CEG - Tue December 17, 2024
Kentucky Blasting Conference 2024 Highlights Industry
The 51st Annual Kentucky Blasting Conference (KBC) took place on Dec. 5-6, 2024, at the Central Bank Center in Lexington, Ky. Hosted by the Kentucky Bluegrass Chapter of the International Society of Explosives Engineers (ISEE), the event offers industry professionals access to training, presentations and networking opportunities....
RAM Inc. - Wed April 03, 2024
RAM Announces Dates, New Location for BEST Course
RAM Inc. announced its premier Blasting and Explosives Safety Training (BEST) Course will be held from Sept. 10 to 12, 2024. All 2024 sessions will be conducted exclusively at the Crazy Horse Memorial in Crazy Horse, S.D....
RAM Inc. - Wed April 12, 2023
RAM's Surface Blasting Course Covers Latest Blasting Methods, Technologies
R. A. McClure Inc. (RAM Inc.) will hold its premier Surface Blasting Course at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, S.D., from Sept. 26 to 28, 2023. The intense, three-day curriculum focuses heavily on the latest technologies and methodologies available to the mining industry for blast optimization....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Wed August 24, 2022
Everett Turnpike Widening Project Continues in N.H.
After the New Hampshire Executive Council approved an expenditure of $20.5 million for a road widening project for the Everett Turnpike in April, one element of the project was completed and the next one started....
RAM Inc. - Tue March 08, 2022
RAM Opens Registration for 2022 Blasting, Explosives Safety Training Course
Developed specifically for explosives engineers, drillers, field crews, safety personnel, D&B engineers and others working with explosives, RAM Inc. 's 2022 Blasting and Explosives Safety Training (BEST) Course will be held Sept....
RAM Inc. - Wed January 26, 2022
Updates to BlastMetriX UAV Optimize Blast Performance, Improve Safety
3GSM GmbH, developer of software that optimizes blasting and reduces inherent environmental issues, announced several significant updates to its flagship BlastMetriX UAV software. Advancing blast performance and safety, the new version improves communication with smart drills, offers face profiling enhancements and delivers more sophisticated drill pattern analysis....
CEG - Wed December 15, 2021
Soosan America's Rock Commander Gives Flynn Brothers Inc. Confidence
To supplement their teacher incomes, brothers John and Jesse Flynn started an asphalt patching and driveway paving business in the Louisville, Ky., area in 1973, working from the back of their pickup truck....
Lori Tobias – CEG Correspondent - Wed December 02, 2020
Aggregate Industries-SWR Inc. Require 58 Blasting Events on Nevada's SR 160 Job
Construction crews from Aggregate Industries-SWR Inc. have just completed a $59 million highway widening project in Nevada that posed some tricky challenges, but is expected to make a critical rural stretch of State Route 160 significantly safer for the 8,600 vehicles that travel it daily....
RAM Inc. - Wed March 04, 2020
RAM Opens Registration for 2020 BEST Course at South Dakota School of Mines
RAM Inc.'s 2020 enhanced Blasting and Explosives Safety Training (BEST) Course will be held at the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City, S.D., from Sept. 9 to 11. Building on a solid foundation of explosives regulatory, technology and application sessions, this year's course features instructions on hazard recognition posed by deteriorated explosives....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Thu September 12, 2019
Ledge Removal Continues in Vermont Before More Rocks Tumble on Highway
To rectify a rock fall that occurred in 2012 and forced a temporary closing of a portion of I-89 in Berlin, Vt. , the state of Vermont removed a 1,400 ft. section of rock from the area. Most of the blasting that was done to remove the rock was completed, but small blasts may be needed to complete the job....
