TW Dec 08
UCT San Antonio looking to surpass Atlanta
With less than a month left to go to UCT 2009 in San Antonio, Texas, on January 20-22, the annual underground construction event is looking every bit more successful than the Atlanta 2008 show. Full story...Global News
AEM cautiously optimistic on construction machinery sales
According to its annual outlook survey, the US-based Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) has forecast that sales of trenchless equipment for 2009 could rise, despite not being that optimistic about construction-machinery sales in general. Full story...IPR acquires Underground Technologies
US-based pipe-rehab company Inland Pipe Rehabilitation (IPR) has announced its acquisition of Underground Technologies, based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Full story...Yorkshire Water is first to trial in-pipe sealant
UK provider Yorkshire Water is the first water company to trial a new pipe-sealing technology that seals leaks from inside the pipe in a similar way to how blood platelets seal cuts in the human body. Full story...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. Full story...UCT San Antonio looking to surpass Atlanta
With less than a month left to go to UCT 2009 in San Antonio, Texas, on January 20-22, the annual underground construction event is looking every bit more successful than the Atlanta 2008 show. Full story...Features
Crossing the Mahi River
Thomas L Teer and Abhishek Khare of Prime Horizontal discuss the record 2,008m HDD crossing of the Mahi River in Gujarat, India Full story...Pressure was on to upgrade gravity sewer in Groningen
GRAVITY sewers in Groningen, the largest city in northern Netherlands, could not cope with high flow rates that occurred during periods of heavy rain. Full story...HDD crossing of the River Sleza
Sabel is a specialist trenchless pipe contractor and cable laying contractor that employs 70 workers. It is one of the main contractors working for Polish Railways and is involved in rebuilding the railroad connecting Wroclaw and Dresden. Full story...Indian HDD on the rise
Professor Niranjan Swarup, executive director, Indian Society for Trenchless Technology, describes the current state of play of Indian HDD Full story...What's on at UCT
The global trenchless sector will soon converge on the annual Underground Construction Technology (UCT) conference in the US. George Demetri gives a preview Full story...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 Full story...Innovation
Record-setting reamer order
A recent HDD project in Egypt through unstable soil required a special reamer to complete the job. Don Carey of US-based StraightLine reports Full story...Very revealing stuff
Rob Trefz of Ridgid outlines some of the benefits of modern locating equipment Full story...Site Search
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