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Current topics
Newsflash | June 2022
Delaware trials
On the Delaware Memorial Bridge in the United States, trial installations have now been completed of the two types of TENSA®POLYFLEX flexible plug expansion joint that are to be used to replace all of the bridge’s expansion joints in the coming years...
Australian approvals
After a long and demanding certification process, mageba is delighted to have now become the first supplier to be awarded general approvals in New South Wales for its single gap (“nosing”) and cantilever finger expansion joints equipped with AS5100.4-compliant, fatigue-resistant anchorage systems – making it no longer necessary to obtain project-specific approvals for future projects...
Hinges for cantilevers
The balanced cantilever method of bridge construction offers significant benefits, but requires a high-tech design for the hinge detail that connects the cantilever tips at each mid-span discontinuity – such as the central hinge bearings recently supplied by mageba for the New Brahmaputra Bridge at Tezpur, India...
Circular motion
The expansion joints we supply for bridges and buildings must typically be designed to facilitate some degree of transverse movement of the superstructure – generally much less than the longitudinal movement – but the two-level Geumgang Pedestrian Bridge in South Korea, with its circular shape, required expansion joints that will accommodate an unusual combination of movements...
Local in Slovakia
The bearings and expansion joints for the bridges of a new section of highway in southern Slovakia have been supplied by mageba’s local subsidiary...
A first for Guatemala City
mageba is proud to have recently provided the seismic protection solution for the first seismically isolated building in Guatemala City – and one of the first in Central America...
Seismic safety
mageba’s team in the United States is proud to have been selected to help develop and supply a comprehensive seismic protection solution for a new arch bridge in the Californian city of Corona...
Newsflash | April 2022
Budapest to Belgrade
A new high-speed railway connection between the capital cities of Hungary and Serbia is being built with mageba structural bearings and expansion joints used in the construction of many of its bridges...
Australian made
When BHP undertook a major bridge renovation project on a railway line serving its mining facilities in Western Australia, it required that all of the bearings be fully manufactured in Australia – and mageba was happy to oblige...
Hong Kong record
With the supply of structural bearings for Hong Kong’s new Kai Tak Sports Park, mageba is extending its long track record of manufacturing bearings and expansion joints for the buildings and bridges that make up the city’s impressive event and transportation infrastructure...
Extradosed Experience
The new bridge over the Narmada river at Bharuch in Gujarat, India, which has now been equipped with mageba disc bearings, spherical bearings and modular expansion joints, is just the latest impressive extradosed bridge for which we have supplied such key components...
The new alternative to rock and roll!
Rocker bearings and roller bearings, both of which provide linear support to a bridge superstructure while allowing rotation about one axis only, are no longer state-of-the-art bearing solutions – mageba’s new RESTON®CYLINDER bearings now offer better performance and new functionalities...
