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2004

PR-INFO-KAEFER CONSTRUCTION DIVISION:NEW JOBS FOR KAEFER'S INNOVATIVE TUNNEL ROBOT

	A completely new railway line is being built between Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam to accommodate the French TGV train. This “High-Speed Line“ will lead over numerous bridges as well as through several tunnels. Near Dordrecht in the Netherlands, the TGV will go through 2 tunnels, passing under the Maas and Kil rivers. These two double-tube tunnels will be fitted with a total of 50,000 m² of fire protection panels by KAEFER with the help of the innovative tunnel robot first used for the construction of the Weser Tunnel near Bremerhaven. The two tubes of the ”Oude Maas” tunnel are each 1,050 m long, and those of the “Dordtsche Kil” tunnel are each 973 m long. KAEFER will carry out the task, commissioned by the Dutch enterprise HSL-Combinatie Drechtse Steden, on a 2-shift basis between June and October 2004. Decisive reasons for awarding KAEFER the contract and using the tunnel robot were the great productivity of the solution and the excellent quality of the assembly work. The client had words of high praise for the tunnel robot when it was demonstrated: “Now that’s what we call innovation!“
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