Innovation

Raeburn Drilling has become the latest business to benefit from technical training on the S Geobor wireline system from equipment manufacturer Epiroc. According to Epiroc, the S Geobor system was developed specifically to cope with site investigations requiring high quality, cost-effective production coring in difficult situations. The company said: “It…

Oil and gas specialist Schlumberger has launched a continuous resistivity services to look ahead while drilling, which it believes is an industry first, to reduce drilling risks and improve efficiency. According to Schlumberger, Irisphere is the industry’s first application of electromagnetic (EM) technology for detecting formation features ahead of the…

Foundation equipment specialist Dieseko has described the launch of its PVE RD260 and RD430 resonant pile drivers as game changing technology. The system, which was debuted at the Bauma construction equipment exhibition in Munich, Germany in April, tunes into the natural frequency of the steel sheet pile to drive it…

Use of alternative fuels is a hot topic and Liebherr’s latest launch probably the biggest step forward for the foundation industry in terms of both size of machine and step-change so far. Over the last 15 years the focus of new equipment launches at the Bauma construction equipment exhibition in…

Finland-based piling rig manufacturer Junttan’s new PMZ6 piling rig, which was debuted at the Bauma construction equipment exhibition in Munich, Germany in April, delivers new potential for installing inclined precast concrete piles. Junttan piling rig technologies director Ate Konkka said: “The development of the PMZ6 has take three or four…

Dawson Construction Plant launched new products for the steel sheet piling market and the CFA sector at the Bauma construction equipment exhibition in Munich, Germany in April. New for steel sheet piling is the company’s HPH hammers which feature a new design, which offers improvement over the previous models. The…

Spain-based Cimentaciones Abando officially took ownership of its new HS 8070 crawler crane for its diaphragm wall business at the Bauma construction equipment exhibition in Muni, Germany in April. The HS 8070 duty cycle crawler crane in the 70t category covers most site work but Cimentaciones Abando plans to use…

Tunnel 24 has taken deliver of the 1,000th Bauer MAT Slurry Handling System to roll off the production line at the company’s facility in Immenstadt in southern Germany. The Bauer MAT BE 500-C was handed over to Tunnel 24 managing director Frank Schwarzer at a special ceremony earlier this month.…

According to Soilmec, the SR125 High Tech platform it launched at the Bauma construction equipment exhibition in Munich, Germany in April as part of the new SR rig range brings one of the winning concepts from the automotive industry to the ground engineering market for the first time. “Our customers…

Landmark Informatiion has announced the launch of a range of new features to enable users to , to instantly view interactive data layers on version two of its Promap product. As part of a significant investment in its digital mapping and data platform, Landmark has introduced the free viewable data…