Press

July / August 2025

GEO DRILLING INTERNATIONAL

Preserving Heritage while Drilling Deep : How a unique drilling project brought together 21st-century technology and centuries-old architecture in the heart of Oxford when a Comacchio GEO 909 GT rig was used to deliver an ambitious ground source heat pump system at Trinity College.

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May 2025

PILING CANADA

The CH 850 Multipurpose Piling: Engineered to tackle to most demanding foundation projects.

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April 2025

WE ARE DRILLING FOUNDATIONS

Non-Standard Piles ... Hundreds of CFA piles with a diameter of 1,200 mm in an inconsistent terrain. This is the challenge faced by a Comacchio CH 650 working in Valtellina for the construction of two railway underpasses.

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February / April 2025

PERFORARE

The rock healer: in Brienz, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, a very special MC 12 is at work to save the village from the calamity of an epic landslide. (in Italian only)

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April 2025

ON SITE CONSTRUCTION

The "FOUNDATIONS" of Progress ... Two Comacchio CH 450 rigs in micropile configuration were used by the Turin-based company TERRA.CON in Chiomonte, in the Susa Valley, to construct the viaduct that will allow the excavation of the high-speed railway tunnel. (in Italian only)

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March 2025

GEO DRILLING INTERNATIONAL

The Snowy 2.0 Project: Grouting work carried out with the aid of a Cornacchio MC 22 rig allowed tunnelling to continue on the Snowy 2.0 project after a shink hole developed stopping the TBM.

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January 2025

FOUNDATION DRILLING

Comacchio Launches the CH 850: The CH 850 is the latest addition to the Comacchio CH line of piling machines and is currently the largest multipurpose unit in the range.

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