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    • Dave Anderson

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      ' thanks to the Japanese engineers' contributions to tunnel boring machine technology'? Are you serious? The last time I checked it was the USA a.k.a Robbins, who invented TBM and took it further than anyone else.

      • Quirin Poltinger

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        Hi Peter, actually, it can... It is an old NFM machine from the Thomson Line project in Singapore that was refurbished by Robbins for this drive in Mumbai.

        • Dave Anderson

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          In this country, we have The Robbins Company which has virtually invented the TBM tunneling. I don't know why we have to import TBM from Germany and Japan for our projects? What was the last time Germans and Japanese imported a Robbins?

          • Paolo Kerguel

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            Indeed Robbins invented the TBM. And then stopped right there. What innovation worth mentioning did Robbins...

            • Alan Limbach

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              Donnie the Tunnel Boring Machine, behind some people. https://www.trenchlessinternational.com/2019/12/17/boring-begins-on-coxwell-bypass-tunnel/ #Coxwell

              • Dave Anderson

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                This prufrock thing pure vaporware. Elon Musk has no e...erience in mechanical engineering yet alone in tunnel boring machines. You may hire some experien...this and that on a Lovat TBM. But inventing a tunnel boring machine 10 times faster than standard...

                • Dave Anderson

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                  Most likely NFM refurbished an old Robbins TBM and rechristened it as Robbins-NFM.

                  • Ray M. Morgan

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                    Virgin boss Richard Branson is endorsing murderer of a journalist by Saudi Arabia ruler Mohammad Bin Salman, by sending virgin hyperloop one ceo to the conference. Principled all right...  

                    • Kris Lubcek

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                      I still feel bad that Robbins is now a Chinese company...