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The geosynthetics industry has received some interesting acquisition news: South Dakota-based manufacturer Raven Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:RAVN) has signed an asset purchase agreement to acquire fabrication, installation, and design-build service provider...

The International Erosion Control Association Region One (IECA)  has formed a Canadian chapter. The association is setting the chapter up to serve as Canada’s “essential educational and networking resource...

The Association of Geohazard Professionals (AGHP) is a new professional association that has emerged to serve and promote an engineering sector that has been largely unsupported in the United...

In 2019, Dr. George Koerner, P.E. and his Geosynthetic Institute colleagues published a white paper on the advantages of geosynthetics in construction from an embodied carbon perspective. They returned...

Geogrids and geotextile filter fabric are being brought in to repair the recurring paving problems on Homer, Alaska's Skyline Drive. Mudholes, pitting and rutting are a few of the problems the construction team looks to solve. Read the article online. Learn more here.;

Geosynthetic clay liners (GCLs) have a tremendous record as hydraulic barriers in engineered lining and capping systems. Yet, they are not well understood by the larger geotechnical design community....

The International Geosynthetics Society has published IGS News Volume 32, Issue. Here, in its conclusive issue for the 2016 year, the IGS promotes its new website, connects...

The Sardinia Waste Management and Landfill Conference, 2001 is scheduled for 1-5 October '01. Abstracts of 1 - 2 pages are required by 15 November 00 to: Prof. R. Cossu IMAGE Department, University of Padua, Via Loredan 20 - 35131 Padova (Italy) Themes include; Landfill Design & Construction; Barrier Performance; Landfill Operational Problems; Remediation of Old Landfills. Contact: eurowaste@tin.it or visit

In its 2017 year-end newsletter, Titan Environmental hinted at some positive changes coming to the company. More details are emerging, and they include an announcement of new ownership. Company co-founders...

In its latest animation, TenCate Geosynthetics profiles how road building with geosynthetics can extend service lives up to 10x. The 1 minute, 37 second video shows design with TenCate...

Western Excelsior is celebrating its 40th anniversary in dramatic fashion. The company has entered into an agreement to acquire the 32-year-old company North American Green as of March...

Объединенная компания «Уралкалий» создана в 2011 году путем присоединения ОАО «Сильвинит» к ОАО «Уралкалий». ОАО Уралкалий занимает первое место в мире по объемам производства хлористого калия. В основном производственном...

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) today released its Top 10 List of legislation advancing green building and the economic activity and jobs that come with it. The USGBC Top 10 list honors The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and spotlights nine other pending bills in the House and ten in the Senate that represent the best proposals to advance green building. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which was signed into law last February, dedicates more than $22 billion for energy efficiency projects, including $346 million for energy-efficient building technologies specifically.

Having determined it can more efficiently serve its South American market through its other international manufacturing operations, geosynthetics producer GSE Environmental has announced it will close its plant in...

Get the latest information on Aquamaster® by Intertape Polymer Group® (IPG®) in the full product line brochure: application information, material varieties, data, and more. Learn more here.;

A New Jersey developer has received a $763,500 fine for not controlling sediment runoff from a construction site. The developer had previously received 18 warnings. Properly used, silt fencing, turbidity curtains, and other geotextile products can prevent many of the conditions that lead to these hefty fines. Read about the developer's troubles in the Mt. Olive Chronicle (link below) and the Daily Record (cut and paste the following link into your browser http://www.dailyrecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060721/COMMUNITIES34/609210310/1203/NEWS01 ). Learn more here.;

More than $30 million of funding has been announced for protection of a key landbridge in the New Orlenads, Louisiana region. The project will use 86,807 cubic yards of geogrid mats weighing more than 217,000 tons to help protect the shoreline. Rather than buying this material, the project will use material from the twin spans, which was destroyed during Hurricane Katrina – resulting in $11 million in cost savings for the project. Learn more here.;

HOUSTON — (November 4, 2013) — GSE Holding, Inc., (the “Company” or “GSE”) (NYSE:GSE) the leading global provider of highly engineered geosynthetic containment solutions for environmental protection and confinement...

The prehistoric pile dwellings in upper Lake Zurich, Switzerland originated 4000 years ago and were awarded the status of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2011. These unique sites...

India is digging a huge tunnel to bypass a treacherous Himalayan mountain pass known locally as "Pile of Corpses." The $320 million project is expected to take 5 years to complete and will create a five-mile tunnel buried a mile deep beneath the mountain range's snow-covered rocks. "Once this tunnel is complete, it will be an engineering marvel for the whole nation," said P.K. Mahajan, the project's chief engineer. Learn more here.;

Annual, editor-selected “Best Of” papers from Geosynthetics International are available for free access online. Thomas Telford Ltd’s division ICE Publishing—part of the UK-based Institution of Civil Engineers—has published...

On this day in history (June 11), in 1776, the Second Continental Congress formed the Committee of Five, which was charged with drafting the Declaration of Independence. The team...

ASCE News: The Arthur Casagrande Professional Development Award is presented in recognition of outstanding accomplishments as evidenced by completed works, reports or papers in the field of geotechnical engineering. The award was established to provide professional development opportunities for outstanding young practitioners, researchers and teachers of geotechnical engineering. Nominations due August 15. Learn more here.;

In a 9-minute interview with Geosynthetica's Elizabeth Peggs, Maccaferri's Pietro Rimoldi discusses an extraordinary hybrid reinforced wall design utilized in Sikkim, India. The result is an 80m high structure...

The Moscow Times has published an article on how difficult it can be for foreign companies to work in the Russian market. The paper notes how companies that have the most success have people on the ground, rather than try to participate from afar. A key example is Tensar, the paper writes. Tensar's UK office worked with a UK-Russia trade organization to establish a presence, and it has lead to projects in oil, gas and mining as well as work on development for the 2014 winter Olympics. Learn more here.;