Maccaferri Acquires Elas GeotecnicaBologna-based Maccaferri, world leader in geotechnics and soil erosion control, announced the acquisition of Elas Geotecnica, based in Segrate near Milan. Thanks to this acquisition, Maccaferri's objective is above all to increase its market share both in Italy and on foreign markets.Elas Geotecnica is a company specialised in the development of innovative solutions for subsoil consolidation and reinforcement during construction of road and railway tunnels, metro lines, dykes, river canals and extraction of minerals. Thanks to a very broad and specific product range (glass fibre rods, cementicious and chemical grouts, etc.), the company is capable to supply the most suitable products for the consolidation and reinforcement of underground works and to guarantee assistance and customer support to meet the technical requirements of every single project.The company has been involved in numerous projects in Italy and abroad, e.g. the Bolonia-Florence high speed line, the Salerno-Reggio Calabria motorway, metro lines in Rome, Brescia, Madrid and Barcelona, the Bologna-Florence motorway bypass section and the Saint-Martin-la-Porte access adit to the future Lyon-Turin base tunnel. Click here. Visit www.maccaferri.com and www.elasgeotecnica.itIn terms of objectives, the Maccaferri Group not only grows in Italy and Europe but also in South America, where there are optimal possibilities of development for this type of products and systems. Actually, Maccaferri has the possibility to offer global packages in this field, adding to its own solutions (shotcrete-reinforced fibres and geosynthetic reinforcement) those of Elas Geotecnica, particularly innovative.The tunnelling sector has been constantly growing, thanks to the major infrastructure projects throughout Europe and the world. Thanks to many registered patents, some of which really innovative, Elas Geotecnica represents an excellent opportunity for Maccaferri. One of the most important patents is a special solution, named GROUT MASTER, that allows to consolidate and seal big volumes of ground by means of a chemical grout that, with the simple addition of water, gives results similar to those of cement.Another patented product makes it possible to recompact the soil by using appropriate systems that allow the decompression of the geological strengths of the ground. 52/07-01/08.