U.S. DOT announces funding for 47 TIGER projects

June 26, 2012  |  News

Overwhelming demand for 2012 TIGER dollars continues U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced last week that 47 transportation projects in 34 states will receive a total of almost $500 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation’s TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Ec…
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Thrace-LINQ hires new director of sales and marketing

June 25, 2012  |  News

Dennis St. Louis named to senior manager role Thrace-LINQ, a global supplier of woven and nonwoven polypropylene-based fabrics, announced in a June 25 press release the addition of Dennis St. Louis as the company’s new director of sales and marketing. St. Louis previously served as director of…
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Congressman visits CETCO

June 18, 2012  |  News

U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh stops by suburban Chicago office By Andrew Aho and Ron Bygness During the April 17 Lobby Day organized by the Geosynthetic Materials Association, officials from GMA-member CETCO were introduced to Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.). That successful meeting in Washington, D.C., resulted in a…
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Enter your award-winning projects now

June 15, 2012  |  News

Deadline for International Achievement Awards (IAA) is July 15 By Ron Bygness The deadline for entries in the 2012 International Achievement Awards, sponsored by the Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI)—July 15—is fast approaching. For the 2012 IAAs, there are 33 categorie…
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Cazzuffi chairs European meetings on geosynthetics standardization

June 14, 2012  |  News

Past-president of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) conducts May meetings in Milan The annual meetings of the European Committee for Standardization on Geosynthetics (CEN TC 189) took place May 23–25 at UNI in Milan, Italy. (CEN is the European Committee for Standardization.). Thes…
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Promotions at TenCate

June 8, 2012  |  News

Henderson, Anderson move up at U.S. headquarters John Henderson and Todd Anderson have been promoted to new positions at TenCate Geosynthetics’ U.S. office in Pendergrass, Ga. Henderson, a former senior vice president, is now global director–water and environment. He is a Georgia Tech gr…
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FGI short course draws 102

June 7, 2012  |  News

“Constructing with fabricated geomembranes: Advances and current trends for mining” In a June 6 press release, the Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (FGI) described its sixth short course offering, this one in Salt Lake City. The May 21 education event was held at the Multi-Agency State O…
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IGS publishes major engineering document in French

June 6, 2012  |  News

“Recommended Descriptions of Geosynthetics Functions, Geosynthetics Terminology, Mathematical and Graphical Symbols” The International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) announced in a May 31 press release that the IGS French Chapter has translated the engineering document “Recommended De…
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Full-scale dredging this summer at Onondaga Lake

June 5, 2012  |  Products

Geotextile tubes are instrumental in the $451 million Superfund remediation project in upstate New York Dredging and capping of contaminated sediments in Onondaga Lake is set to begin this summer, according to a press release from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). Th…
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Questions and answers from the GMA Techline

June 1, 2012  |  Q&A: GMA Techline

Wall connections? Friction values? Anchor trenches? —the Techline answers all GMA techline answers from Bob Koerner The Geosynthetic Materials Association (GMA) offers the GMA Techline, a resource for technical questions about geosynthetics. E-mail: gmatechline@ifai.com for fast, free, direct answ…
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