Suvarnabhumi Airport is the main international airport of Thailand, serving both domestic and international flights and acting as one of the primary gateways to Southeast Asia for travelers in the region. The airport is located east of Bangkok, less than 15 minutes from Dextra’s main manufacturing facility.

Dextra has been involved since the beginning of the Suvarnabhumi construction in 2001 and continues to play a role in the airport’s latest expansion projects.

Over the years, Dextra has provided a wide range of technical solutions to support various contractors on different parts of the project.

For foundation piles, diaphragm walls, columns, beams, and other concrete structures, Bartec rebar couplers have been extensively used throughout the airport. This popular coupler solution ensures safe rebar connections, both vertical and horizontal. In Thailand, Dextra also handles rebar preparation services, which are carried out at our own threading yard in Bangkok.

The terminal roofs and concourses were designed to use Dextra Tension Rod Systems as cross-trusses. These high-performance large bar systems are easy to install and adjust in length, thanks to their fork ends and in-line connectors, while also contributing to the overall aesthetics of the terminal structure.

For the plane remote parking area, where aircraft fine-tune communications with the control tower, Dextra supplied large-diameter FRP dowel bars to connect the tarmac concrete slabs. Dextra’s FRP bars offer similar tensile performance to steel bars but help reduce the interference typically associated with metallic structures.

Kuwait International Airport is the country’s main airport, located to the south of Kuwait City. The hub currently handles more than 9 million passengers annually and is home to the renowned Kuwait Airways, Jazeera Airways, and Wataniya Airways.

A new state-of-the-art terminal

This new infrastructure is part of the airport’s expansion project, aimed at enhancing its status as the State of Kuwait’s gateway. When completed, the Terminal II building will form a triangular shape, symbolizing Kuwait and reflecting the country’s rich culture and civilization.

Scheduled for completion in 2020, this striking five-story terminal building will be capable of handling 25 million passengers annually and will be connected to the first terminal via a tunnel.

From the foundations to the roofs

For this project, the lead Turkish contractor Limak Holding and its Kuwaiti agent Kharafi National selected Dextra’s Rolltec rebar coupler solution for rebar splicing in all the building’s concrete structures. Thanks to its rolled-parallel threaded system, along with its simple preparation and installation process, this splicing solution helps shorten construction cycle times.

For the terminal’s impressive structure, the contractors also chose Dextra’s high-performance Smooth Post-Tensioning Bar Systems. Featuring smooth carbon steel bars and rolled threads, the high-tensile PT Bar system offers exceptional fatigue and strength performance, as well as high impact resistance.

For more information about our products, including rebar splicing and engineered bar systems, please contact the Dextra team in Dubai.

The Mexico City New International Airport is a major infrastructure project designed by Sir Norman Foster and launched in 2014. It aims to provide Mexico’s capital with a state-of-the-art airport hub by 2020. The project is located to the east of Mexico City and is set to accommodate an annual passenger capacity of 68 million, surpassing the previous Benito Juarez Airport, which currently handles 41.7 million passengers annually and is the busiest airport in Latin America. The project features an X-shaped passenger terminal, three runways, and a control tower.

For this, the largest infrastructure project in Latin America, Dextra has been involved in supplying its Bartec rebar couplers for the foundations of the terminal building (contractor ICA), the transport building (contractor Sacyr), and the control tower (contractor Aldesa).

Bartec couplers, often preferred in seismic areas like Mexico, replace the traditional lapping of large ASTM #12 rebar (equivalent to 38mm) on this project. For such large diameters, it is both faster and more cost-effective to connect bars with couplers rather than using traditional overlapping methods.

Dextra has provided Mexico Airport with up to 10 sets of Bartec equipment (a total of 30 machines, with each set delivered in a container) for all rebar preparation operations. This impressive setup has been supported by our local After Sales team, who have trained the machine operators and maintained the equipment to ensure optimal productivity.