TPT May 2010

T echnology U pdate

Denlok technology reduces disruption

Bending and end-finishing

WAUSEON Machine & Manufacturing produces a wide range of equipment, specialising in tube benders, end-formers, end-finishers and crimpers. It also specialises in customisation, automation and 2D and 3D design. The company also performs tooling design, tryout and validation, capability studies, mechanical and electrical

engineering support and field service as well as other services that are requested by customers. Wauseon Machine & Manufacturing Inc – USA Fax: +1 419 335 1640 Email: sales@wauseonmachine.com Website: www.wauseonmachine.com

DENLOK, manufactured by Yorkshire based drainage solutions company Naylor, is available from 150mm to 700mm diameter and has been widely used to minimise the impact of civil engineering works in our streets and cities. Production and installation of Denlok also has an exceptionally low carbon footprint – clay is a naturally occurring material, is in abundant supply, and has low embodied energy and unrivalled longevity. In contrast to open cut installation the environmentally beneficially, trenchless technology is characterised by minimal surface disruption over a much shorter period of time, less soil going to landfill, and less newly quarried materials being needed for backfill. On a well-managed trenchless project, the public will not be aware that major construction work is actually going on below them. Trenchless technology is no longer the preserve of the specialist with expensive kit and a high degree of expertise. It offers a lower cost alternative to open cut pipe laying; it will save the costs of lane rentals, road closures, reinstatements, landfill and aggregate tax. The tunnelling equipment has become less expensive and easier to use. When pipes need to be installed under waterways, railways and heavily trafficked areas or in groundconditionswhere it is simply toodifficult for trenches to be economically constructed and worked, trenchless installation is the only sensible approach.

Naylor Industries – UK Email: sales@naylor.co.uk Website: www.naylor.co.uk

The Denlok tehnology in action

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