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Strata India Achieves National Highway Construction Milestone Print E-mail


As an emerging nation India is a case study in milestone events – economic growth, global joint ventures and rapid investments in infrastructure, from airports to highways. It’s in this last category – highway construction – that Strata India recently completed a milestone event for the company and for the nation.

By the end of May, Strata India had produced retaining walls for 16 overpass structures in little more than 10 months along an 80-kilometer highway stretching between Mumbai and Surat. More than 1 million special concrete blocks were produced on-site and used to create the flyover structures, some of which are more than 40 feet high. More than 1 million square yards of StrataGrid® was used to stabilize the soils used in building the overpasses.

“The products that Strata offers are right in our sweet spot – technical, designed for a special application and unlike anything else on the market.”
– Allen Gant

“Nothing of this scale and speed in highway construction has been done before in India,” said Ashok Bhawnani, president of Strata India. “This project is taking our company to new heights and has established Strata India as a major player in highway construction.”

Making this accomplishment even more remarkable is the fact that just seven years ago, Strata India was a tiny distributorship consisting of four employees who were involved in importing StrataGrid from the U.S. into India. Today, Strata India has nearly 150 employees, and StrataGrid is the No. 1 selling geogrid material in India. In addition, Strata India has expanded to include not only the manufacture of geogrid, but also engineering and design services for highway structures, fabrication of concrete blocks and panels, and installation of retaining walls for flyovers. The company is also pursuing growth in the Middle East and other markets. Read Full Story >

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Strata India is constructing overpasses (flyovers) as part of India’s massive national highway building program

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Construction of new retaining wall

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Ashok Bhawnani, president of Strata India, left, and Chip Fuller, president of Strata Systems Inc., at the Strata India plant in Mumbai,India.
 

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