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History, development, and future prospects for geosynthetics industries in China (Part 2 of 2)

October 7, 2009

…impacts of city waste, raw sewage, deforestation, coal silt and rural garbage. By 1999, scientists rated the river as virtually “dead” and a severe public health hazard. The Sha River…

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Geosynthetics: Recalling the days of yore

October 7, 2009

…sponsored by the USAF to look at geosynthetics for the rapid repair of runways. We performed model tests of footings on the surface of a dense sand in a large…

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Silver anniversary: the Tanque Verde retaining walls

October 7, 2009

…out of Denver and Dr. Rudy Bonaparte, technical director at Tensar, provided technical assistance. Cowell is now the president and CEO of GeoStructures in Purcellville, Va.. and Dr. Bonaparte is…

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Geo at P.S. #1

October 7, 2009

…the annual Young Architect’s Program run collaboratively with the Museum of Modern Art to explore new design directions. MOS’s design featured several wind chimneys made from aluminum fabric stretched across…

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Sibur opens second unit for geogrid production

October 6, 2009

…A new production unit for geogrid manufacturing has opened at Sibur’s Plastik plant in Tula, Russia. The design capacity of the new unit is 3 kilo metric tonnes…

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Orton expands production of flat geogrids

August 18, 2009

…OJSC Orton, a subsidiary of SIBUR, Moscow, Russia, has expanded its production of flat geogrids by opening a new manufacturing facility in Kemerovo, Russia. The plant, which has…

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IAGI certified welding technician course, Romanian style

August 1, 2009

…I asked Laurie Honnigford if there was any company in Eastern Europe that might want to run a CWT certification course. Iridex, in Bucharest, Romania, she said immediately. So we…

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Erosion-control mix rebuilds Clyde’s creekbank

August 1, 2009

…with streambank slopes steeper than 1:1 and vertical bank heights of 11ft (Photo 2). Destruction from the hurricanes allowed excessive amounts of runoff to rush through this channel at a…

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History, development, and future prospects for geosynthetics industries in China (Part 1 of 2)

August 1, 2009

…the academic communication and market education between China and the rest of the world. 1.2 Classification of geosynthetics Currently, there are no unified classification rules and there is no significant…

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Silt fence applications for geosynthetics

July 24, 2009

…pollutant. Other pollutants such as fertilizers, pesticides, oil and grease make stormwater runoff our most common cause of water pollution. In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency has created…

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