Herrenknecht becomes No-Dig Gold Sponsor

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Herrenknecht sponsors No-Dig Down Under

Herrenknecht AG, the world’s foremost manufacturer of tunnelling and microtunnelling machines, will be a Gold Sponsor of No-Dig Down Under.

Through innovation and development, Herrenknecht has expanded its equipment range with specialised pipeline installation technologies to become one of the most significant companies in the industry.

Its AVN microtunnel boring machines (MTBMs) are the world’s most common machine for the installation of 400 mm to 4 m pipelines via microtunnelling and have facilitated thousands of projects.

Herrenknecht MTBMs can be applied in almost all ground typologies with precise control, even with small radii in vertical and horizontal curves.

The company’s horizontal directional drilling (HDD) rigs offer pull forces from 80 to 600 t, along with a range of HDD tooling including full face hole openers (FFHO) for single-pass large diameter reaming stages, weeper subs and downhole jet pumps.

Herrenknecht’s Direct Pipe technology is used the world over for the single-pass installation of steel pipelines from 20 to 60 inches (508 to 1,524 mm) in difficult ground conditions, while its Pipe Thruster offers 300 to 750 t push/pull force to assist challenging HDD installations of longer pipelines and larger diameters.

Another patented technology, Herrenkencht’s Pipe Express® method works as a rapid, semi-trenchless, cross country pipeline installation system for 30 to 60 inches (762 to 1,524 mm), while the company also offers the E-Power Pipe® technology, which uses a microtunnel boring machine with jet pump (AVNS) for longer drives in small diameters.

Herrenknecht will sponsor the Official Exhibition Opening at NoDig Down Under on Tuesday 8 March 2022.

The company joins Platinum Sponsor Bothar, Gold Sponsor Vermeer Australia, Silver Sponsors Interflow, KRE Engineering and Rob Carr, and Bronze Sponsors Bamser, McConnell Dowell, Pipe Core and Wilmot Pipelining as supporters of No-Dig Down Under.

Due to the developing COVID-19 situation on Australia’s east coast, the event will now take place from 8-11 March 2022.

For more information and to secure your attendance visit

www.nodigdownunder.com