Geosynthetic News Alerts (GNA)

Integration of Polymer Optical Fibers in Nonwoven Geotextiles for Continuous Strain Monitoring

BUSINESS NEWS

Geomembrane Installer Gets Approval for Market Listing in 2027Q1
Wil-Key Secures Bursa Approval for ACE Market Listing, Targets Debut In 1Q27

INDUSTRY NEWS

Huesker Director  Zahra Kaya Talks with Engineers Australia on Geosynthetics

HDPE Geomembrane for Reliable Sealing of Massive German Pumped-Storage Power Plant (Video)

Melbourne Start-Up Aims to Solven Geotextile’s Microplastics Problem

ETP Launches New Brand Identity Reflecting a Century and a Half of American Manufacturing

Migration of Microplastics in Soil Beneath Landfill Leads to a Risk-Depth Decoupling
Attenuated Abundance Does Not Mean Reduced Ecological Risk

WORLD NEWS

India Commissions Geomembrane-Lined Rainwater Harvesting Reservoir

GEOMEMBRANES

Patent Granted for Fail-Safe Landfill Gas Collection Geomembranes

Mechanical Performance and Feasibility of Recycled Rubber Fiber-Reinforced Geomembranes

GEOTEXTILE TUBES

Bearing Behaviours of Annular Geotube Dams Considering Interface Friction Effects

GEOGRIDS

Interlocking and Progressive Failure at Armoured Geogrid-Expansive Soil Interfaces Governed by Particle Size

Novel Geofoam-Geogrid Composite for Protecting Buried Pipelines Against Blast Loads

Solmax Successfully Completes Comprehensive Refinancing 

BUSINESS NEWS 

Geoquest Completes Grupo TDM’s Geosynthetics Division Acquisition 

Tensar Awarded US Patent for System for Detecting Subgrade Deformation 

LEGAL NEWS 

Victoria Gold Accuses JDS Mine Contractor of Supplying Substandard “Geomembrane Liner” in New Lawsuit 

Appeals Court Decision on Trial Court Judgment in Reservoir Lawsuit 
Lawsuit over cracked soil-cement under old geomembrane liner. Installation a new geomembrane liner and a rock layer for drainage, the key component missing from the original design 

Chiquita Canyon Landfill Case Back in Court 

INDUSTRY NEWS 

New Geotextile Can Filter Heavy Metals from Contaminated Ground Water 
PET-Fe-BDC Composite Geotextiles for Groundwater Remediation: In Situ Retention of Pb(II) and Cd(II) 
Remediating heavy-metal pollution in flowing groundwater 

Geotechnical Engineering: New Approaches with Geotextile Tubes 

Terram Geosynthetics Supporting UK’s Flood Defence Programme 

Webinar – Engineering Design of Landfill Final Cover Systems Using Flexible Geomembranes – October 13 

Red Earth Engineering Seeking Senior Geo-Environmental Engineer 
For design and assessment of geosynthetic lining, containment and capping systems for mining, resources, waste, energy and industrial applications, including tailings and mine-water facilities, process and evaporation ponds, waste containment facilities and landfills. 

GCLs 

Hydrodynamic Simulation of Swelling of Bentonite Granules and Hydraulic Conductivity of Geosynthetic Clay Liners 

GEOCELLS 

Experimental Evaluation of Iron Ore Tailings Sand as Infill for Geocell-Reinforced Railway Track Sub-Ballast Using a Uniaxial Cyclic Loading Box Test 

GEOGRIDS 

Influence of Geogrid-Geotextile Reinforcement on Field-Derived Soil-Water Characteristic Curves and Climate-Driven Moisture Dynamics of Compacted Clay Slopes 

GEOSTRIPS 

Physical Model Study on the Static Behaviour of PET Geostrip-Reinforced Back-to-Back MSE Walls 

From Summer Heat to Winter Cold: Managing PE Geomembrane Movement [PDF]

Queen’s University Tested Geomembrane and Concludes it Will Stay Intact for More than a Thousand Years

Solmax in Malaysia Seeking Senior Director, Supply Chain & Procurement – APAC
to lead end-to-end supply chain and procurement across China, Malaysia and Thailand, reporting to the VP of Global Supply Chain & Sourcing.

Creating Solid Ground from Soft Soil on Norfolk Southern’s Calumet Project
Tensar explains how InterAx geogrid helped Norfolk Southern build a stable foundation on extremely weak subgrade at Calumet.

Solmax Geomembranes Ensure Long-term Brine Containment

Biobased Geomembranes Based on Natural Rubber Latex-Treated Recycled Wool

After Successful Implementation at Poonthura, Kovalam to Get Innovative Coastal Protection Using Geotextile Tubes

GEOMEMBRANES

Porosity Formation Mechanisms and Their Effects on the Mechanical Properties of High-Density Polyethylene Extrusion Welds

Biobased Geomembranes Based on Natural Rubber Latex-Treated Recycled Wool

Novel Waste-Cover-Waste Three-layer Landfill Cover System without Geomembrane: from Theory to Practice

GEOTEXTILES

Dewatering and Remediation of Dredged Sediments Under Varying Heavy Metal Contamination Types and Levels Using Electrokinetic Geosynthetics-Assisted Vacuum Preloading (EGAVP) Combined with Electroosmosis (EO)

Evaluation of Capillary Rise in Silty Sands with Geotextiles

GCLs

Hydraulic Conductivity of Bentonite-Polymer Composite Geosynthetic Clay Liners with Typical or Elevated Polymer Loading to Coal Combustion Product Leachates

Laboratory assessment of the relationship between membrane behaviour and migration of PFAS through geosynthetic clay liners

GEOGRIDS

New Hybrid Models with Machine Learning Algorithms to Predict the Strength of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Subgrade Soil

Free Access to All 13ICG Conference Papers for GNA Subscribers

ISO Publish STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN – ISO/TC 221 ‘GEOSYNTHETICS’ [PDF]

INDUSTRY NEWS
 
Hesco RAID Deploys over 1,000 Feet of Defensive Geotextile-Reinforced Barriers in under 5 Minutes

Poland Strengthens the Border with Ukraine with Geotextiles Barriers
For rapid construction of barriers and protected positions, the military uses HESCO Bastion metal modules lined with geotextile that are filled with soil after installation

Chiquita Canyon Landfill Issues Raise Questions About Oversight Regulations
“Installation of the geomembrane cover is an important odour-control project underway at the site, and it is proceeding on schedule.

Field Demonstration of a Conductive Geomembrane Welded with ISO Wedge

Two-Day National Symposium on Geosynthetics for Highways and Railways Inaugurated at CSIR-CRRI, New Delhi

Update on How Geotextile Bags Saved Tuvalu’s Coast

Shaw Industries Develop Geosynthetic for Erosion Control with Variable Permittivity [PDF]
 
When Traditional Sand Bunds Fail: A GEOTUBE® Marine Solution for Land Reclamation

Terram® Strengthens UK Sales Team with Dual Key Account Appointments

EXPERT’S CORNER

Laminated GCLs Polymer Quality Beyond Peel Strength

GEOMEMBRANES

Risk Assessment and Site-specific target Level Determination for Groundwater Contamination Associated with Geomembrane-lined Ghosphogypsum Stacks
The stacks area encompassed a 5.36 km² with five distinct leakage modes ranging from localized geomembrane puncture (3.76 × 10^-4 m³/d) to catastrophic liner failure (14,436 m³/d)

Solid-Liquid-Gas Coupled Model for Geomembrane Bulging and Venting Pressure Relief in Plain Reservoirs

GEOMEMBRANE-LINED LANDFILLS

Carbon Accounting and Carbon Reduction Performance of Intelligent Construction in Vertical Geomembrane-Barrier Landfill Engineering

Slope Stability Analysis of Geo-Synthetic Reinforced Embankments Using PLAXIS

GEOTEXTILES

Effects of Water Depth on the Performance of Geotextile-Armoured and Vegetated Submerged Breakwaters

nZVI-rGO/Geotextile Bioretention Systems for Enhanced and Stable Nitrate Removal Under Carbon-limited Stormwater Conditions

Field Performance Evaluation of Roadway Drainage System Installed in Recycled Concrete Aggregate Base Course
This study presents findings from a 33-month field evaluation of a roadway drainage system installed adjacent to a base course constructed with recycled concrete aggregate (RCA).  Geotextiles exhumed from test sections indicated some reduction in permittivity due to both migration of fine particles and chemical precipitation (tufa) from RCA. 

GCLs

Application of Artificial Neural Network for Predicting Gas Permeability of Geosynthetic Clay Liners

GEOGRIDS

Numerical Evaluation of Geogrid-Reinforced Slopes under Various Soil and Geometric Configurations

Design-Driven Life-Cycle Assessment of Geogrid-Reinforced Strip Footings

Field Performance Assessment of Geogrid- and Geocell-reinforced Pavement on Weak Subgrade Using FWD, LWD and Dynamic Field CBR Tests

GEOCOMPOSITES
 
Geoenvironmental Pollution Control Using Multilinear Drainage Geocomposite with Perforated Mini-pipes for Internal Drainage and Long-Term Safety of Tailings Dams

GEOCELLS

Enhancing the Bearing Capacity and Settlement Performance of Soft Clay Using Geocell Reinforcement: A 3D Numerical Parametric Study

Field Performance Assessment of Geogrid- and Geocell-reinforced Pavement on Weak Subgrade Using FWD, LWD and Dynamic Field CBR Tests

Queens University Authors’ Graphic Presentation Response to Preston Kendall’s BGM Video [PDF]

Queen’s University Authors’ Detailed Response to Preston Kendall’s BGM Video [PDF]

Strata Sets New Standard with Industry First 19-foot-(5.8 m)-Wide Drainage Composite [PDF]

Could White Geotextiles Have Prevented Nepal’s Flash Floods?

INDUSTRY NEWS

13th IGC Montreal Geosynthetics Conference Presentation Not to Be Missed !
‘Advancing Degradation Resistance in Next-Generation Polyethylene Geomembranes’
Thursday Morning 10.30-11.30 am on 17^th September :  Room 520 bcef
This presentation outlines a comprehensive framework for improving the durability and degradation resistance of polyethylene geomembranes used in high-risk containment environments. The authors (all leading Geomembrane experts) argue that standard compliance checks are insufficient, advocating instead for site-specific testing that accounts for concurrent stressors like heat, chemical exposure, and mechanical strain. By utilizing bimodal polymer architectures and a portfolio of advanced stress-cracking tests, engineers can better predict how liners will perform over decades of service.

Guide to Solmax Technical Presentations at 13ICG 2026 in Montreal

High Court Approves Emergency Geotextile Sandbags for Diaz Beach Erosion in Mossel Bay

No Commitment from Select Board to Bring Geotube Expansion Project Back to Town Meeting

12 Year GCL Study Finds GCL Clay Properties Change Over Time
What a 12-year exhumation study on a GCL reveals about bentonite redistribution, cation exchange, membrane efficiency and the risk of treating virgin GCL data as permanent.

Presentation:  Building Hogans Pocket Landfill Cell 4: from Design to Delivery (15 September 2026)

Megaplast India at 13 ICG 2026: Advanced Geomembrane Solutions in Montreal

NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Georgia Tech Granted Patent for Spider-Web Inspired Geogrids [PDF]

Sensor Develop Conductive Mesh for Leak Detection of Geomembranes [PDF]

Novel Method for Anchoring Geogrids in Landfills

INDUSTRY NEWS

Canadian Government Issues Landfill Methane Recovery and Destruction for Landfills (Version 2.0)
A CH₄ oxidation factor of 0% can only be used for landfills with a geomembrane covering the entire landfill area and no CH₄ oxidation technology

GEOTEXTILES

Enhancing Sand–Geotextile Interface Strength: Effects of Polyurethane, Polyvinyl Alcohol, and Cement Slurry

Key Factors and Predictive Model of Geotextile Bulging Behavior for Flexible Backfill Barricades in Mines

Network Level Monitoring of Granular Surfaced Roads and Performance Evaluation of Geotextiles in Preservation of Granular Surfaced Roads

Civil Engineering and Applied Solutions Enhancing the Performance of High-Speed Railway Slab-Ballast Transition Zones Using Geotextile Reinforcement: A Dynamic-Equivalent 3D Finite Element Investigation

GEOTEXTILE BAGS

Investigation of the Bearing Behaviour of Geogrid-Wrapped Geotextile Bag Retaining Walls Filled with Cement-Modified Soil

GEOTUBE DAMS

Bearing Behaviour of Annular Geotube Dams Considering Interface Friction Effects

GCLs

Multilayer Composite Ecological Restoration GCL Mat for Pollution Control and Vegetation Restoration in Abandoned Mine Lands

GEOGRIDS

Analysis of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Tailings Dam Slopes Subjected to Surface Loads

Risk and failure mechanisms in Geosynthetic-reinforced embankments on soft soils with spatial variability in undrained strength

Hydro-Mechanical Response of Geosynthetic-reinforced Embankments Under Water-level Fluctuations

PAVEMENT GEOSYNTHETICS

Research and Development of Geosynthetic Applications for Flexible Pavement Systems: Numerical Modelling, Data Validation, and Design

GEOFOAM

Large-scale Field Testing and Numerical Modelling of Nanocellulose-Coated EPS Blocks for Roadways Lightweight Embankments