Originally a pile driving company, Hub Foundation Company of Harvard, Mass., first added wide-diameter bore drilling to its operations 23 years ago. Most of the region’s ground conditions generally call for augers. Greg Maxwell, grandson of company founder Frank Maxwell, said Hub has always persevered through each hard rock socket, but they have continually sought easier, faster ways to drill out hard rock.
Surrounded by serene lakes and winding rivers is Lindsay, Ontario, home to a very advanced and unique drilling school: Fleming College’s Resources Drilling and Blasting program. It is the only program of its kind in the world, offering an impressive combination of technical training and hands-on experience in all sectors of the drilling industry.
A leading and long-established well drilling firm in northern New Jersey found that working with a completely new ground loop heat exchanger called “Twister,” an innovative option for use in heat pump systems, required significantly less time and effort to get the job done and resulted in savings of up to about 25 percent in cost.
Global water technology company Xylem released the CentriPro brand Aquavar pump controller at last month’s National Ground Water Association 2013 Expo in Nashville, Tenn.
Schramm, together with GenNx360 Capital Partners, has acquired Air Drill Hammers and Bits Pty Ltd., a manufacturer of drilling equipment like hammers and percussion bits for mineral exploration and mining.