Maccaferri gabions
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In the year 1893, in Casalecchio di Reno near Bologna, Italy, for the first time large amounts of wire mesh Maccaferri sack gabions were used to repair dams destroyed by a flood of the river Reno. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Maccaferri family purchased a patent for a new type of box gabion, so called Palvis (Gabbioni a scatola Palvis) and started the industrial production and introduction on a vast scale of gabions and mattresses for civil engineering use.
In 1911, Gaetano Maccaferri established business relationships in Spain, Greece and Austria. Before the second World War, a process of diversification started with acquisitions in various industrial fields, but the erosion control sector remained one of the core businesses up to today. This process has brought the Maccaferri technology and technical expertise to all countries of the world, with a direct presence in more than forty countries in all continents.[1]
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uk:Габіони- ↑ references/Gabion report, or, Some factors affecting the use of Maccaferri gabions and Reno-Mattresses for coastal revetments Author Brown, C. T, University of New South Wales, Water Research Laboratory, 1979. ISBN 0858242893
