Press archive to June 2007.

Ready to cross the Yangtze: world´s largest tunnelling machine assembled and ready in 4 months in Shanghai.

At the end of April 2006, right on schedule, Herrenknecht AG handed over the first tunnelling machine with a diameter of 15.43m to the Chinese client "Shanghai Changjiang Tunnel & Bridge Construction Co., Ltd.".

Herrenknecht begins 2006 with a high volume of orders. Business in China is growing.

In the first quarter of 2006 Herrenknecht AG in Schwanau (South Germany) received orders worth EUR 200 million. China has now become the largest market after Europe.

Teamwork Tunnelling: It's moving in Madrid's underground.

On the Iberian peninsula 18 Earth Pressure Balance Shields and Hard Rock Machines in total are currently being deployed in metro or road tunnelling and trans-regional railway projects.

The STUVA Prize awarded by the Research Association for Underground Transportation Facilities Inc. (STUVA) honors individuals, institutions or projects for significant innovations in the field of underground construction.

Around the world, the name "Herrenknecht" is well known in the tunnelling industry. The broad public associates Herrenknecht particularly with gigantic tunnel boring machines drilling the largest, deepest and longest traffic infrastructure tunnels around the planet.

The superlative tunnel boring machine is scheduled to go on its journey to Madrid within the next few weeks. Exactly twelve months ago, Herrenknecht received the order for one of the most technically demanding machines in the 28 years of company history.

In Mid March 2005, Federal Minister of Education and Research Edelgard Bulmahn visited a trailblazing research project of the University of Karlsruhe (TH) at the south coast of the Indonesian island Java.

For more than 28 years, Herrenknecht AG, based in Schwanau (South Germany), has manufactured state-of-the-art tunnelling technology; being today's international market leader in this field.

The "Jucar-Vinalopo Water Transfer Project" is one of the largest projects of the Spanish Water Management Program. Once completed, a 67km long water pipeline will transfer the precious water from the Jucar Basin (west of Valencia) to the dry coastal regions around Murcia, Alicante and Benidorm.

The new Gotthard Base Tunnel in Switzerland is a construction project of the superlative. On one of the world's largest construction sites the longest traffic tunnel of the world is being driven with 2 x 57km. At the end of December 2004 the AlpTransit Gotthard AG could announce that 40 per cent of the tunnelling works of...