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TBM arrives in LA
08 December, 2014
USA - The TBM cutterhead that will excavate portions of the Crenshaw/LAX light rail in Los Angeles arrived in late November from Germany, according to Metro Los Angeles.

Direct Pipe TBM delivered to Calgary
09 October, 2014
Canada - Calgary Tunnelling, a subsidiary of Enterprise Group, Inc., has taken delivery of a Direct Pipe TBM, manufactured by Herrenknecht, to install a 42-inch pipe casing under the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta.

Waterview Connection project reaches halfway point
07 October, 2014
NEW ZEALAND - The first of the twin 2.4km long road tunnels on the NZ Transport Agency’s Waterview Connection project has been completed. Alice, the project’s 14.4m diameter Herrenknecht EPBM, broke through on 29th September, at the end of her 10-month journey from Owairaka to Waterview.

Final breakthrough of Swedish tunnel achieved
07 October, 2014
SWEDEN - The final breakthrough of tunnelling work at the Hallandsås Tunnel, Sweden, has been achieved. The project used a Herrenknecht TBM to cut through the last meters of rock to the target shaft after eight years of tunnelling.

Martin Herrenknecht calls for expansion of technology education in Germany
02 September, 2014
GERMANY - Martin Herrenknecht sees a huge need for action to increase education and the promotion of young talent in the areas of science and technology, Herrenknecht announced last week.

Crossrail¹s Jessica breaks through
22 August, 2014
GREAT BRITAIN -Crossrail¹s TBM Jessica has completed a new train tunnel from Limmo Peninsula, near Canning Town, breaking into Victoria Dock Portal in east London. The 7.1m diameter TBM completed the journey in nine weeks, travelling up to 41m per day.

Four more TBMs arrive for Doha Metro project
17 June, 2014
Qatar Railways Company (Qatar Rail) has received four more TBMs for phase one of the Doha Metro project.

TBM retrieved from Lake Huron
12 June, 2014
Crews lifted a 78,000lb TBM from a shaft at the bottom of Lake Huron 850ft offshore as part of a water pipeline and intake project for Genesee County in Michigan.

STEC orders two giant TBMs for multipurpose tunnel
21 May, 2014
Chinese contractor and manufacturer Shanghai Tunnel Engineering Co Ltd (STEC), has placed an order for two Herrenknecht 15.76m diameter Mixshield TBMs. The machines will be used for a large multifunctional tunnel in Wuhan, central China.

Herrenknecht develops tunnelling concept for crossing beneath traffic arteries
21 May, 2014
Herrenknecht has developed the MH Box Machine for short crossings beneath traffic arteries. As the demand for new underground infrastructures for pedestrians and cyclists increases, the newly developed, rectangular profile of the shield skin meets the requirements of a pedestrian tunnel, the company stated.

Qatar Rail receives first Doha TBM
29 April, 2014
Qatar Rail has taken delivery of the first of 21 TBMs and the machine is expected to start work in the third quarter of this year at the Al Wahda site, next to the Qatar Exhibition Centre.

Fifteen Herrenknecht TBMs for Doha Phase One
27 February, 2014
A delegation of Qatar Rail representatives visited Schwanau, Germany on Monday. The visit to the Herrenknecht factories was to inspect the first of the 15 TBMs being manufactured the German machinery giant for the Doha Metro project.

First VFD breakthrough
16 January, 2014
The world's first variable density tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through at the site of the Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit¹s (MRT) Pasar Rakyat station, having bored a distance of around 1km, MRT in Malaysia announced earlier this month.

TBM excavates tunnel for Austrian hydropower plant
06 January, 2014
The Herrenknecht TBM has excavated a new headrace tunnel for the Bärenwerk hydropower plant in Fusch, Austria. In six months the machine drilled through 2.8km of solid rock in the Austrian Alps, the company stated last month.