Diane Hitt, General Manager of East Coast Erosion Control, has a lot to smile about these days. The company, based in Bernville, Pennsylvania, has developed steadily in recent years, adding wider product rolls, new products (e.g., the T-RECS turf reinforcement mat), and international exhibition presence. It has also played a strong, beneficial role in environmental protection for Pennsylvania’s busy...

This year marks a number of hallmark anniversaries in the geosynthetics and erosion control field, with industry organizations like the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) celebrating 30 years and various companies marking their 20th, 25th, or 30th anniversaries. None of them can top American Excelsior this year, which is celebrating its 125th anniversary. In this interview with Elizabeth Peggs, American Excelsior's...

While geohazards mitigation and response is large topic around the word, it is only now gaining real traction in North America. Canada has a more developed geohazards market (systems, companies, research and regulation), and GeoHazards 6 (15-18 June 2014) is making a huge statement with its choice of venue: Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. UPDATE: Abstracts deadline extended to...

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 applications, today announced that Charles A. Sorrentino, a current member of the Board and interim President and Chief Executive Officer, has been appointed the Company’s permanent President and Chief Executive...

The Indian Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) has published the second issue of 2013 of its Indian Journal of Geosynthetics and Ground Improvement (IJGGI). Volume 2, Issue 2 contains a number of technical articles that highlight the engineering and research interests influencing the practice in India: "Studies on Effects of Pre-stressing the Reinforcement on the Behaviour of Reinforced...

For this installment of "Recommended Reading," we asked Richard Bathurst, Ph.D., FCAE, FEIC, P.Eng., what others in the geosynthetics and affiliated engineering sectors might learn from or like to have in their files. He recommended a freely-available report from the Netherlands-based organization CUR Building & Infrastructure: "Durability of Geosynthetics." Dr. Bathurst writes: ** I would like to recommend to the readers of...

1 November 2013 – Varennes, QC – Solmax will be present at the GeoAfrica 2013 convention held in Accra, Ghana from 18-20 November 2013. GeoAfrica 2013  is the 2nd African Regional Conference on Geosynthetics and will be hosted by the International Geosynthetics Society's (IGS) Ghanaian chapter. Focused on the scientific and engineering development of geosynthetics and associated technologies in the Mining, Transportation and the Environmental sectors...

By Geosynthetic Institute - The next GSI Webinar will be "Geosynthetics in Heap Leach Mining." It will take place 13 November 2013 from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm (EST). This continues the Geosynthetic Institute's (GSI) monthly webinar series, with each session being held every second Wednesday of the month. REGISTER VIA THE GSI WEBSITE   Over the past ten years the extraction of...

In September 2014, a new mining conference focused on the utilization of geosynthetics within this vital global engineering sector will convene. From 8-11 September 2014, the conference division of InfoMine will host Geosynthetics Mining Solutions. The conference will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This conference marks the first specialty focus of its sort targeted to the mining industry....

Oktober 2013 - Die HUESKER Gruppe, mit Zentrale im westfälischen Gescher/Deutschland, wurde am 1. Oktober 2013 um eine neue Tochtergesellschaft in Moskau/Russland erweitert. Als einer der international führenden Hersteller von Geokunststoffen, ist die HUESKER Gruppe in den Bereichen Erd- und Grundbau, Straßen- und Verkehrswegebau, Wasserbau, Umwelttechnik sowie in der Industrie- und Agrarwirtschaft tätig. Die Geschäftsführung der russischen Tochtergesellschaft HUESKER OOO übernimmt Stanislav...