20.04.2021 (605 Clicks)
Strabag awarded major Motorway Contract in Poland
- 18.75 km section of the A2 between Siedlce West and Malinowiec
- Contract value: €153 million
- Completion: end of 2024
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20.04.2021 (411 Clicks)
Overcoming Obstacles to find Opportunities in Climate Change
Climate change is one of the world’s toughest problems. On one side is how the drivers of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions – whether they’re policy changes, technological advancements, or shifting access to capital – will affect our economic performance. The second is that, if these drivers aren’t successful in delivering the required level of emission reductions, we’re going to have increasingly erratic weather, which can also negatively affect the economy.
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19.04.2021 (426 Clicks)
LKAB: Tests for heavier Transports on the Ore Railway
Trafikverket (the Swedish Transport Administration), together with LKAB and Bane Nor, is conducting tests on the Swedish and Norwegian sections of the Ore Railway to enable heavier transports in future. Therefore, the axle load for ore cars is being increased from 30 tonnes to 31 tonnes.
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19.04.2021 (596 Clicks)
Petropavlovsk announces the Appointment of Mr. Mikhail Irzhevsky as a Director
The board of directors of Petropavlovsk PLC announces the appointment of Mr. Mikhail Irzhevsky as an independent non-executive director with effect from 16 April 2021.
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16.04.2021 (646 Clicks)
H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders develops new Technology to recycle Cobalt
Innovation project subsidized by the German state of Lower Saxony
H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders, a subsidiary of Masan High-Tech Materials, is researching a new process for recycling cobalt from scrap metal at its site in in Goslar. Within two years, the development project is intended to lead to a pilot process that can then be scaled up. The German state of Lower Saxony has contributed €800,000 of funding to this innovation.
For decades, H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders has recycled tungsten – primarily from scrap carbide – using its own processes, thereby meeting a significant portion of the raw material needs of the company’s largest production site in Goslar. This scrap also generally contains between five and 20 percent cobalt.
H.C. Starck has expertise in recovering cobalt, as for many years until 2003, the Goslar site processed a three-digit annual tonnage of secondary raw materials into high-purity cobalt oxide and cobalt metal powders. The aim of the current innovation project is to replace the traditional process – which is made up of several different dissolution, electrolysis, precipitation, extraction and cleaning steps – with a considerably more efficient process comprising fewer production steps. The project also aims to reduce environmental impact, such as by lowering energy consumption.
“Our market positioning is based particularly on our innovative power and technological expertise,” says Dr. Julia Meese-Marktscheffel, head of global research and development at H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders. “Our comprehensive experience in metal recycling is now helping us create an innovative approach that allows us to sustainably recover another technology metal from secondary raw materials available on the market. This differentiation also reflects the strategy of our parent group Masan High-Tech Materials, which aims to develop into a leading global supplier of high-tech advanced materials critical to global innovation.”
The EU classes cobalt as a “critical raw material”. As well as acting as a ductile binding matrix in carbides, it is also used in lithium-ion/polymer batteries, meaning it plays an important role in electric vehicles, a key industry of the future. The most important source country for the primary raw material is the Democratic Republic of Congo, responsible for around 65 percent of cobalt mined worldwide.
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16.04.2021 (397 Clicks)
Fugro’s Vulnerability Assessment informs Port of San Francisco’s safe and sustainable Future
Fugro has completed a geotechnical site characterisation, earthquake hazard and geotechnical vulnerability assessment for the Port of San Francisco’s multi-year, multi-billion dollar Waterfront Resilience Program. The work was conducted over a period of 3 years as part of a multi-hazard risk assessment (MHRA) to identify immediate and long-term hazards, such as those associated with earthquakes, flooding and sea-level rise. As the port’s lead geotechnical engineer for future programme phases, Fugro will use the MHRA inputs to develop and design optimal retrofit solutions for the port’s ageing seawall.
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15.04.2021 (370 Clicks)
How can the EU ensure its Green Deal is a Real Deal for Nature and People?
As the EU looks forward to the recovery from Covid 19, so too must it look to ensuring full alignment of all policies with the European Green Deal. But it is not all down to the EU Commission, the Member States must rise to the challenge to achieve a truly green recovery.
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15.04.2021 (815 Clicks)
L.A. Metro Board awards Sepulveda Transit Corridor Partners
- Bechtel innovative pre-development contract to create rail transit solution for one of the Nation’s most congested freeway corridors
- $69.9 million contract to advance high-speed, high-capacity rail proposal to connect San Fernando Valley to West Los Angeles & relieve I-405
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14.04.2021 (475 Clicks)
Eiffage and Kier receive Notice to proceed for HS2, with their new partners, Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall
Eiffage and Kier receive Notice to Proceed for HS2, with their new partners, Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall
The Eiffage Kier joint venture, recently joined by two new partners Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall, is pleased that, it has received Notice to Proceed (NTP) from HS2 Limited, enabling it to commence the full detailed design and construction of 80km of Phase 1 of the HS2 railway (the route from London – Birmingham).
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13.04.2021 (477 Clicks)
China Huaneng Group and Glencore sign MOU on CCUS Project
On 10 April at the 6th China International Conference on CO2 Capture Utilization and Storage, China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Carbon Capture Transport and Storage Company of Glencore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the cooperation on carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology, commencing with the CTSCo Project in Millmerran power station in Australia.
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23.12.2022
The Emscher Restoration Project: a real Success Story for Germany’s most populous State
For nearly a hundred years the Emscher served as an open wastewater channel that helped to kick-start the development of the Ruhr basin as a centre of industry in North Rhine-Westphalia. The river h...
#Tunnelling #Supply tunnels #special civil engineering #hydraulic engineering
20.10.2022
The World stands at the eleventh Hour
Mankind is facing enormous challenges that threaten to bring major changes in areas such as climate protection, raw materials security and supply chain reliability. By promoting an exchange of ideas and information the bauma 2022 can help to provide and develop practical solutions to these problems....
#Mining #Geotechnics #communication
20.10.2022
Hybrid Grouting – an innovative Technology
Standard grouting equipment is limited to cement-based or organic grouting. Recent developments in grouting technology allow cement-based or organic grouting on a single mobile grouting platform....
#Häny AG #Hochtief AG #Tunnelling #Mining #Geotechnics #injection technology
29.03.2023 - 30.03.2023
Solids Dortmund
13.04.2023 - 14.04.2023
ICSMGE 2023: 17. International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
17.04.2023 - 21.04.2023
Hannover Messe 2023
19.04.2023 - 20.04.2023
MINEX Kazakhstan 2023

World’s longest Railway Tunnel Project – supported by innovative Conveyor Digitalisation and reliable Engineering
17. October 2022 (1029 Clicks)
The consortium BTC Brennero Tunnel Construction and the Hosch Group jointly delivered on a world-class tunnelling project by combining excellent engineering with the innovative remote monitoring system Hoschiris Discover.
#Brennero Tunnel Construction (BTC) #HOSCH-Foerdertechnik Recklinghausen GmbH #Tunnelling #Traffic tunnels #Conveyor technology #Digitalisation
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Buchreihe: Dokumentation der technischen Entwicklung bei der RAG
22. June 2022 (3873 Clicks)
Die Aufgabe der Buchreihe „Dokumentation der technischen Entwicklung bei der RAG“ ist es, das in den vergangenen 50 Jahren im deutschen Steinkohlenbergbau erlangte Fachwissen zu sichern, zu verbreiten und künftigen technischen Entwicklungen Impulse zu geben. Über das Sammeln von Daten und Fakten hinaus stellt die auf insgesamt acht Bücher angelegte Reihe wichtiges Fach- und Lehrmaterial für Betrieb, Praxis und Studium dar.
#RAG Aktiengesellschaft #Mining #underground mining #abandoned mining #Digitalisation #ventilators
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02.03.2023 (226 Clicks)
Metso Outotec wins Order for Iron Ore Pelletizing Plants in China
Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engin...
#Metso Outotec #Chengde Zhaofeng Iron and Steel Group, Co. Ltd #Mining #processing
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06.03.2023 (184 Clicks)
Atlas Copco’s portable air compressors: designed for toughness
The first of its kind in the company’s facilities in Antwerp, the new a...
#Mining #Geotechnics #Energy #surface mining, quarrying #underground mining
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13.03.2023 (164 Clicks)
Sandvik introduces Toro LH518iB with AutoMine
Sandvik Mining and Rock Solutions is introducing Toro™ LH518iB with Aut...
#Sandvik Mining and Construction Central Europe GmbH #Mining #surface mining, quarrying #underground mining #Machinery for Mining and Construction #Digitalisation
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08.03.2023 (162 Clicks)
CSIRO launches CarbonLock to tackle climate change
CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency, has announced the launch of...
#Mining #Tunnelling #Geotechnics #Energy
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