Lok Home, the president of The Robbins Company announced in a video message that he has bought the assets of The Robbins Company and set up a new Tunnel Boring Machine manufacturer called Global TBM Company.

The Global TBM Company will have the same personnel, the same technical infrastructure and offer the same services as its predecessor The Robbins Company. In his video message, Lok Home said: ".. now going forward, we're going to operate as Robbins, the same companies you're used to operating with the same name and more importantly the same staff, crew and the support personnel that we've always operated with".

He said, the last few years has been difficult because of previous associations and now the company is in a much better place and "free to continue to the good service that has been expected from us, the good machines, the high quality machines". He added that the company is dedicated to improve their equipment into deliveries and quality products. He said, "in the last year or two we have been really coming up with some improvements for difficult ground conditions and right now we are on some several difficult projects that are complicated but we're committed to make them work well and they are working well. All the Robbins machines we have now are well supported". "What we can look forward to is a better stronger Robbins and I'm committed to make that happen with the good backup and service I've got from my team ad with the customers that stayed with me through these difficult times and support Robbins that I very much appreciate and I really thank anybody that stood with us of course thank them for that".

Revolutionary non-Circular TBM

Lok Home said, looking forward, he has some exciting news. One of them is that the company will be introducing a new revolutionary non-circular TBM design to the market. He said it proves that Robbins is still technically strong and technically still one of the leaders or the leader i the industry in this particular market segment.