11.16 meters in diameter Tunnel Boring machine of China Railway Engineering Equipment Group (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. Largest one in diameter exported from China to Türkiye. https://www.ecns.cn/business/2022-11-07/detail-ihcfsvky7638956.shtml

  Korea is a very promising and fastly expanding market for faster and safer tunnel methods. This said by Huo Lei, vice president of China Railway Technology Equipment Group (CREG)  in an interview with E Korea Economy writes Dnews site...

The article describes the tunnel boring machine as the `earthbound submarine`. Funny. https://www.rtands.com/track-construction/track-structure/bridges-tunnels/montreal-light-rail-project-uses-submarine-to-bore-through-sensitive-area/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgMwnQfrBYM On 24 October, the first day of Bauma 2022, Herrenknecht wins the prestigious Bauma Innovation award for continuous tunnelling. Herrenknecht press release reads as below. Herrenknecht AG starts...

Acciona Australia announces the arrival of the first tunnel boring machines for the Sydney West project. First Tunnel Boring Machines Arrive for Sydney Metro West The two machines have arrived at The Bays Station site and will be the first...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ffz--go7sI A giant boring-machine shield, designed to excavate a 7.74km (4.81-mile) underwater tunnel for the new Chongming metro line in...

For the first time in the world, driverless technology helps high-speed railway tunnel construction. Recently, the concrete wet spraying trolley with driverless tech developed by CRCC was successfully commissioned in Yixing, Jiangsu Province. The...

On September 4, the world's first large-slope tunnel-boring machine built by CRCC rolled off the production line in Changsha, Hunan Province. This "Beishan No. 1" tunneling machine, with a length of about 100 meters and a diameter...

As the first large-slope tunnel-boring machine in the world, the so-called Beishan No 1 will be used in the construction of an underground laboratory to research disposal technologies for high-level radioactive waste in Beishan, Gansu...

China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Group and China Railway 18th Bureau Group produce world's first large-slope spiral tunnel boring machine "Beishan No. 1". It can bores large gradients and small turns. A breakthrough in...

E-BERK deliver a new Tunnel Boring Machine model E-3303. It is for Kocaeli Karamürsel Water Conveyance tunnel project in Türkiye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tScgPi5CAac

CRCHI chairman: Indigenous tech making China global leader in heavy industries China has become a global leader in heavy industries, with its self-developed technologies, says Liu Feixiang, chairman of China Railway Construction Heavy Industry...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaK7ew2Xf3U China has become a global leader in heavy industries, with its self-developed technologies, says Liu Feixiang, chairman of China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corp (CRCHI). Peoples...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_dzK9ykGyc Tunnel boring work for the Tokyo - Nagoya magnetic levitation Shinkansen train line is running behind schedule due to a problem with the tunnel boring machine. JR Tokai plans to repair the TBM...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrKOygC2YvY The UK company  Joseph Gallagher safely recovers the Herrenknecht AG tunnel boring machine AVN2000AB from the sea bed of Arabian Gulf last week. TBM has successfully bored the Umm Al Hayman...

  TERRATEC marks its latest milestone on the Chennai Metro Rail project in India with the delivery of the third out of five ordered 6.61m diameter Earth Pressure Balance Tunnel Boring Machines (EPBMs) for the project. Contractor, Tata...

  EKorea Ekonomic Daily write China's Tunnel Boring Companies are winning contracts in Korean Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) market. Korean companies CRCHI and CREG winning orders in Korea. In tradition European and USA companies dominate...

Hello There was once a news about Chinese experiment with water jet tbm.  https://tunnelcontact.com/discussion/view/1819/chinas-creg-introduces-water-jet-hard-rock-tunnel-boring-machine I saw no news about result. Anybody offer...

I read a Viva 100 news that wrote DL E&C announces on the 15th that it is using the largest Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) for Seoul's metropolitan area express railway (GTX)-A route. A 11.6 meter diameter‘Gripper TBM’ isused...

Komatsu Ltd. (President and CEO: Hiroyuki Ogawa), through its subsidiary, Komatsu Cummins Chile Ltda. (KCC; President: Yasuji Nishiura), has agreed with Codelco, a major state-owned mining company in Chile, to collaborate on trialing a new tunnel...