New turf reinforcement from East Coast

February 25, 2011  |  Products

East Coast Erosion Control introduced its newest product offering this week at the EC’11 event in Orlando: the T-RECS (Turf Reinforcement Erosion Control Solution). ECEC, a supplier of rolled erosion control products, hydromulches, and turf reinforcement mats (TRMs), said in its press release …
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Skaps contracts another nonwoven line

February 3, 2011  |  Products

Skaps Industries, based in Athens, Ga., a geotextile manufacturer and fabricator of geosynthetic and nonwoven drainage products for environmental and civil use, has contracted NSC Nonwoven to provide its equipment for a needlepunching line providing geotextiles and other products to their markets, a…
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Low & Bonar enters geosynthetic joint venture with Alujain

February 2, 2011  |  Products

Low & Bonar PLC, the U.K.–based international performance materials group, and Petrochemical Industrial Company (NATPET), a subsidiary of Alujain Corp. announced in a Feb. 1 press release that they have agreed to terms for a joint venture company in Saudi Arabia for the design, manufacture…
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Tensar launches GlasGrid TF system

November 2, 2010  |  Products

Tensar International Corp. has introduced GlasGrid TF (tack film) into the U.S., Canada, and Latin America markets, an Oct. 25 company press release stated. Tensar’s GlasGrid products, in use for more than two decades, are manufactured by Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics (SGTF). The introduction…
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Strata, Allan Block in new marketing agreement

October 25, 2010  |  Products

In a move described as “making proper landscape retaining wall construction even easier and more accessible,” Allan Block Co. of Minneapolis and Strata Systems of Atlanta have reached “a cooperative marketing agreement,” according to an Oct. 25 press release. The new plan cal…
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Sediment: It’s in the bag

October 13, 2010  |  Products

Construction activities in watery environments can stir up sediments that release stored pollutants; clog waterways; and are expensive to store, treat, or remove. Blue Boar Contracts from Midlands, England, had a national dredging contract with British Waterways to deepen canals and extract tons of …
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Huesker’s Incomat system helps to cross the Ruhr

October 11, 2010  |  Products

Installation of a double-pipeline for water conveyance across the Ruhr River in Germany was completed last year with the help of a sheathing of Incomat, an industrial woven synthetic material manufactured by Huesker, according to a press release from the company. The tailor-made “jackets,&rdqu…
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Optimization of anchor trench design for solar evaporation ponds

October 1, 2010  |  Products

By Richard Thiel Abstract Ponds with exposed geomembranes on their sideslopes are susceptible to wind forces, which must be resisted by properly designed anchorages at the slope crest. The most common anchorage is an earth-filled anchor trench. This article describes improved methods used to optimiz…
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Drainage systems in MSEW

October 1, 2010  |  Products

From the GMA Techline Question on the Geosynthetics magazine article: “Pipeless drainage system” (April 2008) Commenter: Carlos Title: Drainage What is the most used design method for drainage systems in MSEW with geosynthetics? Or what can I do for designing a system for drainage in the…
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Availability of Hypalon

October 1, 2010  |  Products

From the GMA Techline RE: Hypalon I am looking for a chlorosulfonated polyethylene AD-007. We used to use Hypalon but we received a notice a few months ago that chlorosulfonated resin will no longer be produced. Can you help us to find some companies that produce and sell this type of membrane? (Jor…
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