Construction of ground pneumatic piercing tools destined to pull cables and to ram steel pipes into a ground turned out successful venture and has been implemented into mass production. The first 4000 pieces   of the moles were produced by Zakłady Metalowe Przemysłu Terenowego in Gniezno and Zakłady Metalowe in Skarżysko. Most of them were exported to USA, Russia and Japan, where from 60’s and 70’s new construction improvements started. The extremely strong Russian competition brought to end of Polish production in half of 70’s.

These conditions remained until 1996 when production was resumed in Gdańsk. The well known company Terma Technologie manufacturer of the bathroom heaters and heat elements undertook that task. After the year of cooperation with “the old” Technical University of Gdańsk team has been made a prototype of the mole with 130 mm diameter. There has been made 6 more prototypes which passed the load and performance tests. Few years of development work have allowed to start manufacturing the piercing tools MAX type since 2001. Their abilities let them to be able to compete on the market. The MAX construction won many awards pointing out new quality trends. Our moles are equipped with innovative embed of the head, increased weight rams, perfect changing over the reverse gear (for each size of mole!) as well as optional data recorder. All these advantages cause that each MAX type tool is one of the strongest, the most accurate and functional in service on the market.

The history in TERMA
Since 1990 TERMA has been realizing many kinds of installation using trenchless technology. Based on the previous experience,  came the idea of production your own jacking machines. Considerable experience in performing installation using jacking machine caused that the ground rockets manufactured by TERMA, rapidly gained good opinion in the market.

The 2000 year - the first product MAX K130S. So far it is the most popular machine.

          The 2002 year - MAX K65

                     The 2003 year - MAX K75S

                                The 2008 year - MAX K180S

                                           The 2011 year - MAX K95S

                                                      The 2013 year - MAX K160S

                                                                  The 2016 year - MAX K55

                                                                           The 2017 year - MAX K75K

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The materials below are derived from resources of Technicale University of Gdańsk, Mechanical Department.