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Going live at Stoneleigh

No-Dig Live 2010 – the tenth occurrence of this important UK trenchless event – will be held at Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry, UK, on October 5-7. Here follows a brief look at selected exhibitors

Loch Lomond culvert renewals stay on track

Ian Clarke reports on a tricky pipebursting operation in Scotland designed to renew collapsed and blocked culverts

A win for Trenchless Technologies

South Africa-based Trenchless Technologies recently won the accolade for ‘outstanding performance’ at the 2010 Construction Summit Awards in Johannesburg.

No-Dig Live a litmus test for UK trenchless fortunes

Having been in the doldrums for the past 18 months, the fortunes of the UK’s trenchless sector may have at last turned the tide as interest in the No-Dig Live event to be held on October 5-7 has reached unprecedented levels.

PPE seals five-year accord with Lanes Group

Performance Pump & Equipment (PPE), one of the UK’s largest independent pump equipment companies, has announced a ‘long-term, strategic partnership’ with Lanes Group, the largest independent drain specialist in the UK

Innovation fosters safer pipebursting

ABS Trenchless has claimed its newest-generation pipebursting machines have a special pulling rope that allows the completion of jobs hitherto impossible

Are the Chinese next in line?

Canada has emerged as a major force in developing new technologies for pipeline assessment and rehabilitations, says Jon Boon of CHKSTT, and asks are the Chinese poised to do the same?

Saving time and money

Ian Clarke reports on a novel docking device used on a cable-based pipeburster

Cutting down disruption

A pre-chlorinated pipe burst in Michigan has set records. Todd Grafenauer of Murphy Pipeline Contractors, reports.

ICUEE names new event president

Organisers of ICUEE – the International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition – have announced that Chris Brahler (right), president and CEO of Illinois-based TT Technologies, will be chairman of the next ICUEE exposition to be held in Louisville, Kentucky on October 4-6, 2011

New web program shows the way

Egeplast, has launched Web Calculator, a web-based program designed to cut the guesswork out of selecting procedures for laying plastic pipelines

Frank Canon honoured

Frank Canon of Baroid has become the fifth recipient of the Northeast Trenchless Association’s Founders’ Award.

TA Drilling in new dealership tie-up

TA Drilling, the Sussex, UK-based drilling tools and components supplier, has been appointed exclusive dealer for SNDC in the UK and Ireland.

Exhibitors gear up for Bauma

Carly Lovejoy looks at some of the products that will be showcased at Bauma 2010

Ferro Monk scores in utility evaluation scheme

UK-based wastewater asset and pipeline-rehab specialist Ferro Monk Systems has dome well in an audit and assessment scheme focussing on risk-critical and other issues.

TT launches Burstform in Middle East

Tracto-Technik (TT) presented its Burstform product to the Middle East at the first Underground Infrastructure Middle East Conference in Bahrain in January.

Publish and be glad

Another year and another opportunity for the trenchless industry to lift itself above the gloom that has engulfed it these past 12 months.

TT seals deals at India show

TT-UK, part of the TT-Group of companies, has announced brisk trading and new orders following its participation at the No-Dig India Show, held in New Delhi last November.

Ditch Witch

At UCT 2010, Ditch Witch will be featuring the PR100, the company’s newest and most powerful pipe bursting system.

TT Technologies

TT Technologies will be showcasing its recently introduced trenchless method for replacing plastic, copper and steel services – the Mini-Grundotugger.

National Grid renews Grundomat earth-displacement mole contract

National Grid has awarded an earth-displacement mole-supply contract to TT-UK, part of the TT Group of Companies. This follows an exhaustive tender bid procedure through the Achilles UVDB Scheme

On an upward curve

Carly Lovejoy looks at a range of trenchless projects from the last 12 months

Tracto-Technik in top 100 innovators

Trenchless equipment manufacturer Tracto-Technik has done well in a recent top-100 innovations survey of middle-size companies in Germany

Pipe bursting cracks on

Pipebursting has enjoyed growing acceptance globally as a trenchless technique, partly as a result of the growing popularity of trenchless technology, but also of the many benefits the technique has to offe
Operatives of Yekaterinburg-based trenchless contractor Avers-SK, which owns T85, T175 and T400 pipebursters from SNDC

Unlocking the mysteries of the East

When private money takes over the water business, a much higher rate of network rehabilitation often results
Getting to grips with the Tric-patented pipebursting system

Trenchless for sale or rent

John Rafferty, marketing and field services co-ordinator at California-based TRIC Tools, reports on the rental side of the trenchless sector

Good times ahead

Presentation ideas invited for 2010 Pipeline Technology Conference

The 5th Pipeline Technology Conference (PTC - April 19-20 2010) is inviting presentation proposals on all aspects surrounding pipeline systems.

Out of the dark

Carly Lovejoy looks at some of the latest trenchless sewer installations and the equipment used to complete them

Pipeburst pulls through

Vartanov Rem Ronaldovich, director of MUE Vodokanal, a municipal water authority, reports on a recent pipebursting project in Volzhsky

Are you ready for 2010?

Starting January 2010, Trenchless World will be giving its readers the chance to promote their projects in our ‘Project 2010’ feature. Projects can be recently completed or near completion.

A triumph on a tight site

Pipebursting was successfully used to upsize a German town sewer, where space restrictions and the local geology made for a tricky operation

Pipebursting success stories

Jesper Nielsen of the Denmark-based Scandinavian No-Dig Centre (SNDC), invites three users of SNDC equipment to describe their experiences with pipebursting equipment.

Reliability is everything

Joseph Abbott of Godwin Pumps looks at the factors to be considered when pumping is required on a gravity sewer flow diversion

Pure pleasure for Plano pipe burst

Jeff White, of US-based Earth Tool Company, looks at a challenging static and pneumatic pipe-burst in Texas

Hammerhead rolls out new website

HammerHead Trenchless Equipment, North America’s largest manufacturer of piercing tools, pipebursting and pipe-ramming systems, has launched a revamped, state-of-the-art website.

IPR acquires Underground Technologies

US-based pipe-rehab company Inland Pipe Rehabilitation (IPR) has announced its acquisition of Underground Technologies, based in Knoxville, Tennessee.
No Dig 09

Toronto No-Dig Show 2009 creating a buzz

NASTT (the North American Society for Trenchless Technology) reports strong interest in the International No-Dig Show 2009, to be held at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto, Canada, between March 29 and April 3, 2009.

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