"Vermeer", a leading US machinery manufacturing company, has offered to provide the latest construction technology to Pakistan for laying underground utility pipes.
Navneet Mathur, Managing Executive of a Sharjah based marketing company "Reran International" the exclusive dealer of Vermeer for Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan gave a presentation on the technology being used in USA, Europe, Gulf and South Asia for modern construction works.
The meeting arranged for this presentation here on Thursday, was attended by members of All Pakistan Contractors' Association (APCA) in large numbers. Muhammad Yunus Khan, secretary APCA also addressed the meeting. Sameer Malhotra, a representative of a multinational organisation associated with construction business also attended the meeting.
Navneet, in his presentation, disclosed that Vermeer had invented a number of modern construction machines, which were being used by the developed world for quality construction with a considerable saving of time and cost. The Horizontal Directional Drilling Machine is the most popular technology for underground drilling, he said adding that the technology is capable of laying down long utility pipes underground, without any digging of roads, houses or earth on the surface. He acknowledged that the augmenting pace of development work in Pakistan had attracted the international companies like Vermeer and Rehan towards Pakistan.
He said that all utility pipes in Pakistan would now be laid under the ground without surface digging of roads and building because of the Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) machine of Vermeer. He further informed that because of the effective use of HDD technology, India had put a ban on surface digging for installation of the utility pipes. About 600 HDD machines were currently being operated successfully for the construction projects in India and around the same number of machines were further being imported, he added.
Navneet noticed that the construction companies in Pakistan were keen to shift towards the modern machines and equipment for their construction projects. He hoped that HDD technology would bring a revolution in development activities in Pakistan.
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