Geocomposites is defined as a combination of two or more geosynthetic products, used for specific applications in civil engineering. Geocomposites can be made by pairing products such as geonets, geomembranes, geogrids, or geotextiles. They are designed to solve specific geotechnical challenges with soil terrains, or topographical situations. For example, a combination of a geonet and geotextile at Strata Geosystems is manufactured at our plants. This particular product called StrataDrain is a composite product used for landfill, mining, and civil works. It is a drainage composite comprised of HDPE geonet core laminated with non-woven geotextiles, on one or both sides.
Geocomposites serve four key uses: separation, drainage, reinforcement, and filtration. Geocomposites can be used either horizontally, or vertically, based on the application type. The most common variant is geonets bonded with geotextiles. When used horizontally, they are a popular choice for leachate collection in landfills, or for reinforcement, and separation on paved highways.
This category of geocomposite is preferred in embankments constructed over soft soils where water drainage is an important consideration because of its strong planar drainage capability. When added as a layer between the subsoil and subgrade, this layer of geocomposite serves as both a separator and drainage system, preventing the subgrade from becoming contaminated with fine-grained subsoil. It also reduces excess pore water pressure, improving the embankment’s stability, and creates an even distribution of load over the subsoil. Thanks to its thickness, it also mitigates the need for sand which is helpful in geographies where the local sand may be suboptimal in quality, by working as a sandwich layer. In other instances such as slope wall reinforcement, due to its ability to drain water, it can aid with draining water away from the wall, when placed behind a retention wall, vertically as a drainage layer so that water is flowing towards or away from the wall.
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Director, President – Glen Raven Technical Fabrics
Strata/Glen Raven tenure: 10 years/28 years
Total industry experience: 35 years
MBA – Wake Forest University
Directs the strategic direction of Glen Raven’s automotive, protective apparel, military, geogrid, outdoor and logistic businesses.
Director, General Manager, Strata Inc.
Strata/Strata Inc. tenure: 3 years/14 years
Total industry experience: 25 years
MBA – Georgia State University
Led the integration of Strata Inc. business operations into the headquarters of GRTF and transition from USA based to India based manufacturing.
Director
Strata tenure: 17 years
Total industry experience: 47 years
CA – ICA
Played a key role in the establishment of Strata’s India operations. Provides vision for product innovation and leveraging new technology trends.
Global Technical Sales Director
Strata tenure: 7 years
Total industry experience: 32 years
Civil & Geotechnical Engineer (First class)
Provides highly technical and innovative civil engineering solutions in India and around the world. Responsible for the design and execution of large-scale geotechnical projects around the world including Australia, Asia, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and South America.
CTO – Chief Technology Officer
Strata tenure: 9 years
Total industry experience: 48 years
BTech (Hons), MTech (Civil) Both IIT Bombay, DMS (Bombay University), FIE, FIGS, Chartered Engineer
Streamlines the designs of Geosynthetics and has brought innovation in geogrid and geocell design application.
COO – Projects and Sales
Strata tenure: 13 years
Total industry experience: 24 years
MBA – University of Gujarat
Leads the monetization of products and solutions while ensuring highest execution quality and project profitability.
COO – Technical Textiles
Strata tenure: 13 years
Total industry experience: 33 years
BE (Mechanical) – Nagpur University
Drives excellence in process design, product features and cost effectiveness in production.
CFO – Chief Financial Officer
Strata tenure: 8 years
Total industry experience: 35 years
CA – ICA, ICWA – ICWAI
Leads the finance, accounting, taxation, commercial, legal and IT functions and assisting on all strategic and operational matters.
CDO – Chief Development Officer
Strata tenure: 10 years
Total industry experience: 13 years
MBA – ISB, Hyderabad
Leads diversification of the product portfolio, monetizing the new products and ensuring successful sustained financial growth of the company top line.
CEO – Chief Executive Officer
Strata tenure: 14 years
Total industry experience: 42 years
B Tech (Chemical) – IIT Delhi
Leads day-to-day business operations of the company with focus on capacity expansion, product and process improvement.
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