News & Press Releases

Tensar International’s newly developed RE500 series of uniaxial geogrids have been awarded British Board of Agrément Certification* for roads, bridge abutments, retaining walls, slopes and embankments in UK highway construction. RE500 uniaxial geogrids show significant long term strength improvements to create potentially lower cost structures for clients.

Prominent landscape features for Nottingham’s new high sustainability Castle College Technology Park and Number 1 Science and Technology Park are the surrounding green embankments. By using a Tensartech earth retaining solution from Tensar International, construction company Morgan Ashurst was able to realise the architect’s design over very weak ground as well as provide the most cost-effective solution and prevent soil from going into landfill by re-using it in construction.

A UK innovation has won a construction award in the USA. Tensar International’s innovative TriAx™ geogrid gained the prestigious 2009 Best New Products Top Rollouts Award from Better Roads® Magazine, following its launch in North America. The only award in its category, it was one of only 20 products ‘that enriched the highway and bridge construction industry’ in 2009.

Lincolnshire’s flagship new Epic Centre for sustainable building has strengthened its ground-breaking credentials with an unexpected cost saving solution using earth retaining technology from Tensar International.

Following November 21’s flood destruction of the town’s bridges over the River Derwent in Workington, Cumbria, Army Royal Engineers have used Tensar International’s TriAx™ geogrid to help construct new bridge abutments for a 40 ton temporary footbridge. Connecting the north and south of the town, the actual bridge will take a week to assemble, and is expected to be in place for Monday 6th’s morning school run.

Tensar International have cut energy usage by 6% and improved boiler efficiency by about the same level through the use of a magnetic fuel treatment on one of its gas-fired steam-raising boilers. The Thomas Cochran steam raising boiler.

By developing a cost-effective, rapid and highly sustainable solution for the Brigg Line embankment in Lincolnshire, Arup and Network Rail, with Tensar International and support services and construction company Carillion, have demonstrated a reinforced soil retaining wall approach using geogrids cast into in-situ reinforced concrete wall facing units that can be used to solve similar challenging problems all over the world.

A BREAKTHROUGH in the construction of earth retaining structures in Saudi Arabia using technology from Tensar International has provided a safe and rapid solution to building 8m high bridge wing walls at two major infrastructure projects in Jeddah.

A CALL for industry and universities to drive forward key opportunities for research into polymer geogrid applications has been made following a successful symposium to mark 25 years of technological advancement in the field.

REAL cost and time savings can be achieved with Tensar International’s Tensartech Geocell Mattress System when new embankments are sited over weak and variable ground.

An ambitious £4m retail and infrastructure redevelopment project to build a 22m high plateau based on the sustainable re-use of colliery waste in a South Wales valley is believed to be the highest structure ever to be built from colliery spoil in Europe.

TESTS by Hertfordshire Highways (Hertfordshire County Council’s highways department) have confirmed that reinforcing the asphalt layer on a badly cracked road at a busy Hitchin roundabout with Tensar’s Glasstex paving composite, has extended pavement life by at least 4 years bringing about 40% savings in road maintenance.

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A MILESTONE symposium to mark 25 years of advancement in Polymer Geogrid research and development will bring UK academics and geotechnical practitioners together to review progress in the field of geogrid reinforcement and discuss the future direction of research and to deliver further advancements.

CHALLENGED with getting better value from tight budgets and reducing road maintenance costs, local and national highways engineers are turning to asphalt reinforcement technology from Tensar International.

THE PERFORMANCE of Tensar’s new TriAxTM geogrid has received a major endorsement from Geosynthetics professionals in China on the eve of its launch in the country.

In recognition of Tensar’s success in developing business in China, we have been announced as the winner of the North West Greater China Business Award 2009 which was organised by UK Trade & Investment and the North West Development Agency.

In diverting and rebuilding 2.1 km of minor road for UK COAL’s new Steadsburn surface mine, Tensar TriAx™ geogrid and Tensar Geocell foundation mattress technology is aiding support services and construction company Carillion PLC to achieve a stabilised foundation over old backfill with savings in cost and time, as well as low ecological impact.

TENSAR International will be demonstrating the performance properties of its geogrids as a cost-effective, sustainable means of maintaining trackbed stability through ballast reinforcement at Railtex on Stand 666.

VEGETATED embankments and steep slopes are favoured methods of construction for infrastructure projects, including roads, bridges and railways. Tensar International’s Tensartech NaturalGreen and GreenSlope Systems, for reinforced earth retaining slopes up to 45º and 70º respectively, offer rapid and low cost construction, proven performance, and high sustainability with excellent vegetated finishes to complement the local environment.

Tensar are proud to have been presented with two individual awards in the Czech Republic and Poland. The medals which were awarded for innovative new product “Tensar TriAx geogrid” follow on from the successful launch of the product in the UK in 2007 and the rest of Europe in 2008.

AFTER NEAR 25 YEARS IN SERVICE, the former Chief Executive Officer of Blackburn-based Tensar International, Jim Paul, passed away on Wednesday 25th June aged 59.

A YEAR since its launch, Tensar International’s innovative TriAx™ geogrid has won a hat trick of awards.

Tensar International has appointed civil engineer Tony Roe as its new International Sales Manager.

NEW WING WALLS for the Old Quarrington Bridge on the A688 Wheatley Hill to Bowburn Link Road in Co. Durham, required an aesthetic natural finish. Balfour Beatty Regional Civil Engineering used the Tensartech GreenSlope earth retaining system to ensure a highly attractive vegetated appearance, with sustainable construction, saving up to 20% in site time over alternative faced systems.

Contractors working on behalf of hotel developer New World Barnsley Ltd* and Concept Project management achieved carbon savings of 27% during the construction of the new Barnsley Ramada Encore Hotel. Tensar’s new TriAxTM ground stabilisation geogrids system was used to overcome soft ground conditions across approximately 2,500 sq m of the site, which is located off Junction 37 of the M1 at Capitol Park.

Specialist software shows carbon savings of up to 50% can be achieved using ground stabilisation geogrids

The Tensartech GreenSlope and Tensartech NaturalGreen brochures have now been published! These Tensartech Earth Retaining Systems are based on Tensar Technology and the proven performance of Tensar uniaxial geogrids.

The continuing battle by the British Aggregates Association (BAA) to protect its members’ interests against the UK’s Aggregate Levy, which it has termed a ‘stealth tax’, may have recently received a favourable recommendation from the European Court of Justice, but the so-called victory is not endorsed by all interested parties, points out Tensar International.

The new site for a WWII German U-boat, U-534, planned as a new tourist attraction on Merseyside, was reinforced by the swift installation of Tensar’s innovative TriAx™ geogrid to prevent the exhibit from sinking into the Mersey mud. Adopting this solution also saved the considerable cost and time penalties involved in conventional piled and reinforced concrete alternatives.

Consultants have specified Tensar Techology in the rebuilding of a deteriorating Polish highway, in order to meet current standards.

TENSAR RIDES THE TriAx™ REVOLUTION AT CIVILS 2008 STAND E100, at Civils 2008, (18-20 November 2008, Earls Court) Tensar International will be celebrating the outstanding success of its revolutionary TriAx™ geogrid one year on from its launch at the Civils 2008 exhibition on stand E100.

A new car parking area for 77 cars at Mansfield Community Hospital has been constructed with major savings in time, cost savings in materials and has made a reduced environmental impact, by using Tensartech Earth Retaining structure technology.

Tensar Geogrid has been used at a venue in Montenegro in preparation for two large concerts. The artists performing at this venue have so far included the Rolling Stones and soon to perform on 25th September will be world famous Madonna.

Long-standing LancsBEA member Tensar International is a world leader in the production and provision of soil reinforcement and ground stabilisation solutions.