Profile names regional sales manager, promotes golf business manager

August 1, 2008  |  News

Pat Holubetz has joined Profile Products LLC as Midwest regional sales manager. Holubetz is replacing Dwight Johnson, who was promoted to Profile Golf business manager. Holubetz supports Profile’s distribution network in the Midwest and will work with new customers. Johnson’s new role as…
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New GSE sales managers

August 1, 2008  |  News

GSE Lining Technology Inc. (GSE) has added 4 new regional managers to its North American sales team. Dale Geary is now regional sales manager for the Mountain West and Western Canada territory, based in Houston. He recently held the national account operations manager position in GSE’s install…
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Bauters joins Golder

August 1, 2008  |  News

Tim Bauters has joined Golder Associates Inc. as a senior project engineer at the company’s Mountain View, Calif. office. Bauters, previously with Tenax Corp., will specialize in solid-waste projects, engineered barriers and geosynthetics, civil and geotechnical engineering, and design, permit…
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Dow acquires Stevens

August 1, 2008  |  News

Dow Building Solutions (DBS), a business unit of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW), has acquired Stevens Roofing and Geomembrane Systems, a business of JPS Industries Inc. Based in Holyoke, Mass., Stevens manufactures reinforced thermoplastic commercial roofing systems as well as polypropylene an…
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Contech CEO elected

August 1, 2008  |  News

Ronald C. Keating has been elected president and chief executive officer (CEO). Keating has been with the company since August 2007, when he was named president and chief operating officer (COO). Keating succeeds Pat Harlow, who will remain chairman of the civil engineering site solutions provider. …
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Tensar geogrid wins European building awards

August 1, 2008  |  Products

The TriAx geogrid from Tensar International won a gold medal at the Brno International Building Fair in the Czech Republic and also at Autostrada 2008 in Kiecle, Poland. From the 800 exhibiting companies and 8 award winners at Autostrada, TriAx was the only geosynthetics product to receive recogniti…
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Geotextile-wrapped layer is key to drainage project in Ontario

August 1, 2008  |  Products

A geotextile-wrapped layer of stone fill is an important element in a $3.5 million drainage project in the Thunder Bay neighborhood of Fort Erie, Ontario. The construction includes a series of storm chambers that will convey water underground, or in cases of heavy rain or runoff, store the water in …
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Geosynthetics at the Olympics

August 1, 2008  |  News

Look carefully at the venues for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Geosynthetics may not be obviously apparent, but a re-examination of the many new locales built for this enormous event should offer plenty of possibilities. Examples include: Millions of square meters of geosynthetic liners and geomem…
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Geotextile form bags used to help end defects in factory-built houses

August 1, 2008  |  Products

California-based Sure Safe EFS has announced that its engineered foundation system has proven effective in eliminating defects caused by improper settling of factory-built modular homes on faulty foundations. One of the keys to the system is that when all of the steel buttresses are in place below t…
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Permeable parking lot in Chicago

August 1, 2008  |  News

The Illinois Sports Facilities Authority (ISFA), owner, developer, and operator of U.S. Cellular Field, home of Major League Baseball’s Chicago White Sox, has unveiled an environmentally friendly parking lot at the facility on the south side of Chicago. Featuring a permeable paving surface, pa…
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