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Lydall divests geosynthetic installation business

Lydall Inc., through its wholly owned subsidiary Texel Technical Materials Inc. (“Lydall”), announced today that it completed the sale of Texel Geosol Inc. (“Geosol”) on May 9, 2019, to FC Géosynthétiques Inc. (“FC”). Geosol installs geosynthetic products in the civil engineering and environmental protection sectors, principally within the province of Quebec, Canada. “The divestiture of Geosol [...]

By |2019-05-23T13:54:26-05:00May 23, 2019|

QA/QC for geosynthetics in waste containment is focus of GSI course

The Geosynthetic Institute (GSI) will host an online course entitled “Course 1: Quality Assurance/Quality Control of Geosynthetics in Waste Containment Facilities,” Oct. 16–18, 2018, from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT each day. Robert M. Koerner and George Koerner will teach the course. This is the first GSI [...]

By |2018-06-26T15:21:22-05:00June 26, 2018|

Owens Corning releases video of RCG deployment for USACE

On Feb. 7, 2018, Owens Corning released a video featuring Andy Durham, P.E., the company’s senior geosynthetics engineer based in Granville, Ohio, in a YouTube video on installing the RhinoMat reinforced composite geosynthetic (RCG) at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Full-Scale Levee Breach and Hydraulic Test Facility at the Engineer Research & Development [...]

By |2018-02-19T21:34:10-06:00February 17, 2018|

FGI expands Summer Internship Program

The Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (FGI) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) expanded its Summer Internship Program to three companies and six interns during the summer of 2017. The main objectives of the program are to introduce future civil engineers to the geosynthetics field and civil engineering construction, and to provide a connection between [...]

By , , , , |2017-11-28T10:13:43-06:00November 28, 2017|

GMA and FGI present webinar on fabrication, installation and testing of geomembranes

On Nov. 7, 2017, the Geosynthetic Materials Association (GMA) and the Fabricated Geomembrane Institute (GFI) will offer the webinar “Fabrication, Installation and Testing of Geomembranes” discussing the types of geomembranes that can be fabricated in the factory and subsequently transported to the field for installation and testing. The webinar begins at 12:00 p.m. EST and [...]

By |2017-10-10T15:20:48-05:00October 10, 2017|

TRD Bootcamp held

The Tent Rental Division (TRD) had a Boot Camp Tent Training for the Tent Professional at the MATRA Annual Conference in November in Dover, Del.

By |2015-12-18T19:24:07-06:00January 1, 2014|

California changes structural requirements for tents

Compiled by Juli Case We’ve heard that there’s a change in the requirements for installing tents in California. What can you tell us about that? One of our ATA members on the West Coast alerted us to this issue. The state of California recently adopted the International Building Code, but made a key change to [...]

By |2008-08-01T00:00:00-05:00August 1, 2008|
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