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Bursting with Excitement


A chance encounter at an Institute of Demolition Engineers seminar has helped bring non-explosive blasting technology to the UK. Mark Anthony reports. I now know how Cupid must feel. A few years back, I received a phone call from Dutch company NXBurst which was trying to make inroads into the UK market with its non-explosive blasting cartridge system. I suggested that they attend the Institute of Demolition Engineers Spring seminar in Leeds, introduced them to a few people and then went back to my day job. Little did I know that the seed was sown during the seminar and that Duncan Rudall – IDE event co-ordinator on that fateful day – would later become the sole UK agent for the product. “I was impressed with the product the moment I saw it,” Rudall says. “It is the perfect halfway house between blasting and breaking with none of the vibration of the former and none of the noise or vibration of the latter.” Rudall, together with his business partner Allan Poxton, has spent the past few years


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