DSI consolida sus actividades de negocio en el mercado de los túneles

DSI consolidates business activities in the expanding tunneling market

Consolidation of the existing DSI tunneling activities with the newly acquired companies ALWAG Tunnelausbau Ges.M.B.H. (ALWAG), Austria, and American Commercial Incorporated (ACI), USA

DSI´s key focus is on developing, manufacturing and supplying qualitatively high-grade products and systems for the tunneling market. DSI successfully concluded two strategically important acquisitions in September and October 2006 to further strengthen this trade segment.

As a single-source provider, ALWAG Tunnelausbau Ges.m.b.H. (ALWAG) located in Pasching near Linz, Austria, has held a strong position on the European market with its patented products and systems for a long time. ALWAG´s most important systems and products include AT casing systems, lattice girders and anchorage drilling systems that are continuously being developed by intense R&D activities.

Almost at the same time, DSI acquired American Commercial Incorporated (ACI) located in Bristol, VA, USA. ACI  is one of the leading providers of tunneling products and systems in  the North and Central American markets. One of ACI´s competitive advantages is its customer-specific system solution for tunneling and its manufacturing capability to produce steel arches, liner plates as well as a large range of other market leading products and equipment.  

Both aforementioned acquisitions sustainably enhance the business activities of the DSI Group on the tunneling market.

As a result of the integration of the market leading companies ALWAG and ACI, DSI combines its  global tunneling activities including its Tunneling activities in Australia that serves the Asia Pacific Region, into  a new specialist  tunneling division with its headquarters located at the offices of ALWAG in Austria. From there all tunneling activities of the DSI Group in  the American, European and Asia Pacific markets are controlled.

All R&D activities of DSI Tunneling will now be coordinated by the new tunneling division. This will result in more effective service for customers who will undoubtedly benefit from the transfer of technology between DSI companies that have developed an expertise in all aspects of strata control technology.

DSI with its headquarters in Munich, Germany, has over 1,800 employees worldwide, with operations across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas. As a result of consolidation of  its tunneling activities into a new business division , DSI is in a position to provide  to  global markets a full range of strata control  products backed with technical support and innovation.