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Singhal Industries Private Limited Introduces Revolutionary Retaining Wall Geogrid for Stability and Durability
08/07/203, Kerala Singhal Industries, a geotechnical solutions pioneer, unveils the Retaining Wall Geogrid. This advanced geogrid reinforces and stabilizes retaining structures. In construction projects, retaining walls minimize soil erosion and landslides and improve safety. In difficult terrain or ground movement zones, sustaining these structures might be difficult. Singhal Industries created ...
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Wall and slope failures cause for concern after flooding in the Atlanta metro area
Homeowners and commercial developers will undoubtedly face many challenges in their recovery efforts following last week’s devastating flood in Metro Atlanta. A major concern for Atlanta area residents and businesses has centered on the failure of retaining walls and slopes, or, if a failure has not yet occurred, the integrity of their walls and slopes in the wake of the flood. According to Jon ...
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Resisting subsidence pitfalls with Tensartech retaining wall solutions
Extensive underground mining in south Poland posed a significant challenge to construction of the A1 motorway which forms part of the connection between the Czech border, Piekary Slaskie and on to northern Poland. To accommodate potential differential settlement on the approach embankments to bridge structures, the engineering consultant consortium addressed the challenge by designing ...
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New High Performance Soil Reinforcement for Roads, Bridges and Slopes Endorsed by BBA Certification
Tensar International’s newly developed RE500 series of uniaxial geogrids have been awarded British Board of Agrément Certification* for roads, bridge abutments, retaining walls, slopes and embankments in UK highway construction. RE500 uniaxial geogrids show significant long term strength improvements to create potentially lower cost structures for clients.“Independent BBA endorsement of our RE500 ...
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Tensar Helps Open Up Wigan
An increasing number of visitors to Wigan has led the borough’s council to invest in a new £6.5m dual carriageway, opening in May 2007. The Westwood Link Internal Access Road is being built to ease traffic congestion entering and leaving Wigan. “Threading the construction of a widened route through a historic city centre is always difficult,” says Brian Farrington, Technical Business ...
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ASTM D6916 - 06c(2011) standard test method for determining the shear strength between segmental concrete units (Modular Concrete Blocks)
The shear strength between segmental concrete units (with and without geosynthetic reinforcement) and is used in design of reinforced soil retaining walls. This test is used to determine the shear strength for the design of the facing stability of segmental retaining walls. Performing a series of these shear tests at varying normal ...
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Maccaferri key supplier of Geomats for Major UK road upgrade
On 1st December 2014, the UK government announced an ambitious £15 billion plan to increase the capacity and condition of England’s roads, launched by Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander. Yorkshire and North East of England were scheduled to benefit from 18 new schemes worth around £2.3 billion, creating an estimated 1,500 ...
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Tensar smooths fans` road to Euro 2012
Tensartech TW1 structural and retaining walls are being installed in a new raised dual carriageway to bypass the historic City of Wroclaw in South East Poland. The road will give access to the new Miejski Stadium in time for its role in the UEFA Euro 2012 football finals. Wroclaw Municipality and its main contractor, Skanska, chose the Tensar solution for the 5km bypass project because of its low ...
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Tensar retains the old with the new in steel city
Construction of the basement car park and foundations for a superstore, on a steep site in Sheffield, meant building over and in front of an existing Victorian wall which could not be structurally loaded. Tensar International designed an innovative Tensartech wall solution over a TriAx® foundation mattress to overcome poor load bearing soil conditions, which also helped to reduce the ...
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New Terramesh Wall in Cyprus is under construction
We are proud to inform you about the new “Stelios Ioannou Library” project Paramesh System, currently under construction in Nicosia, Cyprus. The design was developed by the famous French architect Jean Nouvel. The project covers an area of 15.700 m2 and started in October 2011. Maccaferri Hellas was contacted for the design, supply and construction assistance of the artificial hill ...
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Tensar announces closure of $175 million restructured credit facility with a group of lenders agented by GE Antares Capital
April [30], 2012 –Tensar Corporation (“Tensar”) announced today the successful closure of a restructured $175,000,000 credit facility with a group of lenders agented by GE Antares Capital. The proceeds from the financing will provide Tensar the financial stability to focus on achieving its long-term revenue and profit growth objectives. As a result of this restructuring, ...
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Tensar Wall and Slope Technology Speeds Brownfield Housing Site Start
Tensar Technology is playing its part in the award winning transformation of a Brownfield site in County Durham. 250 new Yuill homes will soon stand on the former Elddis Caravan manufacturing and colliery site outside of Consett. Tensar’s rapid, cost-effective and environmentally sound technology has facilitated progress of the ongoing £3 million project. As an essential partner in the early ...
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Specification Resource on the Web
geosIndex.com is a new online index of geosynthetic material data created to assist designers, specifiers and other professionals in their site materials selection process. geosIndex includes data for geomembranes (e.g., landfill liners, pond liners), geogrids (e.g., for retaining wall reinforcement), geotextiles for unpaved road support, geosynthetic clay liners for environmental remediation, ...
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Tensar international announces price increase for stabilization geogrid products
Tensar International Corporation has increased prices for its subgrade improvement and road base reinforcement geogrid products globally. The increase, effective February 15, has been implemented to partially offset significantly higher polymer raw material costs. "Polymer cost increases have continued throughout 2010", explained Robert Vevoda, Tensar International President and Managing ...
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Tensar International continues global expansion with New Russian Plant
Tensar International has signed an agreement to build a manufacturing plant in Russia. Tensar is the majority shareholder in this joint venture, with remaining investment coming from Russian partners. Don Meltzer, CEO of US parent company, Tensar Corporation, and Bob Vevoda, Chief Operating Officer and President of Tensar International, met with their Russian JV partners in London earlier this ...
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Singhal Industries Private Limited has started manufacturing Uniaxial Geogrid products
Singhal Industries Private Limited is one of the leading manufacturers of geosynthetic products in India. The company has started manufacturing Uniaxial Geogrid products, which are used for reinforcement purposes in a variety of applications, including road construction, slope stabilization, and retaining walls.The launch of Uniaxial Geogrid products is a major step forward for the company, as it ...
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Tensar international responds to sustained polymer cost escalation
Tensar International Corporation, the leader in geosynthetic soil reinforcement and stabilization, has increased prices for its subgrade improvement and road base reinforcement geogrid products globally. The 10 percent increase, effective May 2, has been implemented to partially offset significantly higher polymer raw material costs “Global polymer costs have continued to rise steeply and ...
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Tensar corporation makes major investment to increase geogrid production capacity
Tensar Corporation the leader in geosynthetic soil reinforcement and stabilization, is making a major investment to increase the output capacity of its geogrid production plant in Morrow, Ga. Expansion in the production will come on stream in 2012 enabling an increase in output of 30 percent. “Significant growth of our TriAx geogrid sales in the Americas has prompted the move,” said ...
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Tensar Corporation Promotes Robert Vevoda to Chief Operating Officer
Tensar Corporation, announced today Robert Vevoda has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer (COO). In this new position, Vevoda will be responsible for global manufacturing operations in addition to heading up commercial operations as President of Tensar International Corporation, the leader in geosynthetic soil reinforcement and stabilization. “With Bob’s experience and successes ...
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New network rail certificate of acceptance for Tensar TriAx TX190L Geogrid in rail track ballast and sub-ballast applications
Tensar TriAx TX190L geogrid has been developed specifically to improve rail track ballast stability and so maintain track geometry. Its unique advantages are recognised in the November 2012 issue of Certificate No. PA05/05505 by Network Rail’s Technology Introduction Group, Asset Management Services; Network Rail endorsement is widely regarded internationally as representing the highest ...
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