Issue 35 · September 2010 · 13th year [19th English translation] The latest news magazine from the Group
A cold start After a long winter NAUE takes off with ecological benefits
The year began cold, very cold. significantly fuel consumption geosynthetics and related profes- The winter held Europe under its can be reduced when compared sionals to be aware of the many thumb until the middle of March. to the transportation cost of con- ways geosynthetics meet these In East Europe, nearly all con- ventional clay sealing to a land- environmental goals. The word struction was stopped during this fill site. For Hillern, the savings must get out. time, and that had an effect on were found to be about 64 % - There is still a great deal of edu- our company’s turnover. But as exactly 4,500 litres with the cational work left to do. the weather improved, so did conventional sealing method construction activities and strong versus just 1,600 litres with the production resumed. Bentofix® GCL. Also at Hillern, CONTENT the installation of Secudrain® in- Gravel columns In the middle of this upturn, stead of conventional gravel carry a van NAUE’s purchasing department drainage has greatly reduced Reinforced embank- observed an unprecedented phe- transportation costs to the site. ment "Marina Isla de nomenon to recent manufactur- A major reduction in CO2 emis- Valdecañas", Spain ing decades: raw material prices sions was achieved in this project rose continuously and perma- by installing Secu drain® along The next 100 years nently. The price for polypropyl- with Bentofix®. The overall re- ene (PP), for example, went up duction resulted in an 80 % re- about 40 %. As price escalation duction in CO2 emissions. Not NAUE shores up clauses are not practicable in only is the geosynthetic solution Schwarze Elster’s most construction projects, the the right long-term, strong per- detour price risk remains entirely with NAUE products in non-European are contributing to the health of NAUE Secugrid® and Combigrid® formance choice for the project, the producer, though the risk countries. many sectors. These solutions are reinforcement geogrids can dra- but significant environmental NAUE helps transform a former ash landfill should be divided between the The current market situation in providing cost controls and other matically reduce the intensity of benefits are being realized. builder, construction company Southern Europe, however, is dif- benefits that are helping to make high volume soil transportation These examples show once again A roadway noise and manufacturer. ficult, particularly in Spain and these sectors more competitive. for depositing purposes of e.g. that the utilization of geosyn- barrier inspired by Italy. Many Southern European Some examples: soil replacement material. The thetics help conserve resources, landfill design The present situation: good countries are still very engaged Germany’s federal government use of NAUE geogrids can addi- are eco-friendly, and reduce Currently we are forecasting an in coping with the financial cri- wants to reduce the intensity of tionally reduce the required ag- greenhouse gas pollution. With NAUE circumnavigates increase in turnover of greater sis, and their construction sectors goods transportation in Ger- gregate thickness in roads and nearly 190 governments having Polish city than a double-digit percentage. are not yet healthy. Also, the many, but in 2008 the exact op- therefore contribute again to the signed the Kyoto Protocol for Leading the way in this pro- credit ratings of several construc- posite occurred. The transporta- reduction of the transportation greenhouse gas reduction, and NAUE America receives duction surge are the Far East, tion companies are weak. The tion intensity increased. Because intensity. with an increasing body of re- honor from Emergency Middle East and North America challenge nowadays is to identify of this, a reduction of over 20 % search supporting the economic Training Center regions. The weakness of the the most solvent companies for is needed. The application of The use of 36,000 m² Bentofix® and performance benefits of Euro is contributing positively stronger projects. geosynthetics can help to achieve geosynthetic clay liner in the greener engineering and life-cy- Further information: www.naue.com to the increase in demand for NAUE’s geosynthetic solutions that aim. The installation of Hillern landfill has shown how cle analysis, it is important for Back to the roots ThyssenKrupp moves its administrative headquarters to Essen, NAUE seals off parts of the Krupp Belt Essen, Germany. Rarely has a Of the 1.5 million square metres GmbH & Co. KG company from Picture: Peter Wieler, Essen Marketing GmbH construction project received this of built-up area of the Krupp plant Essen to lay out 150,000 square much attention than the so- in Essen about two-thirds are metres of needle-punched Bento- called Krupp Belt in Essen. The completely destroyed and another fix® NSP 4900 geosynthetic clay term refers to an area of 230 third is partially destroyed after liner, on both sides of the hectares that is situated between the end of WW II. The allied pow- Berthold-Beitz Boulevard (Krupp- the western district of the inner ers ordered many of the function- Park and ThyssenKrupp Quartier), city of Essen and the Altendorf ing machines to be de-installed wherever there are green or empty district of Essen. Up until the end and transported abroad for repa- spaces. 150,000 square metres of of World War II, the Krupp cast rations. Ever since then, the huge the three-dimensional drainage steel factories that were founded area is an industrial wasteland system Secudrain® were installed by Friedrich Krupp in 1811 were at the centre of the Ruhr area. on top of the clay liner to ensure located here. When it was The turn came in 2006, when that the water is drained off. founded, the city of Essen ThyssenKrupp AG decided to re- counted 3,500 inhabitants, and structure its administrative sites At the time the Executive Board roughly eighty years later there and announced, that it would re- Picture: Presse- und Kommunikationsamt, Stadtbildstelle of ThyssenKrupp AG, together are 100,000, of which 30,000 locate its headquarters from Düs- ern and eastern part. The person with the more than 2,000 admin- work at Krupp. At the beginning seldorf to Essen. Thyssen Krupp after whom the boulevard is hectare is on the west side of the sions of the area are. Because, the istrative employees, moves to its of the 20th century, the number will locate a majority of its ad- named, Berthold Beitz, is the hon- Berthold-Beitz-Boulevard; on the quantities of product that NAUE new quarters in the summer of of employees even increased to ministrative buildings, with more orary chairman of ThyssenKrupp east side of the Berthold-Beitz- must deliver are just as gigantic. 2010 and looks over the Berthold- 80,000. The company in the than 100,000 square metres, in AG and an honorary citizen of Boulevard there are the already In order to dispel any doubts that Beitz-Boulevard to the Krupp- western part of town expanded the so-called ThyssenKrupp quar- the cities of Essen, Bochum and mentioned 29 hectares of rainwater will find a way through Park, then they will know that and the Krupp Belt came ever ters, an area that covers 29 Kiel. The first two segments, with ThyssenKrupp-Quartier. the industrial soil into the ground- rain is particularly good for the closer to the centre of town. The hectares in the Krupp Belt. a total length of 1.3 kilometres This short history is important to water, the consortium of Heinrich Krupp Belt. Because the rain- square footage of the Krupp Belt The four-lane Berthold-Beitz were opened in 2009. The 22 understand what special role the Walter Bau GmbH Borken and water drained off by NAUE pro- is three times as large as the in- Boulevard cuts through the Krupp hectares large Krupp Park, with Krupp Belt has for the Ruhr area EUROVIA Teerbau GmbH NL ducts feeds the large lake in the ner city of Essen itself. Belt and separates it into a west- five hills and a lake of almost one and just how gigantic the dimen- Bottrop assigned the von Witzke Krupp-Park. 2 Gravel columns carry a van NAUE Secugrid® Proves Stability at University of Weimar Test 10 June 2010 – Roughly 120 fell and the vehicle weight could Did you know…? visitors came to the renowned be observed settling in the tires, Bauhaus University Weimar re- the reinforced columns held. cently for a Department of Civil More than 2,200 kg (4,800 lbs) That NAUE took part in the Engineering event entitled “En- stood firmly and safely upon 9th International Conference on ergy. Experiment. Experience.” Secu grid®’s strength. Geosynthetics Brazil (ICG 2010 Test trials in the lab have been Brazil) from 23rd – 27th May executed preliminary. The same with a booth and several inter- columns have withstood a total esting lectures were held by load of more than 3,000 kg. This NAUE engineers? load refers to the pressure on the bottom of a family home. NAUE also participated in the BRATISLAVA 2010, the XIVth The audience, media representa- Danube-European Conference on Geotechnical Engineering loading test in the laboratory tives and civil engineering pro- fessors were enthusiastic. The from 2nd – 4th June in Brati- One of the event’s highlights in- Bauhaus University Weimar, De- slava with a booth and contrib- cluded the first public testing of partment of Civil Engineering uted lectures to the programme. geogrid-reinforced stone columns which the car was supported. into the formwork with NAUE geogrid cannot support that,” faculty, had successfully demon- The main topic of the confe- - using a 2.2-ton vehicle. NAUE The geogrid used in the experi- Secugrid® 40/40 Q1 geogrid in- some said. “It will collapse,” oth- strated how well modern geosyn- rence was "From research to GmbH & Co. KG, an international ment was NAUE’s Secugrid®. serted every 10 cm (4 in.) to cre- ers agreed. thetic reinforcement techniques design in European practice" manufacturer of geosynthetics, ate three layers of reinforcement. Two television crews were on perform. The soil-strengthening and was meant to come up with worked with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Karl The four columns, each 40 x 40 When the forklift was ready to hand to capture what would hap- force of NAUE’s Secugrid® 40/40 new developments and experi- Josef Witt and Dipl.-Ing. Mary x 40 cm (16 x 16 x 16 in.), were set the vehicle upon the Secu- pen when the forms were re- Q1 made it possible. ence in the geotech- Noack from the Bauhaus Univer- constructed in front of the audi- grid®-reinforced columns, a few moved and Secugrid®’s ability to nical sector. sity Weimar, to create the geo- ence. Crushed gravel 8 mm – 32 doubting voices were heard in absorb such direct forces was put Video-Documentation at grid-reinforced stone columns on mm (0.3 in. – 1.25 in.) was poured the audience. “A reinforcement to the test. And as the formworks www.naue.com/video-en
Reinforced embankment "Marina Safety for a rail tunnel in Kaunas Isla de Valdecañas", Spain The next 100 years Kaunas is the capital of its same named district and with its 415,700 inhabitants and 156 square km it is the second largest city of Litauen. It is located in the centre of Litauen, on the junction of the two biggest rivers Memenas and Neris, 100 km away from the capital Vilnius and 250 km away from the sea- port of Klaipeda.
The waterside of the river Ne- munas is mountainous and one of these enormous hills is trans- The island "Valdecañas" is lo- slope sections needed to be built The facing of the reinforced em- fixed by a 1,285 m long and cated in the middle of a 7,200 as steep as possible. bankment was built using the so single-tracked rail tunnel. It is hectare water reservoir at the called "wrap around method" in an old heritage-protected work foot of an imposing mountain Conventional concrete retaining combination with steel mesh fac- from 1862 with brickwork lining range, the Sierra de Gredos in walls as a slope stabilisation ing elements, which were used of the inner surface. Spain. The site is located approx. measure were not an option as as formwork during the installa- 160 km south-west of Madrid. they would not create an attrac- tion and compaction of the fill But the swelling minerals in the The island is developed as 135 tive impression from a landscap- soil. To be able to analyse the structure of the mountain caused hectare big tourism complex, ing point of view. As an eco- realistic stresses developed in the instability and danger of col- anchors. These, however, left wards if the Carbofol® geomem- which consists of a golf resort, nomic and ecologic alternative constructed reinforced slope and lapse or water could infiltrate penetrations in the Carbofol® brane layers were welded pro- sailboat marina, holiday village, solution it was decided to con- to compare those to the stresses the tunnel. sealing system, but they could fessionally and if the sealing sys- villas, sports complex and a con- struct the slopes as a 70° inclined determined in the design, a moni- A main part of this reconstruc- easily be plugged up on the basis tem serves the purpose. gress centre. In the area of a steep Secugrid®-reinforced earth toring programme was carried tion program was the deficient of a patch welding construction. planned access road, located in structure. To create an aestheti- out using strain gauges, which base point of the channel, which To provide cover of the Carbo- After this enhancement the tun- the north-eastern part of the is- cally more appealing facing, were applied to a selected geo- was moving, and the danger of fol® geomembrane a protection nel in Kaunas will now be fully land, it was required to fill up horizontal planting zones were grid layer in the lower part of caving-in was steadily growing. layer made of non-woven Secu- functional with the use of NAUE to 21 m to reach the desired embedded in the reinforced slope the reinforced soil structure. In the first step of the renovation tex® geotextile was integrated. products and usable for the next height. To create as much space as 2 m wide berms, which were the tunnel was sealed with a Working started at the arch and 100 years. as possible for construction on distributed over the slope in ver- The results show clearly that the NAUE geomembrane Carbofol®. was completed on the sides in top of the created plateau, the tical intervals of approx. 3 m. largest deformations have taken For the stabilisation of the base the same manner. Quality assur- place during the construction it was decided to use injection ance engineers checked after- process of the reinforced earth structure. The development of the Did you know…? measured strains across the That we have recently published new flyers to give monitored geogrid also shows you detailed information about projects and the that the peak strain is developing advantages of NAUE products? near the facing and decreases with increasing embedment You can get the following flyers: length. This indicates that the · Tunnel Construction: Sealing Suspended Inner Shells line of maximum tension inside · Project: Waterproofing of an Airport Hotel in Thailand the reinforced earth structure is · Advantages of Secutex®/Terrafix® also close to the surface, which Soft Rock Sand Containers confirms the calculation results · Sealing of a landfill in the carried out design calcu- · Erosion Control Secumat® lations. Interpretation of the The Green Skin and Desert Skin Solution for Slopes present data and ongoing mea- surements will be made at a later Please contact us if you are interested in any of them. stage in a separate paper. E-Mail: [email protected] 3
NAUE shores up Schwarze Elster’s detour
beneath Federal Highway 96. A last mat as the foundation for the Picture: LMBV longer tunnel (96 m) takes the breakwater stones. Authorised by channel underneath the Schwarze the German Federal Waterways Elster River. Engineering Office (Bundesanstalt This is, in effect, a loop detour. für Wasserbau [BAW]), crews The project’s general contractor, installed NAUE’s quartzsand in- STRABAG AG, with a subsidiary fused Terrafix® B 813 nonwoven in Senftenberg, tasked NAUE with fibre mat. Terrafix® sand ballast providing geosynthetics to seal mats possess excellent hydraulic off the detoured Schwarze Elster engineering properties: flexibility, Picture: LMBV River. NAUE delivered approxi- filtration, and abrasion resistance. mately 24,000 m² of Bentofix® NSP Also, Terrafix® materials can be 4900 geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) installed under water. In this to Kleinkoschen for installation. case, underwater installation was A levelling layer, as well as a necessary. Possessing a filtering protective layer of bulk fill covered effectiveness against soil types by breakwater stones, was placed one through four, the mats were above the GCL seal. installed on the floor and embank- ment of the channel with an over- Since the bed of this connecting lap of 1 m. channel lies below the groundwater level, the project’s construction The entire construction project is team installed a special sand bal- scheduled to be completed in 2011.
Senftenberg/Kleinkoschen. Lusatia In the Northwest, Lower Lusatia is Lusatia). The small river curves to is a region in Germany and Poland. bordered by the Fläming ridge; and the left around Lake Senftenberg Exhibition and seminar schedules The original meaning of Lusatia is in the West it’s bordered by the (Senftenberger See), and leaves something along the line of Schwarze Elster (“Black Magpie”) Lake Geierswald (Geierswalder See) September “swampy, wet meadows.” Lusatia River, a 179-km long tributary of to the right of it. Both lakes are 09. – 11.09.10 Philconstruct Visayas Cebu, Philippines is separated into two parts that, in the Elbe River. The Schwarze Elster artificial lakes and were once part 13. – 17.09.10 IFAT Entsorga Munich, Germany terms of the landscape, are com- River flows through Senftenberg of the lignite (brown coal) pits dur- 14. – 15.09.10 6th Biomass Energy conference Kyiv, Ukraine pletely different: Upper Lusatia and and Kleinkoschen, two villages in ing the time of the German Demo- 15. – 16.09.10 3rd Geosynthetic Barrier Conference Würzburg, Germany Lower Lusatia. the South of Brandenburg (Lower cratic Republic. Both artificial 12. – 16.09.10 GEO2010 Calgary, Canada lakes receive their water from the Schwarze Elster River. October Navigable artificial channels con- 04. – 08.10.10 WasteCon 2010 Johannesburg, South Africa nect approximately 6,500 hectares 06. – 09.10.10 Pollutec Maroc Casablanca, Morocco of water. And one of these navi- 13. – 14.10.10 Irish Water Waste & Environmental gable channels is currently being Show 2010 Dublin, Ireland constructed between Lake Senf- 14. – 17.10.10 IGEM 2010 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia tenberg (1,300 hectares) and Lake Geierswald (620 hectares), 13. – 16.10.10 WindTech 2010 Istanbul,Turkey in the aforementioned village of 27. – 29.10.10 WASMA-2010 Moscow, Russia Kleinkoschen. November The Lusatian and central German 02. – 03.11.10 ICGESM 2010 Intern. Conference mining management company on Geotechnical Engineering and Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Berg- Soil Mechanics Teheran, Iran bau-Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH gave the order to connect these 02. – 04.11.10 BWEA 32, Renewable UK 2010 Glasgow, UK lakes. The connecting channel is 02. – 04.11.10 ECOTECH 2010 Almaty, Kazakhstan approximately 1 km long. Its bot- 03. – 05.11.10 DepoTech 2010 Leoben, Austria tom is 6 m wide, and the surface 03. – 05.11.10 Viet Transport Hanoi, Vietnam is 70 m from side to side. A lock 08. – 12.11.10 6 ICEG 2010 New Delhi, India compensates for a height difference 09. – 12.11.10 CommunTech 2010 Kyiv, Ukraine of approximately 2 m. The channel’s construction is in- 11. – 13.11.10 Geoprotecta 2010 St. Gallen, Switzerland teresting because two legs of it re- 16. – 18.11.10 1st GSI Asia Geosynthetics Conference Taichung, Taiwan quire tunnels. The first tunnel is 16. – 18.11.10 AVTODOREXPO 2010 Kyiv, Ukraine 64 m long and routes the channel NAUE helps transform a former ash landfill The Upper Palatinate in south- The Westfeld ash landfill lies, in protection. It’s an appropriate fully-bonded surface construc- reclamation sealing layers. quently, the area is to be planted ern Germany’s Bavaria region is part, below the groundwater choice, as it has been approved tion protects the cap system’s A cohesive soil layer with a such that it is seamlessly incor- renowned for its beauty. When level in a former strip mine. for Class I and II landfills in Ger- drainage layer from clogging thickness of one metre is also porated into the surrounding the energy company E.ON en- Pump systems keep the water many. It replaces the mineral and keeps rainwater out of the part of the cap design. Subse- nature. tered closure on a former ash level low. For surface drainage, clay seal stipulated in traditional landfill situated near Schwan- ditches and pipes redirect rain- regulations. It’s also more eco- dorf, north of Regensburg, it water into the neighbouring nomical and stronger, and sought to transform the site into Hirtlohweiher bird sanctuary. Bentofix® layers perform better an exemplary project of envi- Though the landfill stopped ac- than clay-only. On top of this ronmental restoration. The idea cepting ash from the now-shut- GCL layer, a Secudrain® geo- is to return the former industrial tered Schwandorf-Dachelhofen composite drainage layer was site to “the environment and the coal-fired power plant until installed. Secudrain® R201Z people,” as an E.ON representa- 2002, initial, larger-scale earth- WD601Z and R201Z comes with tive said. moving and reclamation activi- a certificate of suitability from ties did not begin until 2009, BAM, the Federal Institute for To protect this massive recla- when 17 ha (42 acres) of the site Materials Research and Testing mation project and ensure its were reclaimed. (Bundesanstalt für Material- success, NAUE sealing and Base Technologies GmbH is forschung und -prüfung). The drainage management techno- leading the site’s planning en- three-part construction of this logies are being utilized: Bento- gineering. Its team envisioned a particular Secu drain® provides fix® geosynthetic clay liners multiple-layer reclamation sys- a strong seepage control core (GCLs) and Secudrain® geocom- tem. Bentofix® BZ 6000 GCLs with geotextile filtration layers posites. provide the first layer of sealing on both sides. This non-slip, 4 A roadway noise barrier inspired by landfill design NAUE contains contaminated soil in a multi-purpose embankment
Long-awaited and hard-fought, a The first route had been deter- simultaneously confining heavy For the safe and final disposal of “Notice on structures for technical for the construction, finally be- 6.5 km section of the A33 motor- mined by 1973, but the approval metal-contaminated soils from these soils, NAUE GmbH & Co. safeguards in the use of soil and lieving that dry, long-lasting dis- way south of Bielefeld was finally procedure was not started until the construction zone, noise pro- KG provided its extensive experi- building materials with environ- posal of the contaminated exca- approved. Noise protection, con- 2003 after several corrections and tection barriers with a special fea- ence from the landfill construc- mental constituents in earthmov- vation is possible. taminated on-site soil and envi- tests. Roughly 1,900 written ob- ture were built. The barrier at tion sector and converted it to a ing (M TS E) of 2009.” Moreover, the landfill-style em- ronmental protection were the jections had to be checked indi- Secutex® R 404 nonwoven geo- bankment is not only for noise contentious issues—and geosyn- vidually. Finally, a decision was textile serves as the sealing base protection; it also enables the thetics from NAUE provided the come to in March 2006 on the and protection for the Carbofol® collection stormwater runoff in solution and made this project A33 section for which NAUE’s so- 509 MegaFriction (2 mm thick retention basins built specially possible. lution has provided the answer. with embossed structure and for this project. DIBt-approval). The third layer, With the opening of this motor- The 6.5-km-long stretch includes Secudrain® 201 WD 601 201, as- Did you know…? way section by the end of 2010, 23 bridges and has cost, overall, sures safe and long-term drainage another chapter will close in the about Euro 95 million. Bridge of the rainwater. The top layer is Latest News from the geosyn- difficult history of A33’s con- construction started in 2007 and secured with the high-strength thetic market, interesting struction. The German motorway road construction followed in the Secugrid® 120/40 R6 geogrid projects, new products – from runs from Osnabrück via Bielefeld summer of 2009. which prevents the filled up soil June 2010 on the NAUE to Paderborn and connects East- (50 cm) from sliding. group offers this in their ern Westphalia with the North ARGE Neubau A33 - a consortium The entire embankment in this e-mail newsletter. The NAUE Sea, the Netherlands and Saxony. comprised of the companies Knoll system is characterized by enor- E-NEWS will only be sent Project planning for this impor- GmbH & Co. KG (technical man- mous stability. when we have relevant news tant transportation route began agement), Beton- und Monierbau for you, concentrated infor- in the 1960s, and since then GmbH (commercial management) NAUE'S geosynthetics are manu- mation is the main idea. three-fourths of the total 100 km and Gröschler GmbH - is respon- Postheide took up 40,000 m³ of truly unique roadway solution. factured from raw materials that If you would like to receive length are currently in use. The sible for this project. soil, which even included PFTs The barrier is 12 m high and are highly resistant to chemicals the E-NEWS, please send an second-to-last section is now un- (perfluorated tensides). These 300 m long. It has been equipped and offer long-term performance e-mail with the subject line der construction. An intelligent solution pollutants are the result of dump- with a four-component cover, and durability. This combination "I order E-News" to Noise is a sensitive issue in nearly ing actions by an old textile manu- sealed by the subsidiary company of top-quality manufacturing and [email protected]. Finally, an agreement every new highway construction facturer. The polluted soil arose NAUE Sealing GmbH & Co. KG deep experience in both trans- The ongoing segment south of project. The A33 was no different. during the excavation of the according to the contaminated portation and waste containment Bielefeld was time-consuming. To alleviate these concerns while roadway. soil handling technical bulletin, helped persuade residents to allow NAUE circumnavigates Polish city NAUE America receives advising on the NAUE products honor from Emergency that will satisfy the demands of the Roads Directorate. Training Center “Our extensive range of pro- ducts allows us to ensure we can meet the demands of all soil reinforcement tasks,” says Kon- rad Rola-Wawrzecki. “And this is not the only road project in Poland where you will find NAUE products.”
Once all the work has been One of many beautiful cities in rection. Also, the work has in- Project Goals completed, the traffic conges- Poland, Wrocław, is to benefit cluded two linkage roads (a total The main aim of the road is to tion in the city centre will be from a new ring road that will of 8.15 km) at Kobierzyce and relieve the congestion occurring greatly eased. Wrocław is a city significantly improve its trans- Dlugolęk a. in the city itself and improve that boasts a number of archi- 19 July 2010 - The expansive heavy concrete blocks, pipes, and portation links. NAUE’s pro- the safety of a number of sec- tectural influences including Smokey Hill Air National Guard debris such as crushed and ducts are an important part of Over 1.5 million m² of NAUE tions of road in the area. Spe- Bohemian, Austrian, and Prus- Range near Salina, Kansas pro- trapped vehicles. NAUE shipped the construction. 60 kN strength, biaxial Secu- cific tasks have been undertaken sian. The traffic easing and the vides 34,000 acres for realistic the material from its Buena Vista, grid® reinforcement geogrid has by Poland’s General Directorate reduction in harmful emissions environment training for both Virginia facility in February 2010 Covering a distance of just un- been specified to meet the pro- for National Roads and Motor- from vehicles will undoubtedly active and reserve military or- and the Kansas Guard began der 27 km, the A8 motorway is ject’s soil reinforcement de- ways. Rafal Ciesielski, manag- help maintain the architectural ganisations. This unique facility work on the installation and pile almost completely new. It does, mands. Secu grid® was used ing director and Konrad Rola- beauty of the city. includes a 156-acre zone for cri- building. however, incorporate a 0.5 km- for the embankment construc- Wawrzecki, the regional sales sis response training. For the long section of an existing ‘fast’ tion, slope reinforcement (wrap director for Geosyntetyki NAUE, These long-term goals are being construction of a collapsed struc- Sgt. Greg Kober of the Army Na- road, which is being widened to around method with a bio- the polish daughter company reinforced by the long-term ture simulation, site coordinators tional Guard, Kansas said that provide two lanes in each di- degradable erosion control mat) of NAUE GmbH & Co. KG, performance and durability of sought a subgrade reinforcement they found Combigrid® “to be a and base course reinforcement. have both been instrumental in Secu grid®. material that would not require great product that was easily in- Did you know…? the addition of a separate non- stalled by hand.” The geogrid woven weed barrier. The Kansas was covered by 6 in. of AB-3 Just in time for the FIFA World Department of Transportation rock base (typical in KDOT road Cup 2010 in South Africa suggested Combigrid® 20/20 Q1 designs), and on 13 July 2010 NAUE introduced GoalGrid to 151GRK 5, a material with which the combined training exercise the international market. Over KDOT has previous experience. was carried out successfully. 500 players aimed their foot- ball shots and tried to score NAUE Combigrid® geogrids com- In conjunction with this, goals against the gridator with bine the excellent stress/strain Michelle Jenkins accepted on be- the use of the computer mouse. characteristics of Secugrid® geo- half of NAUE America a Certifi- Meanwhile the top ranked 28 grids with the three-dimensional, cate of Appreciation along with players have been informed high-elongation, nonwoven fiber a military coin from Brigadier about their success and received matrix of Secutex® geotextiles in General Norman Steen, along their prizes. Thank you to all single layer product for rein- with Angie Morgan and Frank others for playing GoalGrid. forcement and control of fines Coots of the Kansas Emergency This game, as well as the the in weak subsoils, such as those Management Team. It is a mili- last two welcomed games 4- with a CBR of less than 3 %. tary custom to give tokens of for-Secugrid and BallGrid can For the Guard, Combigrid® pro- thanks, and a coin is regarded as still be played. Just visit: vided support to the simulated a gift of honor showing respect www.naue.com/ structure collapse, a pile that in- and gratitude. Picture: G. Kilian games cluded significant amounts of
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