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National Tree Week 2025 – A Future Filled with Trees
National Tree Week 2025 – Start Planting
It’s National Tree Week and the start of the winter tree planting season. At this time of year, young trees are dormant and so experience the least stress when being placed in their new homes. This gives them the best chance of thriving into maturity, with all the...
Stuva 2025 Today
Ready to discover our comprehensive range of ground support solutions – Find us at Stuva Expo! Held in Hamburg, Germany, from 25-26 November, this is one of the world’s leading trade fairs for tunnel and infrastructure construction. The event showcases cutting edge...
National Tree Week 2025 – This Week
It’s National Tree Week, the UK’s largest annual tree celebration, and marks the start of the winter tree planting season. This year celebrates its 50th anniversary and is themed “A Future Filled with Trees”. Trees play a vital role in supporting healthy ecosystems...
Scour Protection with the Environment Agency and Breheny Civil Engineering
Project update! We’ve recently been working with the Environment Agency and Breheny Civil Engineering on a scour protection project. In this difficult access location, a 22m long reach excavator from WM Plant Hire proved crucial, allowing teams to drive Platipus Earth...
Are your long linear assets prepared for winter?
Are your long linear assets prepared for winter? Water saturation within soils can increase pore water and hydrostatic pressure, decreasing the stability of slopes and retaining structures. This compromises both asset integrity and public safety. This was the case on...
Griffen Nursery Open Day 2025
Mandy Balcombe and Ricky de Abreu have been at the Griffen Nurseries open day today. This event has been a fantastic networking opportunity for the landscaping community and even included demonstrations of the Platipus Rootball Fixing System with Plati-Mat®. They...
Global Infrastructure Expo 2025
Platipus and Minova are live at the Global Infrastructure Expo until September 17th. With over 300 exhibitors and 15,000 attendees, this is the place to explore the future of infrastructure. Make sure to visit Jeff Curnick from Platipus and Omar from Minova at stand...
Evergreen Exterior Services Open Evening This Week
Evergreen Open Evening – Only a Few Spaces Remaining! Mandy Balcombe and Ricky de Abreu will be showcasing the Platipus Tree Anchoring Systems on Thursday evening at the Evergreen Exterior Services nursey in Banstead, Surrey, from 4-8 pm. The event promises to be an...
Minova Marketing Workshop
This week, our newly formed Minova Global marketing team met at the Platipus office to share our combined knowledge and formulate our 2026 ambitions. Bringing together Platipus' deep knowledge of construction and infrastructure solutions with Minova Global's mining...
RIN Derby 2025
Platipus Anchors and Minova are at the third instalment of Rail Infrastructure Networking in Derby. Make sure to see craig Jarman and Max du Plessis from Platipus and Lee Hudson, Mark Jolly, and Nick Hurst from Minova, where they’ll be showcasing our comprehensive...
World Photography Day 2025
Today is World Photography Day, an annual...
Franklands Embankment – Securing a Landslip
A slip on this railway embankment left the Brighton Line vulnerable and imposed a temporary speed restriction. Immediate action was critical to prevent further erosion of the embankment and protect the railway line above. The project involved stabilising a 22-metre...
Rail Link Belfast 2025 Today
Rail Link Belfast has Started! Craig Jarman and Sean Beirne-Lewis are at stand Z9, ready to answer any questions you may have about our range of ground support solutions. Held at the NFS Events | Clearer Twist National Stadium at Windsor Park, key players from across...
Union Terrace Gardens Pt2
How did we anchor 91 semi and fully mature trees? With a variety of Platipus Tree Anchoring Systems, most notably the RF3P Rootball Fixing System with Plati-Mat, utilising S8 Percussion Driven Earth Anchors (PDEA®). This system was ideally suited for the larger trees,...
FW Nicol Office Opening
Congratulations to FW Nicol, our distributors in the Philippines, on the opening of their new office in Cebu. To mark this occasion, a seminar was held: “Building from the Ground Up: Innovative Geotechnical Solutions for Safer Infrastructure”. The seminar focused on...
Union Terrace Gardens Pt1
Moving large rootballs is not without its difficulties, and large machinery. The historic space of the Union Terrace Gardens in Aberdeen was set to be transformed into an inclusive and accessible area, allowing for community events, improved safety and boosting...
11th National Slope Symposium Today
Platipus Anchors and Minova are at the 11th National Symposium on Slope Stability today in Bilbao, Spain. Visit Julien Veyret from Platipus and the Minova Team at stand 1 to discuss our comprehensive range of solutions for erosion control, shallow slide remediation,...
11th National Symposium on Slope Stability Next Week
Platipus Anchors and Minova are exhibiting at next week’s 11th National Symposium on Slope Stability from the 8th to 11th of July in Bilbao, Spain. This event brings together leading engineers, researchers, and industry experts to explore advancements in slope...
Win a Signed Copy of My Real Garden
Win a signed copy of this must-read gardening book! We’re giving away two signed copies of My Real Garden, by Ann-Marie Powell, a multiple award-winning garden designer, presenter and writer. To enter, share and like this post. Names will be drawn, and winners...
22nd British Geotechnical Association Conference 2025
Max du Plessis (Platipus) and Mark Jolly (Minova) are exhibiting at the 22nd British Geotechnical Association Conference today. Held at the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in London, this event brings together the geotechnical community with speakers from around...
Ground Engineering Awards 2025
Max du Plessis and Craig Jarman are very pleased to have been invited as guests of Minova and Geobrugg at Wednesday's Ground Engineering Awards. This was a fantastic networking event for the geotechnical community and featured many award-winning projects and...
My Real Garden by Ann-Marie Powell Giveaway Competition
Want to win a signed copy of a must-read gardening book? Platipus Anchors are giving away two signed copies of My Real Garden, by Ann-Marie Powell, a multiple award-winning garden designer, presenter and writer. To enter, repost this post tagging Platipus Anchors, and...
Flood and Coast 2025 Today
Platipus Anchors are back in Telford for this year’s Flood and Coast Conference and Exhibition, taking place from the 3rd to 5th of June. Make sure to meet Craig Jarman and Rohan Jhalla and at stand E3 to explore how Platipus Percussion Driven Earth Anchors (PDEA®)...
Flood and Coast 2025 Next Week
Come and see us at stand E3 during this year’s Flood and Coast 2025 Taking place at the Telford International Centre from the 3rd to 5th of June. Meet @Rohan Jhalla and @Craig Jarman to explore how Platipus Percussion Driven Earth Anchors (PDEA®) are a resilient...
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 has almost concluded
What a fantastic spectacle it has been, with some truly incredible designs brought to life by talented contractors, on what has been another superb Chelsea Flower Show. Congratulations to all the winners. A special mention goes to Killik & Co ‘Save for a Rainy Day...
RIN Glasgow 2025
See Craig Jarman and Rohan Jhalla at Rail Infrastructure Networking in Glasgow today. They’re showcasing our innovative drainage and ground anchoring solutions for erosion control, slope stabilisation, and retaining structures for rail applications. Find out more and...
Introducing Plati-Grip Multi-Purpose Spiral Anchor
PLATI-GRIP™ is a high-performance spiral anchor ideal for securing erosion control matting or geosynthetics and complements Platipus’ existing range of erosion and slope stability anchoring solutions. With its unique dual-thread design, PLATI-GRIP installs quickly by...
RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2025 Officially Opens
This years RHS Chelsea Flower Show officially opens to the public tomorrow. Platipus Tree Anchoring Systems are incredibly proud to have played a role in securing trees at many of the award-winning show gardens over the years. Here a few highlights from the previous...
There’s still time to register! Join us tomorrow for an exclusive look at Matthew Childs’ RHS Silver Gilt Medal winning garden
The Story behind Matthews Childs' Award-Winning RHS Chelsea - 'Bridge to 2030 Garden' There’s still time to register! Join us tomorrow for an exclusive look at Matthew Childs' RHS Silver Gilt Medal winning garden from this prestigious 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. His...
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