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FGI Happenings: Testing geomembranes

April 1st, 2025

Timothy D. Stark, professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, recently traveled to Hibbing, Minn., with Pat Elliott of Colorado Lining International, Maya Innis of Leister Technologies LLC, and Marlyn Waltner of Intertape Polymer Group to sample the 11 flexible geomembranes that were installed in a mine settling basin […]

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Minnesota geomembrane durability study expanded

January 31st, 2019

More than twenty years ago, the founders of the PVC Geomembrane Institute (PGI) and the succeeding entity Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (FGI) set out to evaluate the long-term durability of geomembranes in actual field use. They wanted to exhume numerous samples of exposed geomembranes for testing on a periodic basis without ruining the integrity of the […]

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