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Tried the Rest, Bought the Best - GRUNDODRILL 15XP
On a visit to the UK in late autumn of 2011 Trenchless Technology Contractor Rescue Rod from Sebenza in South Africa visited TT-UK looking for the latest technologies available to them for the trenchless replacement and renewal of underground p... [more]

What's up with your trench project?
22.03.2012 - That was the question asked of Michael Depau on a daily basis by one of the US liaison officers at the Kelly Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany. Michael was in charge of a cable installation project for several weeks. In 2009 he became self-employed and ...

RSP/TT-UK Cyclone City Sucker proves its worth
01.03.2012 - What is thought to be the first cyclone design City Suction Excavator recently carried out trials throughout the UK on various National Grid and other contractors inner city jobsites. The trials were to prove the capabilities of the new TT-UK/R...

GRUNDODRILL 4X marks the spot for R&R McClure Excavations in Australia
29.02.2012 - During the No Dig Australasia Conference and Exhibition Tim McClure of R&R McClure Excavations Pty Ltd, visited the always impressive TT Asia Pacific Pty Ltd stand spending considerable time with the sales and service team looking in detail at th...

Installation of cable protection pipe through a nature reserve to a tide gauge
23.02.2012 - The tide gauge at Schleimünde is situated on the north side of the Schlei Estuary, approx 150 m along the coast side of the pilot island in the Baltic Sea. Energy supply and data transfer is carried out via 2 cables which run further from the ga...

900 m ductile cast iron pipe ND 600 replaced with HD-PE pipe OD 710
11.01.2012 - In Trondheim, Norway’s third largest City, an ND 600 drinking water transport pipeline, made of ductile and grey cast iron, had to be renewed over a total length of 900 m. The pipeline, originally installed in the late 60s, showed definit...

TT-UK maintains high quality standards
03.01.2012 - TT-UK the Quality Trenchless Technology equipment supplier is committed to maintaining high standard management systems for Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality practices and procedures. Following another audit by the Achilles UVDB Ve...

GRUNDORAM assisted Horizontal Directional Drilling in Saudi Arabia
22.11.2011 - Ramming machines are typically used to install steel pipes underneath traffic and waterways. In pipeline construction these machines are also applied to assist or rescue HDD bores. The Grundoram Taurus was recently used by Saudi Arabia...

Already thinking about winter?
15.11.2011 - Pneumatic tools already freeze at +5°C due to the extreme air compression. Prevent them effectively from freezing using the UHITHERM and MAXITHERM compressed air heaters. More......

TME 2011 - Trenchless TT equipment for the Middle East
07.11.2011 - With continued focus by TT-UK to expand their Middle East operations, the 2011 Trenchless Middle East Exhibition, which took place from October 10 – 11 in Dubai, proved once again to be the ideal venue for promoting the very latest equipm...

NO-DIG Roadshows showcasing the very best in Trenchless Technology
03.11.2011 - These No-Dig Roadshows are a series of one day events comprising an integrated exhibition and seminar programme. They also provide suppliers with an opportunity to participate at high quality forums on trenchless technology and to meet new audie...

Brisk Business In Brisbane for TT Asia Pacific
19.10.2011 - TT Asia Pacific reports brisk trading at the recent no dig conference held in Brisbane from October 3 -, 2011 at the national exhibition and conference centre and would like to thank all customers existing and new for taking time to visit us upon our...

GRUNDOMAT in Saudi Arabia
10.10.2011 - TT-UK in co-operation with their Saudi Arabian agent have recently carried out product training in the correct use and operational aspects of the Grundomat Soil Displacement technique for installing service pipes and cables throughout the Kingd...

Review of No Dig South Africa 2011
27.09.2011 - Reef Trenchless Technology, TT-UK’s distributor for South Africa, were delighted with the outcome and enquiry results of the inaugural No-Dig South Africa held recently at the CSIR International Conference Centre in Pretoria....

New TT sales partner in Lithuania
21.09.2011 - The TT Group welcomes a new international sales partner: UAB GRUNDOTECH is to promote and distribute the line of trenchless pipe installation and replacement products in Lithuania represented by Mr. Valdas Kleiba (see p...

Underground cabling in rock beneath railway line, motorway and main road
19.09.2011 - It was almost a year ago that the company Clemens Reuschenbach in Germany was involved with ground cabling measures for the connection service line from the villages Puderbach to Oberhonnefeld with two 20 kV cables and a glass fibre cable. The r...

TT Asia Pacific at NO-DIG Down Under 2011
15.09.2011 - At NO-DIG Down Under, which will take place from October 3 - 6, 2011 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, TT Asia Pacific will be exhibiting an impressive range of trenchless products from the TT Group range....

TT-UK's all weather Training Facility
07.09.2011 - Despite the weather or unseasonable conditions, customer training is able to proceed at TT-UK’s bespoke indoor trenchless training facility. A real live working trench has been constructed so as to assimilate, assess and train trenchless tec...

A story of success: TT-UK at Trenchless Middle East 2011
01.09.2011 - TT-Middle-East/TT-UK, together with Prime Drilling and Trinity Pumps, will be exhibiting at Trenchless Middle East on 10th/11th October 2011. The exhibition is being held at Jumeirah Beach Conference & Exhibition Centre in Dubai and TT-UK/P...

HDD Bore accessories online
18.08.2011 - On August 18, 2011 TRACTO-TECHNIK (TT) has launched a new website for HDD bore accessories at the internet address www.directional-drilling-accessories.com. With this online catalogue the reowned manufacturer of innovative trenchless pipe installatio...

GRD is presented at Pipeline Industries Guild event
10.08.2011 - Based on a joint paper with IGEM and UKSTT titled "GRD A Slanted Approach to Efficient Geothermal Heat Well Construction" TT-UK's GRD Operations Director Bilie Turner gives a lecture on the basic parameters and pratical ...

TT dealer Reef exhibits at No Dig South Africa
09.08.2011 - Due to the increased interest in the forthcoming No Dig South Africa to be held on 23rd and 24th August at the CSIR Convention Centre in Pretoria, Reef Trenchless Technology (sales partner of the TT Group of companies) have agreed a Bronze sponsorshi...

Replacement of an oval profile pipe using the bursting method
25.07.2011 - In Cologne/Germany an oval profile sewer made of concrete was to be replaced with a new plastic pipe of larger diameter directly at the rear of a building of the higher regional court . Bursting and upsizing this type of pipe is not carried out vey o...

HDD bore through a steep slope
21.07.2011 - When travelling on a 400 m high bridge on a mountain known in German as "Sollstedter Hölle", which in English means “Sollstedt Hell”, TT marketing manager Günter Naujoks asked himself whether this name was going ...

TT on Track
30.06.2011 - TT-UK in collaboration with the designers and manufacturers of the high quality RSP Suction Excavators, recently attended the increasingly popular Railtex exhibition at Earls Court over 14 – 16 June 2011. ...

Silent Night Lining with Grundoburst 400S
27.06.2011 - A GRUNDOBURST 400S was recently used as a pulling device to slipline a 21” cast iron water pipe for a new replacement 450mm SDR17 PE pipe in the Inner City of London....

Urban drainage wins trenchless pipe rehabiltion project
10.06.2011 - You don’t win a pipeline construction measure everyday, but Bettina Linke from the Urban drainage council in Hagen in Germany was the lucky winner of one. The prize included the trenchless rehabilitation of a sewage pipe using the TIP method an...

Grundodrill 7XP bores under a highway in South Africa
19.05.2011 - Rolkon Trenchless Technologies is a small company in Durban, South Africa, and is affiliated to TTSA who are based in Johannesburg. They are a rapidly growing, civil enterprise that seeks to supply a reputable service in the trenchless technology mar...

Trenchless connections combining Grundopit & Grundotugger
03.05.2011 - Property developers Oakland Partners contacted TT-UK because they had to connect new properties in Finedon to the existing sewer line which is 4 metres deep under the existing highway. Also the properties had to be connected to the existing storm wat...

‘US' Utility Services invest in the latest Grundoburst 800G to complete rehabiltation works on behalf of SE Water
29.04.2011 - TT Asia Pacific was recently contacted by ‘US’ - Utility Services to discuss the benefits of the Grundoburst pipeline rehabilitation systems for the replacement of ageing water mains on behalf of South East Water in the state of Victoria....

TT-Group presents lots of new items at NODIG 2011
12.04.2011 - At International NO DIG 2011 which will be held from May 2 - 5 in Berlin conjunction with WASSER BERLIN, Tracto-Technik (TT-Group) are presenting a variety of innovative machines and equipment for the trenchless installation and replacement of p...

Grundoram Apollo used for large-scale gas pipeline construction project
07.04.2011 - The world’s largest steel pipe ramming machine, the GRUNDORAM “APOLLO” from TT was recently used by Dutch civil engineering company DALCAI for ramming 32 km of Ø 1220 mmsteel pipes applications as part of the large-scale &ldq...

No need for buckets and spades at the seaside!
28.03.2011 - Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), like most electricity supply companies, is carrying out refurbishment of many of its sub-stations. This work involves fairly major excavations, both within each sub-station and around high voltage (HV) cables. Trad...

Reef expands its trenchless activities in South Africa
22.03.2011 - Reef Trenchless Technology South Africa, a family owned enterprise headed by brothers Willie and Chris Ehlers, was founded in 1996 and began in 1998 to Market, Sell and Distribute a complete range of Trenchless Technology Equipment and Accessories to...

No snow - all go on the TT-UK stand
14.02.2011 - Following the unfortunate last minute cancellation of Fusion Group’s Innovations Days last December due to the region’s worst snowfall in living memory, TT-UK, supplier to Fusion Provida of Grundomat impact moles and Grundowinch pipe and ...

The elixir of life in reliable pipelines
19.01.2011 - Austrian public utility company Stadtwerke Klagenfurt had to renew 1000 metres of drinking water pipeline within the municipal area. The the old grey cast iron pipes were successfully replaced with ZMU ductile iron pipes using the ipe bursting tecchn...

Installation of a 125 mm PE pipe with Grundopit
17.01.2011 - On behalf of Scottish & Southern Energy contractor Option Utility Services installled a 125 mm PE pipe over 21 m length using the Grundopit mini bore rig. A total of 3 different bores, which had to cross several existing mains, were made.&nb...

EU Skills Recognition of Learning programme accredited to TT-UK
30.11.2010 - Energy & Utility Skills (EU Skills) Recognition of Learning programme has been accredited to TT-UK Ltd. Family-owned business TT-UK, is the first company to receive the Recognition of Learning programme, as a service provider for Suction Excavato...

New methods for trenchless renewals and replacement of property connections
17.11.2010 - TT-UK have recently been exhibiting their products for trenchless renewal and new pipe installations, as well as house and commercial property service connections at the recent No-Dig Live Exhibition in Coventry, UK and International No-Dig Singapore...

HDD application in the world famous Château Margaux vineyard
22.10.2010 - Chateau Margaux, situated 25 km to the north of Bordeaux has become famous for its wine, which is among the best in the world. The vineyards covering 265 hectares even include both of the Margaux islands and Verte in the estuary of the river Gironde....

TT-UK Trenchless Technology Equiment ‘alive' and kicking
18.10.2010 - Following the success of the NO-DIG Live event held in 2008 at the Royal Showground in Warwickshire UK, the exhibition organisers Westrade Fair decided that due to ease of vehicular access, good on site parking and its central geographical location, ...

TUBOMAT 642 - A classic turns 40
15.09.2010 - It is older than some of the Tracto-Technik employees in plant 2 and eponym for the TT Group pipe fabrication division. What is meant is the TUBOMAT 642 hydraulic pipe bending machine which celebrates its 40th birthday these days and still enjoys gre...

Veolia Water Network Services make it five
24.08.2010 - Veolia Water Network Services has just added a Grundoburst 800G to its fleet of Tracto-Technik pipe bursting machines. The power and speed of the new machine made it the perfect choice for Veolia’s recent project in western Sydney....

No-Dig Live 2010: Powerful HDD rig at TT-UK Stand No 1.
16.08.2010 - TT-UK in co-operation with AMS No-Dig Ltd will be displaying their new PD250/90 Horizontal Directional Drilling Rig at No-Dig Live 2010 taking place from 5 - 7 October in Stoneleigh Park near Coventry/UK....

Next generation GPR Technology at National Grid Cable Avoidance Day
11.08.2010 - Prominent guests and speakers from the UK construction industry were ever present. Welcome and Introduction to the event was given by Michael Dyke, Director of UK Construction, National Grid, and Mark Fairbairn, Executive Director, Gas Distribution, ...

House connections installed with minimal invasion using the trenchless Keyhole Technology
26.07.2010 - The increasing sensivity of the residents affected, impairment of local infrastructure and mobility restrictions caused by installation projects using open-trench method are the driving force behind furher developments in trenchless installation tech...

TIP method with Burstform gains more importance
23.07.2010 - More than 30 engineers travelled to Salzgitter to gather information about the TIP method. During a demonstration there a pipe length of PE 192 x 13 mm was pulled in through a manhole into an old ND 200 stoneware pipe. The renewal of the sewer over a...

Manor farm harvests geothermal heat
20.07.2010 - Manor Farm is located on the edge of the beautiful village of Eyeworth and was constructed in 1865. The new owners drew up a sympathetic detailed restoration and modernisation plan for the building which incorporated under floor heating. In ode...

A major pipe bursting task in Geneva
19.07.2010 - It was a mammoth task for the PIASIO company, a daughter company of COLAS SWITZERLAND had ahead of them in Geneva Meyrin. Applying a GRUNDOBURST, Type 2500 G (250 t pulling force), an over-aged and under-dimensioned 500 mm drinking water transport pi...

Grundodrill 15N convinces Australian contractor CPL
22.06.2010 - “No Comparison When It Comes to Quality and Reliability” These were the words of CPL Australia Trenchless Technology owner, Eddie Lia. Having owned a Tracto-Technik Grundodrill 12G since 1999 Eddie recently took delivery ...

TTAP bursts the bubble on competition
26.05.2010 - Purchasing equipment for major projects is an important choice for contractors in the industry. TT's australian sister company TT Asia-Pacific tells of two projects using pipe ramming resp. bursting machines that helped with their successful comp...

Long HDD bore for the Garzweiler mines
05.05.2010 - Once again the bore team around Helmut Schürmann and Michael Foltin from the bore company REVOR were confronted with what was not an everyday task. Foltin is a casual character, well known for his phlegmatic calmness, but also for his know...

bauma 2010 marks a turnaround for the industry
03.05.2010 - bauma 2010 has marked a turnaround in the international construction machinery industry, ushering in the hoped-for change in sentiment. And this was despite the ban on air travel which impacted on the first few days of the fair....

Plans become reality for Wales & West utilities
20.04.2010 - Following its three-plus two year supplier agreement with gas distribution company, Wales & West Utilities, signed in 2008, MAN has delivered two new MAN TGS 26.440 6x2-4 BL chassis with ground-breaking suction excavation equipment from TT-UK and...

Sun, Sand and Sales enquiries for TT-UK/Middle East
07.04.2010 - 2010 Trenchless Middle East Exhibition, Abu Dhabi With continued focus by TT-UK (part of the TT Group) to expand their Middle East operations, the 2010 Trenchless Middle East exhibition proved once again that promoting the very latest equipment in T...

HDD application to let 'green' power flow underneath the Rhine
18.03.2010 - From 2009 until 2012 work will be carried out on the Rhine power plant Iffezheim (RKI) to be extended with a 5th turbine. Directly on the Rhine crossing of the B 500 to France, the largest Hydropower plant in Germany and one of the largest in Europe ...

Innovations for a better environment
02.03.2010 - TT-UK attended the Highways & Utilities Innovations Day held at Longbridge, Warwickshire on 10th February 2010. The event, organised in partnership with West Midlands HAUC, Severn Trent Water and Enterprise, ensured that the day was p...

Grundoburst - a Stornoway success
12.02.2010 - A Grundoburst 400G pipe bursting system supplied by TT-UK to leading Outer Hebrides contractor Duncan Mackay & Sons, has recently completed some demanding pipe bursting work in Dock Road and South Beach Street in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotlan...

TT-UK/TT Middle East presents BURSTFORM
03.02.2010 - At the first Underground Infrastructure Middle East Conference held in Bahrain from 18 – 19 January, TT-UK/TT Middle East presented for the first time in the Region their NEW Burstform, Tight in Pipe Trenchless renewal pipe system. ...

The new Grundodrill 15XP presented at BAUMA 2010
26.01.2010 - The new Grundodrill 15 XP is equipped with numerous high-tech-components which results in immense performance improvements and increased working and operating safety. The Grundodrill XP bore rigs and the complete range of TT systems for trenchless pi...

Trenchless installation of a new house connection sewer
12.01.2010 - The wastewater connection of a family home in Wildeshausen/Germany indicated some fractional damages, causing it to block regularly and then constantly needing to be rinsed free. Due to this reason a decision was made to install a new sewer....

TT-UK Seals the Deals at No-Dig India 2009
10.12.2009 - Brisk trading and good interest was the order of the week when TT-UK, part of the TT Group of companies recently exhibited at the No-Dig India (Trenchless Technology) Show held in New Delhi in November 2009....

TT Ireland makes new appointment
09.12.2009 - TT Ireland would like to announce the appointment of Stephen John Carass who will carry out the Sales and Marketing for TT Ireland....

GRUNDOMAT Mole supply contract renewed by National Grid
20.11.2009 - Following an exhaustive tender bid procedure through the Achilles UVDB Scheme, National Grid has awarded the GRUNDOMAT Earth Displacement Mole supply contract to TT-UK, part of the International TT Group of Companies....

TT Asia Pacific: Best booth at Trenchless Australasia 2009
09.10.2009 - TT Asia Pacific has been awarded ‘best booth’ for their stand at the 8th National ASTT Conference and Exhibition held recently in Melbourne, Australia. Trenchless Australasia 2009 is the largest trenchless event ever held in the Southern ...

TT-UK achieved high quality and safety standards
07.10.2009 - TT-UK is committed to maintaining high standard management systems for Health & Safety, Environmental and Quality practices and procedures. This was recently certified as result of an audit....

Large-scale pipe bursting in the brazilian city of Campinas
17.09.2009 - As part of a large-scale municipal pipe rehabilitation programmen in the brazilian City of Campnias, a 30 year old defective asbestos cement drinking water pipeline was replaced with a new PE pipe ND 63 over 400 m length using the static pipe burstin...

Static pipe bursting using vitrified clay jacking pipes
14.09.2009 - The city of Phoenix, Arizona, recently undertook a large-scale sanitary sewer static pipe bursting programme utilizing vitrified clay (VCP) jacking pipe as the replacement pipe material. The total project consisted of upsizing of nearly 1.5 km of &Os...

Rivercrossing in Oxfordshire using the Grundodrill
29.08.2009 - Options Utility Services Ltd recently carried out under crossing of the river Cherwell using their recently accquired Grundodrill HDD rig....

GAP relies on cable winches from TT-UK
27.08.2009 - GAP has been adding to their fleet of cable winches over the past few months as a result of winning new business on a variety of contracts. The orders placed with TT(UK) for the Cable Winches are in excess of £400k....

Rivercrossing in Oxfordshire using the Grundodrill
27.08.2009 - Options Utility Services Ltd recently carried out under crossing of the river Cherwell using their recently accquired Grundodrill HDD rig....

EON connects the island Helgoland to the power network
20.08.2009 - Up to now power was supplied to the island of Helgoland in the North Sea via Diesel power engines which were starting to age. The 7 million litres of Diesel consumed annually are omitted in the future and also 17.500 tons of CO². Now a 20 millio...

TRACTO-TECHNIK one of the TOP 100 in innovation 2009
24.07.2009 - A consequent focus on its innovation management capabilities is the vital success strategy for Germany’s 100 most innovative medium-sized companies. This is the result of a recent survey which also included TRACTO-TECHNIK....

TT Group extends Internet Video service
23.07.2009 - TRACTO-TECHNIK (TT Group) has extended its Internet video service. Via a brand new, easy to navigate video portal numerous online videos can be watched, rated or recommended....

Constructing an underpass below a box culvert using Grundoram
23.07.2009 - Construction company Dragages from Singapore was contracted to shore and construct an underpass below a huge box culvert and parallel to a technical tunnel in Singapore Marina Bay using the Grundoram Gigant steel pipe ramming machine. The size of the...

Prime-Drilling supply equipment destined for Saudi Arabia
22.07.2009 - Company DCL Ltd based in Al-Khobar Saudi Arabia who earlier this year were congratulated for their outstanding achievement on the 2 no 3km world record undersea 24” and 30” pipeline crossings on the Berri Causeway project have increased t...

TT-UK at BAGELA's 25th Anniversary
15.07.2009 - TT-UK’s GRUNDOWINCH management staff recently attended the Bagela 25th Anniversary celebrations. Bagela are renowned for manufacturing the highly acclaimed GRUNDOWINCH range of cable and pipe pulling installation equipment....

Sewer replacement with diameter upsizing
29.06.2009 - In the face of the tight public cash funds available and the increasing requirement to renew pipes, the municipal sewage company (EBS) of the City of Tuttlingen decided to carry out the diameter upsizing of a sewer, with a length of 120 m along the s...

Grundodrill 15 XP installs district heating pipe
29.06.2009 - The castle Laer in Meschede in Germany, which was the ancestral seat of the Duke of Westphalia Fuerstenberg, is to be converted to district heating during the next heating period. The oil heater will then be switched off, but not completely dismantle...

TT-UK at SED 2009 - Quality not Quantity
11.05.2009 - Quality not quantity was the order of the day at the recent SED held at Rockingham Speedway over 12 to 14 May. TT-UK’s new stand location 146 Avenue C/P was larger than previous years with TT-UK demonstrating a wide range of Trenchless Technolo...

Grundoburst 400S manhole burster establishes UK record
27.04.2009 - In Barry/UK an old vitrified clay sewer ND 300 has been replaced with a PC pipe ND 250 mm from within an existing manhole using the Grundoburst 400S rig. For the first time in the UK this diameter pipe has been burst out from within a manhole....

Bursting in Hastings/New Zealand with Grundoburst 800G
27.04.2009 - Recently contractor East Coast Utilities Ltd replaced a 150 mm clay sewer pipe with 150 mm PVC restraint pipe in Hastings, New Zealand using the Grundoburst 800G. In very close proximity to the host pipe an 11,000 volt power cable was discovered. (...

Grundoburst 400S manhole burster establishes UK record
22.04.2009 - In Barry/UK an old vitrified clay sewer ND 300 has been replaced with a PC pipe ND 250 mm from within an existing manhole using the Grundoburst 400S rig. For the first time in the UK this diameter pipe has been burst out from within a manhole....

Prime Drilling rig used for high-standard HDD project
21.04.2009 - Mears Group Inc. recently installed a 10-inch (254 mm) steel pipeline in the city limits of Billings/Montana (USA) using an HDD rig built Prime Drilling and specially custom designed for Mears. The 1,635-foot (500 m)line replaced the existing product...

TT Asia Pacific and Tenix build partnership
23.03.2009 - Tenix Alliance is one of Australasia's leading infrastructure engineering providers with services spanning design, construction and maintenance to water, power, gas, industrial and transport sectors in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific...

BUDERUS Info Day at TT Germany
16.03.2009 - Numerous sales partners of Buderus Giesserei Wetzlar GmbH and their customers from many European countries visited TRACTO-TECHNIK in Lennestadt, the leading manufacturer of trenchless installation technology, after accepting an invitation from the du...

TT-UK / TTME represented at Trenchless Middle East 2009
09.03.2009 - TT-UKs Sales Manager, Daniel Toms, and Business Development Manager, Roger Atherton, report brisk trading following their attendance at the recent Trenchless Middle East 2009 held at Jumeirah Beach Conference and Exhibition facilities in Dubai. ...

House connection with Grundobore 200S auger boring system
03.03.2009 - On a property next to the TT premises in Lennestadt´/Germany a house connections had to be completely re-installled. The TT crew carried out the complete replacement of the pipeline with a new one using its Grundobore Type 200 S pilot...

Spectacular undersea HDD recovery with Grundoram
25.02.2009 - TT-UK were contacted by the Middle East specialist HDD Contractor Digital Connection Co Ltd of Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). They sought technical advice and assistance in the recovery of a 42” hole-opener that had become stuck alon...

GRUNDOMAT sets new Record in South Africa
24.02.2009 - South African contractor Jacked Pipelines have done 26,312.8m of 63mm Grundomat moling and 1,304.5m of 110mm moling within the last two years - a new record!...

TT-UK ‘Bursting-Out' in India
09.02.2009 - The City of Mumbai (Bombay) with a population of about 15 million people has been growing at about 4.3 percent per year. Over the past 50 years, in an effort to develop the urban infrastructure and keep pace with rapid population growth, a high prior...

TT-UK ‘Bursting-Out' in India
30.01.2009 - The City of Mumbai (Bombay) with a population of about 15 million people has been growing at about 4.3 percent per year. Over the past 50 years, in an effort to develop the urban infrastructure and keep pace with rapid population growth, a high prior...

Grundomat success in Oman
19.12.2008 - Due to the increased demand for Broadband Telecommunications and Internet access the Oman Fiber Optic Company has been challenged with the task of laying a fibre optic cable network into the major cities of Muscat and Sohar and the entire Batinah Reg...

Petrology On-Line with the world's first 40t all-terrain Grundowinch
01.12.2008 - As a leading Trenchless Technology equipment specialist manufacturer and supply partner to many major UK Contracting, Civil and Utility organisations, TT-UK were the ideal choice when Petrology needed a very special winch unit for their unique subsea...

TT-UK customer National Grid invests in specialist vehicles
17.11.2008 - TT-UK customer National Grid has placed an order for 10 suction excavator vehicles with Hitachi Capital Commercial Vehicle Services. The specialist vehicles will enable the utility provider to carry out their national gas pipe replacement programme w...

Underwater bore - 400 m out to the Baltic sea
15.10.2008 - In the german holiday resort Kühlungsborn, the Baltic sea supplies the mineral water for a public wellness swimming pool at the beach hotel Morada , which is currently being built. Suction and outlet pipes ND 160 made of PE provide access ...

TT-UK stand pulled in visitors at NO-DIG Live 2008
06.10.2008 - Following the success of the NO-DIG event held in 2006 at the Royal Showground in Warwickshire UK, the exhibition organisers Westrade Fair decided that due to ease of vehicular access, good on site parking and its central geographical location, to ag...

192 m district heating pipes installed with HDD system
26.08.2008 - In the lower Saxon region Hessisch Oldendorf in Germany - a town with approximately 20.000 inhabitants on the River Weser - the company E.ON Westfalen Weser Energie-Service GmbH, Kirchlengern, is building a biogas plant. The plant will produce 1...

Grundopit 40/60 working for County Council in Ireland
02.07.2008 - Shareridge Limited, a utility contractor based in Waterford contacted TT Ireland to carry out a demonstration using a Grundopit 40/60 mini-directional boring system for the project they are currently employed by Waterford County Council. The demonstr...

The 1000 mm cutter
25.06.2008 - The new roller blade is not exactly an everyday object, which TRACTO-TECHNIK recently delivered to Russia. It is supposed to be applied for the renewal of drinking water pipes and pipelines to be installed with the pipe-bursting method. The largest G...

Enthusiastic pipe bursting users in Poland
25.04.2008 - Pipe bursting is a method for replacing damaged pipes which are no longer statically stable. It is applied where repair or renovation is no longer economically viable. Poland is one of the countries where the Grundoburst technique from TT has won man...

Stockton Drilling strengthen their HDD activities
23.04.2008 - TT-UK and their HDD sales specialist partner Prime Drilling in Germany, reached an agreed sale and supply of a PD 250/90 HDD drill rig with Specialist Pipeline and HDD contractor Stockton Drilling in the UK. Operating nationally and world-wide; Stock...

Spectaclur cable plow application
18.03.2008 - Installation of a new drinking water pipeline from an elevated tank to supply a youth hostel and a lodge near the ski lift in the winter sport region of Schmallenberg in western Germany....

Challenging Grundodrill 25N job in Germany
17.03.2008 - Huge pipes underneath narrow streets - The cross-town link in the small town of Mülhausen in Germay recently was the stage for a spectactular HDD application where the company BLK installed a drainage pipe ND 700....

Vienna water pipe - EUROfit with pipe bursting
16.03.2008 - The water works in Vienna had the task of replacing a 100 year old grey cast iron pipe in the Main Prater Alley. The pipeline is situated close to the Ernst Happel football stadium, which will be used during the European Football Championship 2008 an...

Pipe exchange with Grundoram under highway in Saudi Arabia
10.03.2008 - In late 2007 a special pipe ramming project was carried out in Saudi Arabia. The task was to pipe-exchange an installed 30” sacrificial steel casing and to replace with a new steel 30” oil pipeline 110m under the main highway between Damm...

TT Technologies Announces New Regional Manager
10.03.2008 - The TTGroup's US sister company TT Technologies announced that George Mallakis will join the company as a regional manager in California. This is a new position created to better serve TT Technologies’ customers on the West Coast. Mallakis ...

UMS - First Suction Excavator in Scotland
21.02.2008 - In January 2008, Underground Moling Services Ltd, part of the Turriff Group of Companies, became the first company in Scotland to take delivery of a TT-UK/RSP Suction Excavator high speed single fanned machine. This is the first of two ordered by Und...

Curved bore expanded to 570 mm over 75 m
22.01.2008 - Even carrying out relatively short HDD bores can be a pretentious challenge, as was the case in Issenbütten near Braunschweig in Germany. The contracor had to install a 400 mm protection pipe for a 315 mm drinking water pipeline in a resid...

Pipe bursting 250 km north of the Arctic Circle
18.01.2008 - At first a pipe bursting task north of the Arctic Circle is hardly conceivable, but it really did happen in Swedens most northern community Kiruna. Contractor Oden AB replaced a cement coated grey cast iron water pressure pipe ND 500 with a PE pipe O...

Rock drilling below motorway
14.01.2008 - Contractor NWR carried out a challenging bore task with Grundodrill 15N. A deep level bore had to be established below the A45 motorway through an exisiting dip. The new drinking water pipe (HD-PE OD 125 mm) is supposed to connect the City of Mü...

Tricky HDD bore under a motorway near Cologne
11.01.2008 - The pre-construction works for the expansion of the A1 motorway near Cologne included two parallel bores (1 x OD 450, 2 x OD 160 as a bundle) over 138 m length below the motorway using the Grundodrill 15N....

Pipe installation underneath lake Müritz/Germany
10.01.2008 - The current capacity of the power supply network had to be increased to ensure the supply for an expansion of an industrial park in Malchow near the lake Müritz the province of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. A pipeline below lake Müritz wit...

Grundodrill 15N installs 450mm PEpipe parallel to main road
19.12.2007 - The drinking water supply network in the comminity of Steinhagen/Germany had to be extended. The exisiting transport pipe OD 300 was to be closed down, but so that it could be re-activated at any time. The new PE drinking water pipeline OD 450 was to...

Challenging HDD rock bore in Germany
03.12.2007 - German contractor Meyer & Meyer had to fulfill a special task: the installation of a pipe bundle consisting of two protection pipes HDPE Ø 160 mm, a HDPE gas pipe Ø 110 mm and a HDPE drining water pipe &Osla...

Grundoram builds train tunnel roof in Bejing
30.11.2007 - As part of Beijing's infrastructure projects for the Summer Olympics 2008 a light railway connection between the City and the Capital Airport is being built on be-half of the Beijing Railway Burea. The tunnel roof was built using the pipe ramming...

TTUK celebrates 25th Anniversary
30.11.2007 - In an ever changing technological and economic climate, Bedford based TT-UK and it's hardworking team continue to build on their successes, offering turn-key methods and equipment solutions to Trenchless Technology problems and continued improvem...

Czech TT sales partner opens new premises
23.11.2007 - Interglobal Duo, TT's long-time sales partner in the Czech Republic, recently moved into a new and even larger company building. On the occasion of the opening Interglobal presented the complete range of TT product to existinng and potential cust...

Pipe burstinng in Austria
20.10.2007 - Austrian contractor Fürholzer GmbH successfully repalced an old rainwater sewer ND 300, made of steel armoured concrete with a PE pipe ND 400. The old pipeline was neither stati-cally or hydraulically in accordance with today's requirements....

Grundopit S - Accuracy beyond doubt
03.10.2007 - TT UK Ltd we were recently approached to assist with a trenchless solution to install 110mm OD Gravity lateral connections on a new sewage scheme. Site constraints included 1050mm diameter concrete rings and 600mm square manhole covers. The biscuits ...

Undercrossing the River Mosel with extended uphill bore
20.09.2007 - The Grundodrill 20S was used to do a difficult uphill bore over a total length of 276 m. Reason for the bore was the installation of a new drinking water - transportation pipe STC TW PE 180 x 24,9 mm to supply the youth hostel Burg Landshut, situated...

First task for Grundoburst 2500 G in Russia
12.09.2007 - Russian contractor MUP Wodokanal from Klin had the task of renewing an open slope sewage pipe, trenchlessly at a depth of 1,50 to 7,00 m using the static pipe bursting method. The pipe to be replaced was a steel-armoured concrete pipe ND 560 damaged ...

New TT sales partner in Iceland and Estonia
06.09.2007 - The TT Group welcomes two new international sales partners: In Iceland IMPEX is to promote the line of trenchless pipe laying and pipe replacement products in Iceland represented by Mr Finnbogi Palsson (see photo)...

Grundoram undercrosses Trans Pennine gas pipeline
06.08.2007 - A 52 km section of Trans Pennine pipeline is one of four new sections of high pressure pipeline to be installed on behalf of National Grid, this is part of programme to transport gas from the Norwegian owned Ormen-Lange North Sea Gas Field to the new...

TT Technologies' Chris Brahler is 'Trenchless Person of the Year'
01.07.2007 - For all of his contributions to the trenchless industry Chris Brahler, president of TT's US sister company TT Technologies has been selected the '2007 Trenchless Person of the Year' by the renowned US trade magazine Trenchless Technology ...

Another award for TRACTO-TECHNIK
30.03.2007 - In March 2007 TRACTO-TECHNIK was handed over the 'CDU-Innovation Award' by Prime Minister Dr. Jürgen Rüttgers. The Federal State Secretary of Trade and Industry, Christa Thoben, emphasized in her explanatory speech, that successful comp...

BAUMA 2007 - in high spirits
06.01.2007 - There wasn't hardly any visitor or exhibitor who wasn't impressed by this year's BAUMA exhibition in Munich. This goes for TT as well. The positive prevailing mood and the booming market resulted in a relaxed atmosphere which lead to incr...

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