Euro Panels Overseas

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Committed to Excellence

Euro Panels Overseas, as a member of the Etex Group of companies, is dedicated to providing the highest quality building products available. Its research and development group employs a staff of brilliant scientists and technicians who anticipate future market needs. Euro Panels Overseas is committed to assisting its customers with technical support to assure the proper installation of the products it supplies.

With 100 years of experience in manufacturing, the Etex Group has developed a well-earned name for quality and reliability, which is recognized throughout the world. Its fibre cement products are without equal in the industry and meet the most exacting standards of performance and durability.

Euro Panels Overseas is dedicated to making these excellent products available in all non-European markets. From shipping and handling to technical support on site, Euro Panels Overseas offers partnership to its customers.

 
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Interior Lining

GLASAL NT has been used successfully as a tunnel lining panel worldwide for over forty years, during which time its physical and aesthetic properties have gained acceptance in the most technically demanding markets.

The facing of tunnel walls must meet stringent requirements. Only the most durable materials produced by modern manufacturing techniques can resist the aggressive environment of vehicular tunnels, and the frequent cleaning they require.
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GLASAL NT is preferred as a tunnel lining because of its many advantages, which include non-combustibility, attractive colour range, freedom from corrosion, ease of maintenance and non-toxicity in the event of fire. GLASAL NT also exhibits excellent optical properties, which allow perfect diffusion of light and completely eliminate the risk of glare or dazzle. Economical lighting is also possible because the bright colours reflect up to 87% of lighting rays. GLASAL NT's hard, smooth surface withstands mechanical brushing and high-pressure washing, allowing maximum advantage to be obtained from its reflective properties.

In most tunnelling applications, extremely rough surfaces must be transformed into inexpensive smooth, highly functional linings, which are easy to maintain.
GLASAL NT meets, or exceeds, all these criteria, producing a long-lasting finish for all highway tunnels, metro stations, cross passages, walkways and utility rooms.

 

Fixing Systems

Rock blasted tunnel surfaces are usually very irregular. However, Euro Panels Overseas has the experience and skill required to develop fixing systems to overcome any difficulties, and produce a finished tunnel lining with a smooth, long-lasting, and easy-to-clean surface.
Where construction is by cut and cover, using diaphragm walling or contiguous piling techniques, the concrete surface can be very rough and irregular. For this scenario, special fixing systems have been developed to obtain a smooth secondary tunnel lining using GLASAL NT panels. These can be shaped on site to match the curvature of the tunnel walls.

If the internal surface of the tunnel is smooth, by way of construction using on-site poured concrete or prefabricated submersed concrete elements, the supporting framework required for GLASAL NT panels is minimal and low cost.



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Euro Panels Overseas, Bormstraat 22, B-2830 Tisselt, Belgium, tel +32 (0)1571 8280, fax +32 (0)1571 8289 or e-mail info@europanelsoverseas.be, website www.europanelsoverseas.be



LIST OF TUNNEL REFERENCES WITH GLASAL

BELGIUM

Tunnel "Bellevue" at Ghent
Tunnel at Sint-Niklaas
Tunnel "Vier Armen" at Kraainem
Tunnel "Beaux Arts" at Charleroi
"Liberation" tunnel at Wilrijk (Antwerp)
Northern cargo tunnel at Zaventem
Tunnel at Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe
Tunnel "Lode Craeybeckx" at Antwerp
Tunnel "'t Zand" at Bruges
Tunnel under the Rupel at Boom
Tunnel "Léonard" at Auderghem
Tunnel "Hallepoort" at Brussels
Tunnel "Rogier" at Brussels
Tunnel at Couillet (Charleroi)
Tunnels on the peripheric at Mons
Tunnel at Moeskroen
Tunnel "Jan De Vos" in Antwerp
Leopold II tunnel at Brussels
Kennedy Tunnel in Antwerp
Liefkenshoektunnel in Antwerp
Hoge weg tunnel at Zelzate
Tysmans tunnel in Antwerp
Beveren tunnel in Antwerp
Bevrijdingstunnel in Antwerp
Troon Tunnel in Brussels
Vier Armen Tunnel at Tervuren
Belliard tunnel at Brussels

(European Union Quarter)

Reyers tunnel at Brussels
Brand Witlock tunnel at Brussels
Tunnel "Vier Armen" at Kraainem
Tunnel "Montgomery" at Brussels
"Jubilee" Tunnel at Brussels
Vleurgat Tunnel at Brussels

 

M2

500
500
6.000
4.000
6.000
1.000
500
7.000
4.000
2.000
5.000
2.000
3.000
8.000
500
3.000
4.000
40.000
15.000
23.000
3.000
13.000
18.000
6.000
3.500
4.000
20.000

 

5.000
3.000
4.000
6.000
12.000
3.000

YEAR

1971
1976
1976
1976
1978
1978
1980
1981
1982
1982
1983
1985
1985
1985
1985
1985
1986
1988
1988
1990/1991
1990
1990
1990
1991
1993
1994
1994

 

1995
1995
1996
1996
1997
1998

USA

Cana Tunnel, Boston, USA

 

24.000
4.200

 

1991
2000

CHILI

Lo Prado Tunnel
Costanera Norte
Estoril
Bandera

 

 

15.000
75.000
5.000
1.500

 

2001
2005
2005
2006

UNITED KINGDOM

"Holmesdale" Tunnel, London, U.K.
Limehouse Link tunnel
East India Dock Link, London
Barbican Tunnel, London

 

 

5.750
38.000
2.000
2.500

 

1982
1991/1992
1995
1996

FRANCE

Tunnel "Porte de Pantin" at Paris
Tunnel at Saint-Etienne, France
Tunnel "Vieux-Port" at Marseille
Tunnels at Nice

 

 

12.500
6.000
6.000
5.000

 

1965
1967
1968
1970

HONG KONG

Tai Lam Tunnel
Lion Rock Tunnel

 

 

65.000
20.000

 

1997
2001

ITALY

Tunnel Galleria Dello Stonio (motorway Rome-Pescara)
Mont Blanc Tunnel
Mont Blanc Tunnel (refurbishment after fire)
Tunnel Strada SS, 51/bis, Primolano (NT)
Tunnel Quincinnetti, Aoste

 

 

7.000
72.000
72.000
5.000
3.500

 

1988
1989-1992
2001
1992
1995

JAPAN

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MALAYSIA

Perak tunnel
Karak tunnel
Damansara tunnel
KL Underpass tunnel

 

 

8.500
6.500
1.500
8.540

 

1987
1988
1999
2002

NETHERLANDS

"Kil" tunnel in the Netherlands
Vlake tunnel, South-Beveland
Tunnel of Drecht
Heinenoord tunnel
Heinenoord tunnel (2nd part)

 

 


4.000
25.000
4.700
2.500

 

1974
1975
1978
1990
1994

SPAIN

Tunnel in the A.Z.C.A. commercial centre at Madrid
Tunnel of Navacerrada at Madrid
Tunnel de la Rovira, Barcelona

Tunnel de la Malmassin, Bilbao
Tunnel de la Valvidrera, Barcelona
Tunnel de la Valvidrera, Barcelona
Tunnel del Cadi
Tunnel del Mataro
Tunnel de Santander
Tunnel Eibar, Bilbao

 

 

5.000
3.000
9.000
7.600
22.500
18.000
5.000
24.000
10.000
10.500
6.000

 

1974
1974
1988
2000
1990
1991
1992
1994
1994
1994
1995

CZECHIA

STRAHOV tunnel, Prague

 

 

20.000

 

1995

CHINA

CHONGQING tunnel
NANJING Xuanwu Lake Road Tunnel
CHENGDU Hongxing Road Tunnel
HANGZHOU Hubin Road Tunnel
NANJING Jiqingmen Road Tunnel
CHENGDU Dongcheng Road Tunnel
SHANGHAI Fuxing Road Tunnel
NANJING Zhanqian Square Road Tunnel
KUNMING Dongfeng Road Tunnel
NANJING Binjiang Road Tunnel
CHENGDU Tianfu Square Road Tunnel
NANJING Kaixuan Road Tunnel
NANJING Jiuhuashan Tunnel
NANJING Gulou Tunnel
SHANGHAI Central Circle Beihong Road Tunnel
GUANGZHOU Huangpu-Huancheng Tunnel
GUANGZHOU North Kejun main road - Thirteenth part
GUANGZHOU south Extended Keyun tunnel
GUANGZHOU North Kejun main road - Fourth part
GUANGZHOU west tunnel of south Xingao Road
GUANGZHOU south Xingao road, west tunnel of south Dongxiao Road
GUANGZHOU Wushan Road Tunnel
CHONGQING Nancheng Tunnel
WUHAN Shouyi Square Tunnel
GUANGZHOU Baiyun Tunnel
DALIAN Shimenshan Tunnel

 

 

13.000
28.000
11.500
11.000
6.100
4.900
24.000
8.200
6.200
4.800
4.000
6.400
32.700
9.400
18.750
1.850
1.650
1.750
1.100
2.750
2.950

3.000
20.670
9.360
3.900
15.000

 

1999
2002
2003
2003
2003
2003
2004
2004
2004
2004
2004
2004
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005
2005

2006
2006
2006
2006
2006

RUSSIA

KUTUZOVSKI tunnel, Moscow
MASLOVICA tunnel
MIR tunnel

 

30.000
3.000
5.000

 

2000
2001
2001




TUNNEL REFERENCES IN JAPAN

GLASAL TUNNEL LINING

DATE
NAME OF TUNNEL
LENGTH (m)
SHIPPING VOL (mē)
REMARKS

1983 7-8

Yoneyama tunnel

7,600

Hokuriku expressway
9
Takao tunnel
1,030
1,400
Chugoku expressway
10
Nagamine tunnel
1,240
8,100
Kainan uasa expressway
11
Tenozan tunnel
1,100
8,300
Meishin expressway
11
Takarazuka tunnel
580
2,100
Chugoku expressway
Others
9,500
(total)
37,000
(from '83/4 to '84/3)

1984 11

Miyasato tunnel

1,210

2,900

Chugoku expressway
11
Uri tunnel
920
1,700
Tomei expressway
10-12
Kobotoke tunnel B
1,620
5,800
Chuo expressway
3
Enasan tunnel
8,649
14,000
Chuo expressway
3
Sukegawa tunnel A
1,811
8,000
Jouban expressway
3
Sukegawa tunnel B
1,764
8,600
Jouban expressway
Kurakake tunnel
1,866
9,300
Jouban expressway
Others
10,000
(total)
61,500
(from '84/4 to '85/3)

1985 6

Ouhirayama tunnel

12,400

Sanyo Road
6
Tsubaki tunnel
1,160
10,300
Sanyo Road
7
Shiroyama tunnel
7,700
Sanyo expressway
10
Yamada tunnel
1,300
Himeji by-pass
10
Fukuda tunnel
1,100
Himeji by-pass
11
Yamabuki tunnel
1,900
No. 19 Nat. Highway
12
Taizanji tunnel
2,800
Himeji by-pass

1986 1

Gongenyama tunnel

1,400

7,000

Tokai Hokuriku road
2
Kobotoke Tunnel A
1,620
5,800
Chuo expressway
3
Sakanashi Tunnel B
4,000
23,700
Tohoku expressway
Others
7,000
(total)
81,000
(from '85/4 to '86/3)



GLASAL TUNNEL REFERENCES IN JAPAN

FISCAL YEAR - (April to March)

FY. 1990

NAME OF TUNNEL

Etanbetsu
Suyama
Hokubou/Toribe
Gobun
Mokuhara
Shoshazan
Mitate
Shiromidai
Minoyama
Aina
Seiryu
Hakusan
Nishiyama
Iwato
Shisugatake

QUANTITY (sq.m.)

2,830
1,300
2,150
3,600
4,000
6,100
8,180
4,070
2,500
4,800
6,200
900
2,446
2,600
4,000

55,676 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 1991

Tenjin
Kanetsu
Inokoyama
Nishi-shimono
Houo
Susagamine

2,000
9,227
2,300
1,650
4,500
7,350

27,027 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 1992
Sakashita
Iwaki
Happuzan
Akeshina
Ipponmatsu
Hinooku
Ushizu
Takao
Sanpeizan
Kinmeji
Chikanobu (West)
Chikanobu (East)
Mukougadaira
Kobe

 

 

4,000
2,800
1,380
7,630
13,060
1,600
2,700
4,500
9,400
4,300
3,000
3,000
2,840
2,000

62,210 sq.m. in total
FY. 1993
Oya-Kita
Tsurugatayama
Kake
Tsuzumiyama
Hiyamaji
Kasaiyama (N°1)
Kasaiyama (N°2)
Soyasan
Umetouge (N°1)
Umetouge (N°2)
Hoki
Senda
Aijima
Haneda
Uomi
Bantan
Kokusaimura
Suzuka
Ogatouge
Yabazu
Kitayama

2,400
3,200
3,700
2,500
5,900
8,700
12,000
5,200
3,100
3,100
2,000
5,400
1,800
5,040
2,800
3,500
2,750
2,000
2,550
13,000
1,300

91,940 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 1994
Haneda
Hikone
Tennouzan
Amagoyama
Chibagatake
Hachidousa
Daitaro
Natsua
Myokenyama
Nazumi

1,160
2,300
3,200
2,200
3,200
4,200
2,411
1,300
2,462
4,850

27,283 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 1995
(April-Sept)
Kakuto
Shin-Kannon
Nagara

 

7,800
4,500
6,400

18,700 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 1999

Ikuno
Bantan
Shimozu
Owashi
Minatojima
Morigaki
Nishiyama
Asagi 1-9
Wadayama

4,243
2,520
1,500
1,500
500
1,365
1,703
16,574
2,266

32,171 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 2000

Koishi

 

 1,700
FY. 2001

Minoyama
Nagano
Taniisohukudo
Suzaki

 

5,900
260
470
120

6,750 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 2002 Sakura
Shuetsu
Udatsu
Fujishiro
Enasan 1 (repair)
Sasaya (repair)

1,500
3,000
4,000
1,100
4,500
1,550

15,650 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 2003 Enasan 2 (repair)
Chofu
Ishibe
Shin Nihonzaka
Oomiya

8,000
1,800
1,000
4,500
4,500

19,800 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 2004 Otoyo
Sayoka Nakayama
Okubiwa
Enasan 3 (repair)

2,300
1,000
3,500
4,000

10,800 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 2005 Tenjinyama
Oomiya
Nerima
Hoketsu
Uji
Enasan 4 (repair)

3,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000
4,000

22,000 sq.m. in total

 
FY. 2006 Kasuga-Wadayama
Uji 2
Amikake (repair)
Koshirazu
Asakura
Misaka
Nagahama
Amikake 2 (repair)

5,900
2,900
2,900
2,000
1,800
2,800
   350
1,200

19,850 sq.m. in total

 
NOTE: Smaller scale references and maintenance uses are omitted from this list.