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La Máquina - Tunnel-Boring Machinery for Mexico - Part 2: the plan # 04.01.2011 # Made in Germany

Markus KopplinJanuary 5, 2011

The Herrenknecht company specializes in tunnel-boring equipment. Three of its enormous drilling machines tare in Mexico to solve an equally massive problem: the inadequate drainage and wastewater system of Mexico City. The Mexican government is building what will be the world's longest wastewater tunnel, the 62-kilometer 'Tunél Emisor Oriente'.

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