After more than 30 years of going their separate ways, Munich based guidance system suppliers PPS GmbH and tacs GmbH have announced their merger and future cooperation.

"The combination of our technologies and Know-How will clearly benefit both our customer bases and add value to their future projects", says PPS CEO Quirin Poltinger. "We also double our capacities for the production, field-service, support and can offer a broader partner network around the world."

"Additionally, our development efforts are strengthened by doubling the number of engineering capacities", adds Fritz Grübl, Managing Director of tacs GmbH. "The future will bring much higher grades of automatisation for the whole tunnel construction process, we can definitely add to this approach with our experience, expertise and Research & Development work".

In future, both companies plan to invest in merging TBM telematics with their guidance and ring build solutions for automated construction approaches for TBM and micro-tunnelling projects.

"Our joint expertise in surveying and civil engineering combined with Geotechnics will definitely push forward and innovate the state-of-the-art solutions as we know them today", both CEOs said in their statement. For further information please visit the PPS website by clicking https://www.pps-muc.de/. 37/21.