Drilline Products is pleased to welcome the appointment of Matthew Bunting to its management team. Matthew, who has been involved with GPR for the past four years and holds a degree in electrical engineering.

This appointment will only enhance the technical knowledge and expertise of Georadar within Drilline as well as raising again the commitment and support we can offer to our many loyal customers

Drilline Products is pleased to announce the UK launch of the new Stream-C Compact Array GPR system. The product is the latest innovation from IDS specifically designed for accurate 3D utility mapping with its dense multi-channel array.

Stream-C features include:
• 34 antennas in two polarizations which enables the user to perform a single scan to detect and construct pipes in both directions
• Automatic pipe detection in real time
• Compact design idea for use in the footpath or small areas
• 3D Radar Tomography, real time with the assistance of GPS or Total Station
• The system ensures that the user can deliver a professional utility mapping service

Please contact our office to arrange a demonstration of the Stream-C system and its software

Drilline Products is pleased to welcome the appointment of Valter Baroncini to its management team. Valter has over 15 years’ experience working with IDS Georadar systems in their customer care department, which for the last few years has been their Customer Care Manager. Valter has taken the move, with his family, to come to the UK and is very focused and excited by the new challenge’s that lay ahead during the next few years.

This appointment will only enhance technical knowledge and expertise of Georadar within Drilline as well as raising again the commitment and support we can offer to our many loyal customers.

MacLeod Simmonds, a leading UK based utility mapping company, have doubled their IDS Stream-EM capability with the purchase of the latest version through Drilline Products.

The Stream EM is a vehicle towed multi-channel Ground Penetrating Radar solution dedicated to utility mapping. The system has been designed to enable the user to cover large survey areas, this is achievable because the system is operating with 40 separate channels, enabling the best quality results possible. The solution includes double polarized (VV and HH) antennas, this enables the Stream-EM to travel in a single direction but collect the data for both the longitudinal and transversal pipes detection. The system can obtain data up to a maximum speed of 15 Km/h.

Craig Simmonds, Managing Director at MacLeod Simmonds, first invested in the technology several years ago when he was involved in the development with the Italian manufacturer IDS. The latest version of the system has been successful with users throughout the world and is seen by IDS and Drilline as the future of GPR for utility mapping.

MK Surveys have continued their investment in IDS GPR systems with a purchase of a four antenna Hi-MOD mapping system and post-processing software. MK Surveys have previously purchased many of the award winning on-site Detector DUO GPR systems and built their utility surveying department up for many years with this product. With the increase in the market for more surveys to be mapped and the data post-processed MK Surveys decided to invest in the modular and versatile Hi-MOD system, which can be easily changed from a single through to a four antenna configuration. Stuart Dimond, Director at MK Surveys said ‘the IDS Hi-MOD system will not only complement our existing range of GPR systems but also improve our final deliverable as part of our commitment to quality and consistency within the PAS128 specification for utility surveys’

Drilline have delivered a full four antenna version of the IDS Hi-MOD GPR mapping system to Survey Design Services Ltd based in Whitstable, Kent.  SDS Ltd has been a user of IDS GPR equipment for a few years and was already using the GRED post-processing software with data acquired using the Detector DUO, so the step-up to the Hi-MOD equipment, which is widely regarded as a professional mapping system, was an easy move for them.

The Hi-MOD is a versatile and modular GPR system that can be used in a single, twin, three or four antenna configuration to fit the project work being undertaken.

Picture shows Nolan Forwood, Director at Survey Design Services Ltd taking delivery of the system from Colin Tickle, MD of Drilline Products.

Drilline Products are proud to announce that during November this year they have sold the first Detector DUO GPR system into South Africa.

Grounded Pty, a Horizontal Directional Drilling contractor, based in Cape Town needed to invest in GPR technology to avoid hitting utilities in the Eastern Cape city and the surrounding areas whilst they were carrying out their HDD projects, which mainly involve installation of expensive communications cables.

As Drilline was an existing supplier of drilling parts and tooling the management at Grounded Pty made some enquiries about GPR technology.  A few phone calls later and we were on our way to Cape Town to deliver the system and do some in depth training to the customers drilling crews.

Drilline hope that this will be the first of many GPR systems into South Africa for use within utility detection.