The 6,35 metre Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) will be used by Turkish company GULERMAK to construct the subway in Cluj-Napoca. It cost 15 million dollars. The TBM "Cârtițele” has passed the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) and it has...

CRCHI delivers the TBM to build the Cluj-Napoca subway. Suddenly there is an interest in Chinese companies in Romania. Sometimes wrongly. For example CREG is said to have drilled the famous Eurotunnel. I don't understand. Here is article. You...

  National Grid is reaching a major milestone on the Eryri Visual Impact Provision (VIP) scheme with the arrival of its tunnel boring machine (TBM) to the project site. A total of 27 deliveries through north wales will deliver theTBM in...

A new TERRATEC TBM is being lowered in the Metropolitan Waterworks Authority’s Ninth Bangkok Water Supply Improvement project in Thailand. In early October, a TERRATEC 4.8m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machine (EPBM) is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FIAc0BOJ9w Global Times report the TBM "Jianghai" has diameter of 16.64 meter. It was developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corp (CRCHI) together with China Railway 14th Bureau Group...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7MMGyqY4GA In the Shaftview, this post with the unusual title stood out: ' “We should stop buying German equipment”: Piyush Goyal confronts German Vice Chancellor over China blocking sale of German...

Heavy transport. https://www.ajot.com/news/successful-transport-of-286-ton-tunnel-drilling-machine-from-singapore-to-thailand-by-xlp-member-fls-projects

With a cutter head spanning over 13 metres in diameter, the TBM that has arrived in Salerno is equipped with 18 motors generating a total of 10 Megawatts of power and will operate 24/7 Originating from Paris and headed to dig tunnels on the same...

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/India/robbins-tbm-to-provide-bearings-for-slbc-project-in-hyderabad/ar-AA1oH8VC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7u1wi1nd8A The largest infrastructure project in South Australian history has ordered its tunnel boring machines. And twice the number of tunnel boring machines previously planned. According to government...

Please read post by Teodor Adamczyk : The M2 line in Warsaw was bored by four TBM shields from the German company Herrenknecht AG - Maria and Elisabetta and - working on the Bemowo section of the M2 line - Anna and...

The Suburban Rail Loop is powering ahead with tunnel boring machines on the way, two from the Sydney Metro. https://beat.com.au/suburban-rail-loop-to-repurpose-enormous-sydney-metro-machines/

from Victoria Premier's release; The Allan Labor Government’s Suburban Rail Loop is powering ahead with the first four tunnel boring machines (TBMs) now ordered and the first TBM scheduled for delivery next year. Premier Jacinta...

On September 12, a 6.35m diameter TBM passed FAT at CRCHI’s second industrial park in Changsha and is set to be shipped to Cluj-Napoca, Romania, where it will be used in the construction of the local metro system. This marks the first...

In the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, hundreds of railway tunnels were built in Europe. They are largely still in operation today. In the coming decades, a considerable number of tunnels are due for substantial renewal. With the...

  In Korea tunnel project tenders go slow. Tenders take long time to complete. Last example is underground power transmission tunnels tender of KEPCO Korea Electric Power Corporation. There are several biddings and bidded prices are higher...

Italian company Ghella announces; 08-28-2024 In a world-first initiative, Ghella, as part of the Suburban Connect consortium, is proud to announce the formation of an all-women Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) crew to construct the twin tunnels...

Very good summary of how China Tunnel Boring Machine industry developed https://english.news.cn/20240606/5f6765c7d3004e338c0fcc1cb121ba68/c.html

empowered by technologies like 5G, artificial intelligence (AI), and the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). CREG CRCHI English http://en.people.cn/n3/2024/0603/c98649-20177330.html

Milan, August 20, 2024 – Two giant tunnel-boring machines (TBMs) are starting on their underground journey to excavate the North East Link (NEL) motorway project that will improve the transport network in Melbourne, Australia. The Webuild...