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Canada
Meeting Rock Drillers’ Needs: DTH Percussive Hammers

The down-the-hole (DTH) percussive directional rock drilling market is a fast growing market, particularly in the Southe...

November 1, 2009
Canada
Thinking Lean

When you’re tightening a nut onto a bolt, did you ever step back and think — that it is only the last turn that make...

November 1, 2009
Canada
15 Long Bores in Five Months

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) is playing a critical role in this pipeline project, which is owned by TransCanada...

November 1, 2009
Directional Drilling
OBITUARY: Trent Ralston

Trent H. Ralston, 71, passed away Nov. 9, at St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua, N.H. He was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, on J...

November 1, 2009
News
New Trenchless Equipment Unveiled at ICUEE 2009

The International Construction and Utility Equipment Exposition (ICUEE) attracted more than 16,500 registered attendees...

November 1, 2009
News
Tunneling at CSM

The second annual “Breakthroughs in Tunneling” short course was held Sept. 23-25 at the Colorado School of Mines in...

November 1, 2009
News
Sanexen Acquires Niedner Business

Logistec Corp. announced Oct. 30 that it has acquired, via its subsidiary Sanexen Environmental Services Inc., the Niedn...

November 1, 2009
Canada
Sanexen Environmental Purchases Niedner for $13.4 Million

Logistec Corporation, a diversified cargo handler in eastern Canadian and U.S. ports, as well as an environmental servic...

October 30, 2009
News
Pipe Lining of an Accessible Oval Profile with Light-Curing Reaction...

Sewer rehabilitation: The rehabilitation of sewage pipes using pipe lining with light-curing reaction resin systems pene...

October 29, 2009
International
Proven Reliability Brings Jet Rod Back for More — 23...

Nick Leatherland, owner of Swindon-based and family run drainage systems specialist Jet Rod, started out in 1984 doing C...

October 29, 2009
International
Submarine Cables Expand Communication Infrastructures

In the last 10 years, emerging Internet technologies like voice- and video-over-IP and broadband access have driven expo...

October 29, 2009
International
International NO-DIG Berlin Set for May 2-5, 2011

The 29th International No-Dig 20011 Conference & Exhibition in conjunction with WASSER BERLIN INTRERNATIONAL will take p...

October 29, 2009
International
Trelleborg epros Is Renamed Trelleborg Pipe Seals Duisburg GmbH

The two-year integration process into the globally successful Swedish Trelleborg Group has now made its final step....

October 29, 2009
International
Balfour Beatty to Acquire Parsons Brinckerhoff

Keith J. Hawksworth, the CEO of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. (PB), the employee-owned engineering, strategic consulting, pl...

October 29, 2009
International
Doosan Infracore Portable Power Launches a Chinese Language Web Site...

Doosan Infracore Portable Power has launched a new Web site in Chinese...

October 29, 2009
News
Inland Pipe Rehabilitation Acquires Improved Technologies Group.

Inland Pipe Rehabilitation has acquired Improved Technologies Group....

October 29, 2009
News
Inland Pipe Rehabilitation Acquires Improved Technologies Group

Detroit, Mich.-based Inland Pipe Rehabilitation (IPR), a leading provider of underground rehabilitation solutions with o...

October 29, 2009
Archives
Vermeer Founder Honored

Vermeer founder Gary Vermeer was posthumously awarded the 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 10th Annual Iowa Ventur...

October 27, 2009
Archives
2009 Trenchless Technology Top 50 Trenchless Design Firms

n the December 2009 issue, Trenchless Technology will feature a guide highlighting engineering firms involved in the tre...

October 26, 2009
Archives
Promoting Trenchless Technologies in the Middle East

TRENCHLESS MIDDLE EAST is slated for Nov. 9-11 in Abu Dhabi....

October 19, 2009