The Grand Paris Express is a major urban transport project taking place all around the French Capital. The project will add 4 new lines (lines 15, 16, 17 and 18) and extend two existing lines (11 and 14).

Dextra has been involved on the packages of several stations through its local distributor partners. On the line 14 in particular, Dextra supplied Fortec rebar couplers in stations of Orsay and Pont Cardinet.

For the Bagneux Station in the North of Paris, located at the crossing of metro line 4 and future line 15, Dextra supplied its ASTEC Active Anchors.

ASTEC Active Anchors are the preferred solution for subway stations works as Tunnel Boring Machines and earth-moving equipment can simply cut the anchors’ FRP tendons at any stage, eliminating any need of unreliable and costly removal of anchors. The solution was approved for this project by consulting firm SYSTRA.

After numerous successful projects in the Middle East, this was the first time ASTEC Active Anchors (a recent Dextra innovation) were installed in Europe.