Bekaert Underground Solutions

26/05/2021

The new and improved Murfor® Compact requires less material than the classic Murfor®. This saves precious time as well as considerable installation costs for your next project. Find out more about the benefits of Murfor® Compact 👉 https://bit.ly/3fOvhmj

10/08/2020

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23/07/2020

The Lee Tunnel, the largest tunnel ever built in London, was reinforced with steel fibers. Interested to know what other projects we helped reinforce? Like and follow Bekaert Construction.

06/07/2020

Bekaert moves its US production activities to Wilkes-Barre, PA. The company continues to invest in high quality steel fiber production in the US in order to meet ‘US made and melted’ requirements. 🇺🇸

The US construction market increasingly puts its trust in Bekaert. To meet the growing demand for Dramix® steel fiber concrete reinforcement, Bekaert will move its US production activities to a larger, modern facility in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Here we will produce our existing range of Dramix....

13/05/2020

UCA has turned the annual North American Tunneling Conference into NATWeek: A Virtual Experience. Join the technical sessions with top industry experts on June 8-12 from the comfort of your own home.
Learn more about : virtual.natconference.com

UCA's mission has always been to deliver the most up-to-date and comprehensive industry knowledge to our members regardless of where you are located. With this in mind, UCA has turned the annual North American Tunneling Conference into NATWeek: A Virtual Experience. UCA's first ever virtual conference will feature many of the same highly-anticipated speakers as NAT, as well as additional panel discussions and trade show features unique to NATWeek.
Learn more about UCA's newest professional development experience.
http://virtual.natconference.com/

13/05/2020

First quarter trading update 2020: Strong Q1 performance positions Bekaert well to confront the crisis.

We project Q2 sales to markedly decline in different sectors that are relevant to us. While the magnitude of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the global economy has become visible, its duration remains highly uncertain. We therefore have no visibility on a full-year impact in our markets and o...

06/02/2020

The Jansen mine shafts in Canada are reinforced with Dramix steel fibers. Want to find out why Dramix steel fibers are the perfect concrete reinforcement solution for your project? Come talk to us at the 2020 SME Annual Conference (Phoenix, AZ - booth 706).

24/01/2020

Want to learn more about fiber reinforced shotcrete? Read the article on page 12 of the Shotcrete Magazine; written by our colleague Bill Geers & Antoine Gagnon (Laval University).

shotcrete VOLUME 21, NUMBER 4 • FALL 2019 A quarterly publication of the American Shotcrete Association MAGAZINE www.shotcrete.org Inspection/Testing

01/01/2020

Happy New Year, everybody! Let's build a strong, safe and successful 2020 together!

24/12/2019

Merry Christmas from all of us at Bekaert! 🎄 We hope you have a wonderful time and get to spend the holidays with all your loved ones. Enjoy!

12/12/2019

On 31 October 2019, we concluded the buy-out of Maccaferri's 50% share in Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions. As a result, our Underground Solutions team will from January onward work under the Bekaert name, offering you the same quality products and services you are used to. Read more here:

On 31 October 2019, Bekaert concluded the buy-out of Maccaferri's 50% share in Bekaert Maccaferri Underground Solutions (BMUS). As a result, the Underground Solutions team will from January onward work under the Bekaert name. Customers will not notice any difference in service level. Bekaert will co...

04/12/2019

Let's celebrate by taking a look back at the Lee Tunnel. This 6.9 km long tunnel in East London was finished in 2016 and is reinforced with over 2000 tons of Dramix steel fibers.

31/10/2019

We hope you'll have a 👻 spooky 👻Halloween!

29/10/2019

Thank you to our afternoon speakers at Underground Solutions Seminar . Bernard Bergé regarding A mega project: the suppliers & contractors view, david hicks regarding Manufacturing SFRC segments and John Corcoran regarding Operational aspects for the installation of a SFRC final lining.

29/10/2019

Thank you to our next morning speakers at Underground Solutions Seminar in . Sotiris Psomas regarding Considerations in choosing SFRC for tunnel linings and regarding The oldest SFRC segmentally lined metro tunnel in the world.

29/10/2019

Thank you to our first speakers at Underground Solutions Seminar in . regarding Design of SFR structures and regarding Specifying and testing FRC.

28/10/2019

⚠️ Paper alert! ⚠️
The Model Code 2010 is a very important milestone for the underground business.

In this paper Marco Di Prisco, Matteo Colombo and Daniele Dozio discuss the simplified models suggested for the composite and presented them in the material section to evaluate the uniaxial tension residual strength, mainly given by fibre pull-out.

You can read the full paper here:

25/10/2019

Did you already see our newest brochure about Fibre Reinforced Cast in place? Topics like the applications field, material properties, durability and the approach are getting discussed 📚.