology) Show held in New Delhi in November 2009.
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Oct 04, 2005 News Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH Finally, the time has come! The uniquely extensive compendium by University-Professor Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Stein "Trenchless Technology for Installation of Cables and Pipelines", which has received attention and is highly appreciated among experts, was translated into English for the international market and was published in September. It comprises 15 chapters with a total of 748 pages, 845 figures and 307 tables.
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Dec 28, 2006 News Southern Water New technology is helping a West Sussex village to cope with thousands of visitors every year.
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Nov 30, 2009 News PERI GmbH The large-scale sewage treatment plant Czajka, situated to the north-east of Warsaw, is scheduled to be finished in December 2010 – and this after only a two-year construction period. With a cleaning capacity of almost 450,000 cubic metres per day, designed for the equivalent of two million inhabitants, it will be the largest waste-water facility in Poland. Together with the Warbud construction company, PERI´s Polish engineers developed a cost-effective and comprehensive formwork and scaffolding concept which fulfilled all requirements regarding the best-possible concrete surfaces, short construction period and a high level of on-site safety.
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Jan 18, 2007 News Knowledge Factory GmbH, Bochum (Germany) "Those in the darkness drop from sight, sings Mack the Knife in his ballad written by the well-known German author Berthold Brecht. This quotation applies perfectly well to the work in the field of sewer and pipeline construction. In fact, down in the darkness of sewers things are difficult to spot. This is where UNITRACC comes in…"
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Jun 06, 2008 News The Robbins Company Deep in a sheer-walled canyon at the foot of China's Jinping Mountain, crews are working 24 hours a day to assemble a giant. The 12.4 m (40.1 ft) diameter behemoth, a Main Beam TBM manufactured by The Robbins Company, will excavate one of the country's largest hydropower projects to date.
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Apr 12, 2006 News Messe Berlin GmbH, Germany Over 26,000 trade visitors attended the water and gas event in Berlin – Ten per cent more trade visitors – 20 per cent of trade visitors came from abroad. From 3 to 7 April 2006 the European water and gas industry turned its attention to Berlin. Over 26,000 trade visitors from 42 countries came to the city in search of information about the latest developments in technology and energy policy in this sector. In the words of Dr. Christian Göke, Chief Operating Officer of Messe Berlin GmbH: "WASSER BERLIN / GAS BERLIN 2006 again demonstrated its outstanding importance for both industries. One of the most encouraging features has been the increase in the numbers of international exhibitors, trade visitors and delegations."
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Nov 02, 2009 News Borealis AG At Cavigny, in the Manche department of North-Western France, a new innovative centre for the treatment of household and green waste is using BorSafe HE3490-LS-H for its fire-fighting system. BorSafe HE3490-LS-H is a black high-density PE100 compound for the production of pipes that are environmentally friendly in their composition and installation.
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Jul 20, 2009 News Insituform Technologies Insituform to perform sewer pipe rehabilitation without disruption to county neighborhoods and businesses: Insituform Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq Global Select Market: INSU) announced the Clark County Water Reclamation District in Nevada has awarded an additional $6.8 million contract to Insituform for sewer pipe rehabilitation. In total, Clark County has awarded Insituform, a pre-qualified contractor, more than $24 million in contracts so far in 2009. Insituform’s cured-in-place (CIPP) technology rehabilitates sanitary sewers, storm sewers and force mains without the need for digging.
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Mar 04, 2009 News Ditch Witch The Ditch Witch organization has developed a beacon housing that is designed to be more durable, versatile, and productive than the tapered-head beacon housings previously offered by the company.
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Sep 27, 2006 News Thames Water Utilities Ltd. A major new reservoir near Abingdon in Oxfordshire is being proposed to help cope with the projected increase in demand for water from London, Swindon and Oxfordshire in the future.
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Aug 25, 2006 News Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH Over the last years, the German Arab Business Forum has developed into the most relevant and largest platform for German Arab business relations. It is a hot spot for both the private as well as the public sector to focus on new developments, strengthen existing business contacts and create new alliances. In view of the close business connections to Arabia as a result of several projects with Arab gulf countries, it is an honor for the engineering company Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stein & Partner GmbH (S&P) to participate in this international event 2006 as one of the sponsors and lecturers. The 9th German Arab Business Forum is taking place in Berlin at the House of German Business from 6-8 September 2006.
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Oct 05, 2010 News Trenchless Technologies cc Trenchless Technologies cc took top honours at the 2010 Construction Summit awards ceremony for outstanding performance in South Africa’s construction industry held in Johannesburg.
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Jun 26, 2009 News Dow Systems Agreement will create a competitive and innovative leader in epoxy-based solutions for the trenchless industry – Dow Systems, a global business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (Dow), and RS Technik Group (including RS Technik, RS Lining Systems and Maxliner) announced today that they will form a global commercial alliance focusing on the sewer pipeline rehabilitation market, specifically on the trenchless technology called cured-in-place pipe (CIPP). This alliance will combine Dow’s high-technology performance resin systems, characterized by high chemical resistance and mechanical properties, with the state-of-the-art CIPP technology developed and owned by RS Technik Group. It will further increase the partners’ competitive advantages and differentiate the many benefits they offer versus other CIPP providers. The announcement was made during the International Water Week held in Singapore.
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Jun 20, 2006 News Dr. Yehuda Kleiner [Institute for Research in Construction, National Research Council Canada] Occurrences of failure in large-diameter water mains are few and far between, but when these buried pipes do fail, they fail in a big way. The consequences can be catastrophic, including prolonged service disruptions, flooding, major traffic and business disruptions, and contaminated water supplies. The cost of repair is also enormous.
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Jan 22, 2010 News Borealis AG Innovations to create cutting-edge products and bring highlevel efficiency and environmentally-friendly performance to Russia's expanding manufacturing sectors will take centre stage at the Borealis stand during Interplastica 2010.
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Sep 25, 2007 News TT UK Ltd. TT-UK Ltd were recently approached to assist with a trenchless solution to install 110mm OD gravity lateral connections on a new sewage scheme. Site constraints included 1050mm diameter concrete rings and 600mm square manhole covers. The biscuits and lids were already installed. The proposed installation procedure was to open trench. Even though this was a rural location this caused some disruption and took approximately four days to complete an average 12m crossing. Due to the lateral having a gravity requirement the most crucial constraint was the accuracy of installation over the entire length.
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Oct 02, 2008 News The Robbins Company On September 18, 2008 the 12.43 m (40.1 ft) diameter Robbins machine was launched on a 16.7 km (10.4 mi) long hydropower tunnel in Sichuan Province, China. The machine will bore one of four headrace tunnels, which will draw water from the nearby Yalong River, a tributary of the Yangtze. The large TBM will join another 7.2 m (23.7 ft) diameter Robbins machine, which was launched earlier in 2008 to bore a drainage tunnel on the same project.
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May 12, 2009 News TT UK Ltd. TT-UK would like to take this opportunity to invite you to the SED exhibition which is being held from 12th May for three days at the Rockingham Performance Park, Near Corby, England. SED is the UK’s National Event for Construction, where visitors from all around the world will have the chance to see our product range first hand and discuss any questions you may have....
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Aug 05, 2010 News Aker Wirth GmbH After having completed the contract for an Aker Wirth tunnel boring machine of 8 m diameter in December 2009, and following an optimal workshop acceptance, the various individual parts of our latest tunnel boring machine left our plant in Erkelenz at the beginning of July. The components are now on their way to Switzerland where a tunnel is to be bored for the extension of a hydroelectric power plant.
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Nov 06, 2006 News AlpTransit Gotthard AG After driving some 13.5 km – three years and eight months after starting out from Bodio – the second tunnel boring machine reached the multifunction station at Faido. The breakthrough took place in the afternoon with a deviation of only a few centimetres.
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Jan 25, 2011 News ABS Trenchless GmbH Successful deployment of the RBS 1500 from ABS Trenchless
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Jul 01, 2008 News Thames Water Utilities The River Thames is one of the cleanest metropolitan rivers in the world, home to 120 species of fish and aquatic life. However, without the vision of the Victorians, who designed the sewer system that still serves London today, things would have been so much different. Now, 150 years on, the next phase of the evolution of the sewers is about to begin.
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Mar 24, 2010 News TT UK Ltd. A Grundoburst 400G supplied by TT-UK to leading Outer Hebrides contractor Duncan Mackay & Sons, has recently completed some demanding pipe bursting work in Dock Road and South Beach Street in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland.
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Jan 30, 2009 News HOBAS Engineering GmbH 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 situated in central Bulgaria and is known for its ancient Roman water supply system. During the town’s recovery and rise from the ashes of arson and pillage during the Russian-Turkish liberation war in 1877-1878, ancient relics dating back to the 6th century B.C. were found and preserved for the public. Archaeological findings amongst these were clay pipelines and aqueducts which were built during the Roman times and which already then carried water over great distances for the town’s supply.
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