tunnel boring machine: 2 of 13

 Together with representatives of the client and customer, Martin Herrenknecht presses the start button that triggers the rotation of the cutterhead on the fourth TBM out of five order for the tunnelling between Lyon and Turin
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Tunnel brings France and Italy closer together

Acceptance ceremony takes place for one of five TBM that will cross the Alps between Lyon and Turin

15 January 2024

 The 125t cutterhead for HS2’s latest TBM being moved into place
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Second HS2 TBM gets ready to start digging under Birmingham

Latest HS2 TBM to be made up of parts from machine used on previous section of the project

14 December 2023

 STRABAG has reached the 25.8km mark for the world’s longest single tunnel boring machine drive at the Woodsmith project in the UK
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World tunnelling record: STRABAG breaks 25km mark in single TBM drive

A tunnelling world record has been set in the UK by STRABAG using a Herrenknecht TBM

11 December 2023

 A TBM has installed a 252m long tunnel and section of water main from Broomloan Road in to the north side of Bellahouston Park under Glasgow
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TBM breaks through under Glasgow

Breakthrough takes place under Glasgow on Scottish water main tunnelling project

01 September 2023

 The second bore of the Silvertown tunnel under the Thames in London has now been completed
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Tunnelling complete at Silvertown Tunnel in east London

Boring work has been completed on the latest tunnel to cross below the river Thames in London

11 August 2023

 One of HS2's London TBMs placing a tunnel segment
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HS2 tunnelling in London passes the first milestone

The first mile of tunnelling under London by two of HS2's TBM has now been completed

31 July 2023

 TBM specialist Acciona has become lead investor of Saalg Geomechanics, a software and engineering startup that predicts real ground movement
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TBM specialist invests in machine learning startup

Machine learning startup gets investment from Spanish tunnelling specialist

20 July 2023

 Terratec has delivered a 3.85m diameter Rock Slurry TBM to the Mumbai Sewage Disposal Project-Stage II, PST-1 project in India
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Terratec delivers Rock Slurry TBM for Mumbai sewage disposal project

A TBM with a slurry system has been supplied by Terratec for use on an Indian infrastructure project

18 July 2023

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