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Milestone for a strategic railway project: in late June, the last of two Herrenknecht Single Shield TBMs successfully completed its drive for the new railway line between Rishikesh and Karnaprayag in the Indian Himalayas. The first machine had already reached its destination in mid-April. Now both parallel tubes of the more than 20-kilometer-long tunnel system are complete. The young Himalayas ...

The so-called Terra Invader systems can penetrate up to 8000 m into the earth in order to tap oil, gas or geothermal resources (Figure 1). The latter are becoming more and more important in times of increasingly scarce fossil resources. This is down to their high availability: there are huge amounts of geothermal energy around the world. The market leader for ...