HESCO Bastion Ltd has been on hand to aid civil engineers with a wide range of environmental issues for over 10 years. Originally designed to combat the effects of coastal erosion, HESCO Bastion Concertainer has since been used extensively throughout the world for other civil engineering applications.
The versatility of a HESCO Barrier Concertainer structure enables it to be used across a variety of applications such as coastal erosion, flood protection, river and bank stabilisation, retaining walls, land reinforcement and soil conservation.
A galvanized steel unit lined with geotextile fabric, HESCO Barrier Concertainer is completely assembled during manufacture, ensuring rapid installation. Available in a wide range of sizes, units can be joined and extended using the provided joining pins. The primary advantage of the product is its ability to utilise locally available fill material to rapidly construct walls and other structures with minimal manpower and resources.
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2-1-2804, Wanlong International Business,
Shijiazhuang City, China.
Tel: +86 3118 7733 505
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Workers, bosses get fiscal relief
Bid to ease financial woes of flood victims
Published: 1/12/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
The Social Security Fund has decided to cut the contributions of flood-affected employers and workers to the fund and lend money at low fixed interest rates to struggling business operators next year.
Its in the bag
Volunteers and staff from Unilever Thailand help pack relief bags at the Thai-Japanese stadium in Din Daeng yesterday. More than 300,School opening postponed to Dec 13-Hesco barrier,000 bags, worth about 100 million baht,Froc Eastern area dry next week-Hesco Bastion, contain items produced by the company to be donated to flood victims under a campaign called Unilever TakeUHome. THITI WANNAMONTHA
Somkiat Chayasriwong,field fences, permanent secretary for labour and SSF chairman, yesterday said the cut will be applied on contributions from both employers and employees to ease their financial burden in the wake of the flood crisis.
From January to June next year, the contributions to the fund from the two parties will be lowered to 3% from the normal rate of 5% of employees’ salaries. The contribution rate for July and December will be adjusted to 4%.
The government will maintain its contribution to the fund at the equivalent of 2.75% of employees’ salaries.
BMA raises four sluice gates
The SSF will also provide loans worth 10 billion baht to boost the liquidity of flood-affected business operators.
The loans will be available from Jan 1 next year with 3% interest fixed for three years for borrowers with collateral and 5% interest fixed for three years for borrowers without collateral.
Operators with up to 50 employees can borrow up to one million baht each. Those with 51-200 workers may borrow up to 2 million baht and those with 201 employees or more can borrow up to 4 million baht.
The operators who are eligible for the loans must employ workers who have been members of the SSF for at least three months. They can seek the loans through three banks _ Krung Thai Bank, Government Savings Bank and Islamic Bank of Thailand.
The Labour Ministry will seek cabinet approval for it to issue regulations detailing the assistance under the scheme, Mr Somkiat said.
Meanwhile, workers of flooded factories especially in Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani province are concerned about their job security because they wonder if their employers can resume running their businesses. However, authorities expect the flood impact on employment to be short-lived.
The concern is serious for workers at the Saha Rattana Nakorn Industrial Estate in Ayutthaya and the Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate in Pathum Thani as the compounds still remain at least one metre under water. There are more than 400 factories in both industrial estates but operators are still unable to salvage their plants and employment concerns have arisen for more than 170,000 people who worked there.
Many workers gathered at the entrance of the Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate in Khlong Luang district of Pathum Thani yesterday to inquire about the status of their workplaces. They are uncertain if their factories will resume production and if they will still be employed.
They said that some employers paid them 50% to 75% of their salaries during the flooding, but other employers had laid off workers.
Suthasinee Kaeoleklai,annealed wire, labour relief coordinator in Ayutthaya and nearby provinces, said workers at flooded industrial estates were in deep trouble because they lived in rented rooms while local administrators gave relief bags only to people with house registrations in their areas.
As they are ineligible to receive relief bags, the workers do not have enough food to eat while their salaries were cut during the flooding.
Some employers lured workers into resigning from their jobs during flooding by claiming that voluntary resignation would guarantee their re-employment in the future.
“Actually the voluntary resignation deprives the workers of unemployment compensation,” Ms Suthasinee said.
“Nearly 100,000 workers at the Nava Nakorn Industrial Estate are faced with this problem.”
Mr Somkiat said more than 14,000 workplaces remain flooded. These factories employ more than 660,000 workers.
Thirty-one enterprises have laid off nearly 10,000 people and 11 more companies are likely to follow suit by laying off another 2,600 workers.
Most flood-affected enterprises will resume their business and recruit workers again. The Labour Ministry has prepared 150,000 jobs for the workers who cannot return to their companies.
The Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board said medium- and large-scale industries in Ayutthaya and Pathum Thani have suspended production since Oct 8. They make high-technology products, automobiles and electronic products.
Production halts have also taken place at industrial estates that face flood risks in Bangkok. The situation affects about 380,000 workers in the three provinces. The flooding this year also affected 600,000 foreign workers in deluge-hit provinces as a whole.
Factory and machine repairs and salvage will take one to three months while automotive and electronic industries will take six months to resume.
Employment will drop both in production and service sectors. Impacts are relatively serious on self-employed people, sub-contractor and daily workers.
The office said the unemployment rate will rise to 1.8-2.3% in the last quarter of this year,Estate operators erect flood dykes against future deluges-HESCO, equivalent to 730,000 to 920,000 people compared with 0.7% during the past three quarters.
Military Barriers/Hesco Bastions
Information
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible metal wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner,Gabion Mattress, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
Assembly
Assembling the Hesco Bastion entails unfolding it and (if available) using a front end loader to fill it with sand, dirt or gravel. The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier. The main advantage of Military Barrier, strongly contributing to their popularity with troops and flood fighters, is the quick and easy setup. Previously, people had to fill sandbags, a slow undertaking, with one worker filling about 20 sandbags per hour. Workers using Military Barrier and a front end loader can do ten times the work of those using sandbags.
The Hesco Barrier come in a variety of sizes. Most of the barriers can also be stacked, and they are shipped collapsed in compact sets. Example dimensions of typical configurations are 46″ x 36″ x 32 (1.4m x 1.1m x 9.8m) to 7 x 5 x 100 (2.1m x 1.5m x 30m).
A new system of Hesco Bastion developed specially for military use is deployed from a container, which is dragged along the line of ground where the barrier is to be formed, unfolding up to several hundred meters of barrier in minutes, ready for filling with soil by a backhoe.
Protection
Filled with sand, 60 centimetres (24 inches) of barrier thickness will stop rifle bullets and shell fragments. It takes 1.5 metres (five feet) of thickness to prevent penetration by a rocket propelled grenade round. Approximately 1.2 metres (four feet) of thickness provides protection against most car bombs.
Specification
Flood impact will last for months,barbed wire fence
Published: 3/12/2011 at 12:00 AM
Newspaper section: News
The Bank of Thailand has lowered its economic growth projection for this year to 1.8%, from the previous forecast of 2.6%, as a result of the floods.
A monk cleans a temple after floods start to recede in Ayutthaya province last month. While the Bank of Thailand has revised upwards its growth forecast for next year,Binding wire,Flood death toll rises to 666-barbed wirel materials, on the back of a post-flood recovery,Leadership under crisis Learning from the unexpected-改拔丝电焊网, figures released by the Finance Ministry paint a grim picture of the damage caused by the worst floods in more than 50 years.
The devil is in the detail
However, the BoT expects the economy to expand by 4.8% next year, from a previous projection of 4.1% on the back of the government’s spending in projects to rehabilitate flood-hit areas and to rebuild the country.
The bank’s Monetary Policy Committee met on Wednesday and cut the one-day repurchase rate by 0.25 percentage points to 3.25%, from 3.5%, to boost the economy.
Despite the healthy growth projections for next year, figures released by Somchai Sajjaphong, director of the fiscal policy office at the Finance Ministry, paint a grim picture of the damage incurred by the floods, says Post Today.
Value-added tax receipts in October rose 11.3% compared to the same time the previous year.
In the previous month, tax receipts were up 13.3%.
Imports grew 6% compared to the same time last year, as against 12.9% in September.
Automobile sales fell 38.8% on the same month last year, compared to an increase of 29.6% in the previous month, while motorcycle sales dipped 4.6% on the same time the previous year, compared to 11.4% growth in September.
The consumer confidence index was 62.8% in October compared to 72.7% in September.
Private sector investment was hit as well. Pickup truck sales, an indicator of economic activity, fell 41.8% in October compared to the same time the previous year,安装夹, with growth of 25.7% in the previous month.
The real estate transaction tax dipped 17%, and the manufacturing index shrank 34.5%. In the previous month, manufacturing expanded 69.2%.
Tourist arrivals in October were 1.4 million, 7% up on the same time last year, compared to growth of 22.7% in the previous month.
Post Today said the negative figures had yet to reflect the full impact of the floods, which inundated seven industrial estates in Ayuttaya and Pathum Thani, and thousands of houses and rice fields in the provinces along the Chao Phraya River from Nakhon Sawan down to Ayutthaya and Bangkok.
Trade and business in inner Bangkok slumped as few Bangkok residents were in the mood to do business or go shopping.
On the western front, the floods inundated Nong Khaem, Bang Khae, and Phasi Charoen districts, which have more than 500 small and medium sized enterprises, while Rama II Road was spared even though some predicted the flood would inundate this important route to the South as well.
Bank of Thailand governor Prasarn Trairatvorakhun said monetary policy would have to be loosened to take into account the floods.
It is the first time the bank has lowered the policy rate this year, which had been rising steadily since December last year to combat inflation.
Other institutions have lowered their economic growth forecasts this year to no more than 2%.
The government is trying to revive the economy, telling the Government Savings Bank to issue loans of up to 15 billion baht to industrial estates to build permanent floodwalls and another 40 billion baht to companies in the flooded industrial estates so they can get on their feet again.
Meanwhile, chairman of the strategic committee for reconstruction, Virabhongsa Ramangkura, has gone to Britain to tell re-insurance companies that Thailand is serious about averting future flood threats, while Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Kittiratt Na-Ranong went to Japan to persuade investors to continue investing in Thailand.
The cabinet this week also backed a Finance Ministry proposal to allow Honda to import built-up vehicles with no import tariffs after the firm’s factory was inundated by floods.
Post Today said ordinary Thais affected by floods appeared to be getting a poor deal, with the government approving flood relief for affected households of 5,000 baht each, or in cases of total disaster, 30,000 baht.
The newspaper asked why they were not given personal income tax exemptions for a year, or allowed to deduct from tax their expenses in restoring their homes.
Meanwhile, signs are emerging that commercial banks will extend only limited relief to flood-hit businesses.
They are likely to extend the repayment period for those businesses, but withhold approving new loans as many lack adequate collateral or guarantors.
Post Today said a drop in economic activity caused by the floods may last at least six months.
National Economic and Social Development Board forecast last month that the economy will contract by 3.7% in the fourth quarter, down from a previous projection of 5% before the floods, depressing annual growth to 1.5% from the earlier projection of 3.5% to 4%.
The newspaper said while Thais are likely to spend their savings on restoring flood-damaged homes and businesses, which could help boost growth, overall spending might not increase if consumers lack confidence. Meanwhile, retailers may have to resort to sales and promotions to stimulate consumer demand.
A year of disasters
This was a year of natural disasters with earthquakes, droughts and floods affecting various corners of the Earth, noted Post Today.
The climactic weather events curtailed food production, which hurt the the world’s poor.
The World Bank 2011 report says about 44 million people in developing countries are extremely poor,Super ‘floodway’ mooted for Thai floods-hesco bastion, as about 75% of their income goes on food. In 2010, a heat wave in Russia and Ukraine devastated wheat fields, resulting in the global wheat price rising 60-80% in July and August that year.
Sorghum in Somalia rose 393%, while corn in Ethiopia and Kenya rose 191% and 161% respectively due to droughts in the region. Tropical storms and typhoons in the Asia-Pacific region destroyed rice crops in Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, raising the grain price 25-30% in September-October this year compared to the same period last year.
However, the Food and Agriculture Organisation is sure the global rice price will not rise as much as other grains because big rice producing countries such as China and India have brought in abundant rice crops this year. Another UN report warned global grain production is falling due to deteriorating soil conditions caused by fertilisers.
Military Barriers/Hesco Bastions
Information
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible steel wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
Assembly
Assembling the Hesco Bastion entails unfolding it and (if available) using a front end loader to fill it with sand, dirt or gravel. The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier. The main advantage of Military Barrier, strongly contributing to their popularity with troops and flood fighters, is the quick and easy setup. Previously, people had to fill sandbags, a slow undertaking, with one worker filling about 20 sandbags per hour. Workers using Military Barrier and a front end loader can do ten times the work of those using sandbags.
The Hesco Barrier come in a variety of sizes. Most of the barriers can also be stacked, and they are shipped collapsed in compact sets. Example dimensions of typical configurations are 46″ x 36″ x 32 (1.4m x 1.1m x 9.8m) to 7 x 5 x 100 (2.1m x 1.5m x 30m).
A new system of Hesco Bastion developed specially for military use is deployed from a container, which is dragged along the line of ground where the barrier is to be formed, unfolding up to several hundred meters of barrier in minutes, ready for filling with soil by a backhoe.
Protection
Filled with sand, 60 centimetres (24 inches) of barrier thickness will stop rifle bullets and shell fragments. It takes 1.5 metres (five feet) of thickness to prevent penetration by a rocket propelled grenade round. Approximately 1.2 metres (four feet) of thickness provides protection against most car bombs.
Specification
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
The department on Wednesday reported the toll at 661.
The provinces are Nakhon Sawan, Chai Nat,Thailand’s Thongchai in floods appeal-Steel Fence Post, Angthong, Ayutthaya, Lopburi, Saraburi, Suphanburi, Nakhon Pathom, Pathum Thani, Nonthaburi, Samut Sakhon, Samut Prakhan, Nakhon Nayok, Chachoengsao, Bangkok, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Trang, Songlkhla, Phatthalung, Yala and Pattani.
A total of 666 people were confirmed dead and three people were missing in the floods that inundated Bangkok and other provinces in several regions, the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Department reported on Thursday.
The floods still prevail in 21 provinces including Bangkok, affecting 5,162,319 people,sheep fence,Thai PM leaves hospital, visiting Vietnam Wednesday afternoon-black annealed wire, it said.
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner,Tunnelling toward a city with no more flood woes-砖带电焊网, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
A host of photographers, both professional and amateur,Geotextile, captured the mayhem caused in various parts of the country by the ongoing floods, the most destructive in living memory. While some of these images have already been widely circulated online and in the media, many remarkable shots may have yet to be uploaded or developed.
Entitled Water+Empathy 2011, the show is being organised in tandem with the Royal Photographic Society of Thailand,Tunnelling toward a city with no more flood woes-砖带电焊网,fence posts,Flood prevention the easy way-wire mesh, the BACC, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration and the Tourism Authority of Thailand. Its aim is three-fold: to amass a pictorial record of the national disaster; to highlight the indomitable spirit of Thai people as they coped with the floods and extended a helping hand to others who needed it; and to raise funds to allow the Fine Arts Department to restore sites of historic significance which have been inundated.
HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will be contributing some pictures she took while touring flooded areas. Photographs chosen for the exhibition will also be displayed online (visit www.bigcamera.co.th/Water+Empathy2011).
A photo of the flooded Wat Chaiwattanaram taken by HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control,挂网, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
Last week, the Ministry of Culture issued an open invitation to members of the public to submit personal photos taken of the floods for possible display at an exhibition to be staged from December 8 to 30 on the 9th floor of Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC), and from December 11 to 15 at the Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Tourism Complex in the Old City Hall in Ayutthaya.
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
Mr Rungroj told police investigators that he made off with about 80,000 baht and spent it on drugs and other items.
CSD commander Pol Maj Gen Supisarn Phakdeenaruenart said yesterday the suspects were believed to have tampered with the hotlines of at least two television programmes that raised funds for flood victims.
The company detected something unusual shortly after it started raising funds for the flood victims on Oct 24 through its television programme Ratcharot Ma Koey.
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Rungroj Maddeen,Tunnelling toward a city with no more flood woes-HESCO, 31,不锈钢丝, and his half-sister Marisa Ranjuanjit, 25, were nabbed after Workpoint Entertainment, a media company,楼梯钢格板, asked the Crime Suppression Division to track down a gang which had tampered with its telephone system to steal the donated money.
However, Pol Maj Gen Supisarn said police would have to check with banks to find out how much the suspects had stolen.
As well as Ratcharot Ma Koey, news talk programme Khao Khon Kon Khao, was also targetted. Both programmes are aired on Monday to Friday on Mcot Plc’s Channel 9.
Pol Maj Gen Supisarn said the suspects admitted tampering with the phone lines of several other programmes broadcast on local cable television stations.
Rungroj Maddeen, 31, and his half-sister Marisa Ranjuanjit,安装夹, 25, of Nakhon Si Thammarat, have been arrested for their alleged involvement in a phone scam which tricked flood donors into transferring money to their bank accounts. RATTASEEMA PONGSAN
The company changed the telephone number, only for the line to be meddled with again. Losses were estimated at up to 1 million baht.
A Workpoint Entertainment staff member made a call to the number displayed on the programme and found it had been redirected to an unidentified person who posed as a company representative.
The audience was encouraged to call the contact centre to donate. But after a week no calls had been made.
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Initially police has estimated the total theft amount at about 5 million baht.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control,钢板网, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
The QIAOSHI’s Military Barriers or Hesco Bastions is a modern gabion used for flood control and military fortification. It is made of a collapsible wire mesh container and heavy duty fabric liner,钢格板-Black Wire Cloth,龟甲型钢板网, and used as a temporary to semi-permanent dike or barrier against blast or small-arms. One of the less heralded life- and labor-saving devices of war, it is used on nearly every United States Military base in Iraq as well as on NATO bases in Afghanistan.
Originally designed for use on beaches and marshes for erosion and flood control, the Hesco Bastion quickly became a popular security device in the 1990s.
