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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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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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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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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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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Lumite acquires Propex plant

August 1, 2008  |  News

Gainesville, Ga.-based geotextiles manufacturer Lumite Inc., a 50% subsidiary of Thrace Plastics Group, has acquired a geotextiles manufacturing plant from Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Propex Inc. The 226,200ft2 Yonah facility, located in Alto, Ga., manufactures specialty manmade fabrics such as geotext…
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RECP installation demo provided by NAGS, ECTC

August 1, 2008  |  News

By Dave Suits An installation demonstration of temporary rolled erosion control product (RECP) was presented at the annual Highway Superintendents School, sponsored by the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) in Ithaca, N.Y. in June. This annual 2-day school brings together more than 500 New Yo…
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Transmissivity article unnecessarily confusing

June 1, 2008  |  News

In response to Rich Lacey’s article in the February/March 2008 issue of Geosynthetics (“Transmissivity: An ambiguous contradiction,” pp. 26–31), everything he says is correct, but I find the explanation more complicated and confusing than it needs to be for a design practitio…
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Third national paper MSE wall competition held at GeoCongress in New Orleans

June 1, 2008  |  News

By Dave Elton Eleven university teams competed in the 2008 GeoCongress student competition March 12 in New Orleans. The Louisiana State University (LSU) Tigers took top honors, topping twotime reigning champion University of Missouri–Columbia. The Drexel University GeoDragons took second-place…
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Indefatigable nonwovens pioneer retires

June 1, 2008  |  News

During his nearly 4 decades with Fleissner, Alfred Watzl exerted a decisive influence on the development of nonwovens installations. Under his direction in sales and marketing, a variety of technical textile equipment innovations was developed, built, and sold worldwide, including the Fleissner &ldq…
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