After months of hard work, Edilmac completed the excavation of the 365-metre long penstock and surge shaft as part of the works for the development of the Proyecto Hydro Elèctrico Palomino in the Dominican Republic. Together with their workers, some of the company's management, together with management representatives of the subcontractor Norberto Odebrecht, celebrated the end of the works with a celebratory banquet..[...]

In autumn 2011, Edilmac built a vertical well for its consortium member Cordée Mont Blanc using the “Raise Boring” technology. The well, 77m-deep and with a diameter of 1.84m, is located in Pointe Helbronner on the Mont Blanc massif at about 3500m above sea level.

The special feature of this perforation is the height at which the drilling was conducted, a record for the European continent [...]

Every year on the occasion of Saint Barbara's day, the patron saint of miners, the Maccabelli brothers and Edilmac's employers come together to pray. «Ours is a tough job – says Mario Maccabelli – where hazards are always around the corner, despite all the precautions one takes. Having extra protection from up there is always a good thing and this is why we are devoted to Saint Barbara and over the past year we decided to place a statue that also can be seen from the road passing near our building site.[...]

Click here to view "L'Eco di Bergamo" article on Friday November 25, 2011.

Click here to view "L'Eco di Bergamo" article on Friday December 24, 2011.

In 2011 EDILMAC realized for the Oberosler company the ventilation shaft of a new road tunnel in Laives (BZ – Italy).

The vertical shaft, 280m long and 4,74m wide, passes through porphyry rocks that revealed pretty hard to drill for their almost vertical dip and irregular foliation that put to test both people and machines [...]

During the summer of 2011 EDILMAC realized in Umbria region (central Italy) the ventilation shaft for a tunnel placed in a complex of dams and water ducts for agricultural use. The vertical shaft, 280m long and 2,44m wide, is excavated in well cemented quarz sandstone with diffuse marly lenses.

For the fact the shaft has a considerable length and a deviation from the vertical [...]

EDILMAC, is participating in the implementation of the Proyecto Hydro Electrico Palomino, located in the San Juan in the Dominican Republic, on behalf of EGEHID (Empresa de Generacion Hidroeletrica Dominican), as sub contractor of the Brazilian multinational Norberto Odebrecht that awarded the whole project.

The project involves the construction of a dam at the confluence of Blanco and Yaque del Sur rivers and a 13.5 km [...]

The recent achievement of the environmental certification UNI EN ISO 14001:2004 is the culmination of a process begun three years ago that allowed to Edilmac to achieve a systematic and integrated management of key business factors. This objective is a starting point which confirms the will of Edilmac to pursue a business management for the improvement of its processes, the safety of its employees and the environmental sustainability.

For the starting of its YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/EmEdilmac) Edilmac has chosen to begin with the flagship of its technologies, Raise Boring.

With the different available "Raise Borer" equipments, Edilmac is at the top of the international market for quality of service and speed of execution in rock of shafts, stoves and penstocks. Proceeding with a head cutter in upward direction it is possible to obtain extraordinary results for precision drilling, high productivity and maximum safety.

The use of this technology has made Edilmac famous in the world. Among the few players in the world who do use it, over the years the brothers Maccabelli have gained an important share in the market for mechanical design of wells with depths of hundreds of meters.

EDILMAC, between 2010 and 2011, in Vianden (Luxembourg) for the owner SEO (Société Electrique de l’Our) and in subcontract for the association of companies Züblin – Strabag – Jäger realized the vertical pressure shaft excavation for the expansion works of the greatest pumped storage hydroelectric plant in Europe in order to add the eleventh machine in the plant.

The 5,46 m large shaft covers a drop of 280 m and connects, crossing shale rock formations, the upper reservoir in Mont Saint Nicolas to the lower basin realized by the barrage on the Our river [...]