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2004
BAI congratulates Dirk for ISI kitemark BAI congratulates Dirk for ISI kitemark, stressing the importance of quality assured flyash...
January 2004 The district of Nashik opts for the use of DIRK Pozzocrete as cement replacement A conference of all governmental agencies was organised at the Nashik District Commissioners head office in Nashik...
January 2004 The Maharashtra ready-mix industry relies on ISI approved POZZOCRETE The Ready-Mix Industry in Mumbai is rapidly expanding. Following the
worldwide experience the industry is improving the concrete quality...
December 2003 First Indian ISI kite mark for a Fly Ash product awarded to DIRK India (PVT) Ltd After approval of the laboratory testing facilities and a thorough check through the Indian Standard Institute DIRK India got the first Indian kite mark for a Fly Ash product....
October 2003 Prof. Ravindra Dhir O.B.E. lecture for Dirk India customers
Prof. Dhir gave four specific lectures during October at Mumbai and Pune/India to further encourage the use of Pozzocrete in concrete and to introduce...
September 2003 Thames Water installs Dirk IWE.tec ultrasound system Thames Water are to install a 24 kW Dirk IWE.tec part stream ultrasound system...
September 2003 IWE.tec Part-Stream Ultrasound at Entsorga in Germany Dirk Group Holdings will be at the IWE.tec booth in Germany at the Entsorga tradeshow. The tradeshow will take place from the 23rd -27th of September in Cologne.
August 2003 Nashik Kumbha Mela and Pooja at Pozzocrete Factory Dirk Group Holdings honoured guests at Hindu Kumbha Mela Celebrations
July 2003 DIRK concludes Ultrasound agency Agreement for Australia and New Zealand. Dirk Group Holdings has concluded an Agency agreement with Aquatec-Maxcon PTY LTD of Queensland Australia to represent the IWE.tec Part-Stream Ultrasound technology in Australia and New Zealand...
July 2003 First two full-scale part-stream ultrasound installations for Japan delivered. Dirk Group Holdings Ltd, the global sales company for IWE.tec, is pleased to announce the delivery of the first two full-scale part-stream ultrasound plants in Japan.
July 2003 Prof. Ravindra Dhir joins Dirk team as consultant. Prof. Ravindra Dhir, Director of the Concrete Technology Unit of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University Dundee, has accepted to consult DIRK India Private Ltd and its customers.
May 2003 Georg S. Dirk takes on new position On 1st May 2003 Georg Stephan Dirk was promoted to be the director for marketing of the Water Industry business of Dirk European Holdings Ltd.
May 2003 Peter Wilkinson retired per End of April 2003. Peter Wilkinson retires as director of Marketing and Operations of Dirk European Holdings Ltd and as director of Rhenipal Portugal Ltd on 3oth April 2003.
April 2003 UPDATE: POZZOCRETE™ - Ghatghar Dams Project in Maharashtra  Dirk India Private Ltd have won a supply agreement to provide more than 80,000 tons of POZZOCRETE™ to the Ghatghar Dams Project in Maharashtra.
March 2003 Mayor orders for Golden Quadrangle highway system received. VALECHA Engineering Ltd. (Mumbai) and S. B. G.Shirke, (Pune) and HCC signed contract with Dirk for the supply of DIRK Pozzocrete...
February 2003 New Member of Staff: Mukund Joshi Mukund Joshi has joined the DIRK India team...
January 2003 Upcoming conferences and exhibitions. We will be exhibiting at the following conferences...
January 2003 Lokmat Times: India has vast potential to transform fly ash into wealth. The chairman of DIRK Group gave an interview to Lokmat Times in Aurangabad/ Maharashtra, India on 20th January. The resulting article was headed: India has vast potential to transform fly ash into wealth.
January 2003 Dirk receives additional funding to support the rapid development of groundbreaking recycling technologies. Merseyside Special Investment Fund (MSIF), Liverpool, provided £ 500.000 additional funding for Dirk European Holdings Ltd. to support the rapid development of groundbreaking recycling technologies introduced by DIRK for the treatment of industrial and municipal by-product streams.
January 2003 Ultrasound conference and site visits in Germany Dirk European Ltd. is organizing a 4-day trip to Germany for engineers and specialists with an interest in ultrasound applications in wastewater treatment.....
December 2002 Dirk European Holdings Ltd receives ISO 14001 approval In our strive to be a recognised environmentally concerned organisation we have been awarded the approval of our management system to be in accordance with ISO 14001 on 20th December 2002.
December 2002 New Central Maintenance Workshop and Store for dewatering equipment At the start of 2003 DIRK will open its new central maintenance workshop and store for dewatering equipment. The facility is located in Birkenhead and can handle...
November 2002 Ultrasound Sewage Sludge Disintegration received high ranking reward On the annual meeting of the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (one of Germany’s partly governmentally funded] leading research institutions, the Joseph von Fraunhofer Preis was awarded...
September 2002 Ultrasound technology was signed between DIRK European Holdings Ltd and RDP Technologies Inc New groundbreaking technology for sewage sludge reduction, a contribution to the world climate issue.
October 2002 Sustainable Energy Expo 2002 on 22-24 October DIRK will be exhibiting its Ultrasound technology for sewage sludge
August 2002 Company summer parties in the UK and India Following a long tradition DIRK Group organised a summer party for it's staff and friends in the second half of August
Sept-November 2002 Aqua Enviro Conference and WEFTEC DIRK will participate in the AQUA-Enviro Conference in Wakefield....
May 2002 A NEW force in Ultrasound technologies for sewage sludge reduction DIRK have been developing over the past five years Ultrasound applications for the encapsulation of toxic substances and lately for sewage sludge reduction....
May 2002 KLEIN Abwasser und Schlammtechnik GmbH signed an exclusive sole importer agreement During IFAT 2002 KLEIN Abwasser und Schlammtechnik GmbH signed an exclusive sole importer agreement with DIRK for Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland....
May 2002 New Tecfil plant in production DIRK India has agreed exclusive contracts with a number of power generators for the extraction of floaters from Pulverized Fuel Ash....
April 2002 Secretary to the Chairman retires After 14 years of loyal service to the DIRK Group, Anita Heerwagen, Mr. Dirk's personal secretary retires in April 2002....
April 2002 DIRK India Private installs Cenosphere processing plant at Nashik Dirk India Private Limited has installed, at its Nashik ash recycling facility, a special processing unit for Cenospheres....
April 2002 DIRK appoint Senior Design Engineer Ian Starkey was appointed Senior Design Engineer to the ash processing division of Dirk European Holdings....
April 2002 DIRK win West of Scotland Water Authority Contract West of Scotland Water Authority awarded its framework agreement for the supply of centrifuges, belt presses, thickeners and chamber-presses to Dirk....
March 2002 DIRK exclusive sole importer and service provider for Flottweg centrifuges DIRK and FLOTTWEG announce a new alliance. Dirk European Holdings and Flottweg have combined forces....
December 2001 POZZOCRETE™-Ghatghar Dams Project in Maharashtra Dirk India Private Ltd have won a supply agreement to provide more than 80,000 tons of POZZOCRETE™ to the Ghatghar Dams Project in Maharashtra....
November 2001 DIRK among the first 100 UK recycling companies

DIRK European Holdings Ltd has been ranked to to be the 76th largest company in the UK Recycling Industry....

November 2001 INDIA 2001-New Delhi, Environment India Exhibition The organisers have postponed the above exhibition at which we were exhibiting until April 2002....
October 2001 ISO 9002 Certification for Pozzocrete production

The Pozzocrete production process was recently certified to meet the ISO 9002 quality management system 1994....

October 2001 Dirk European Holdings Ltd elected a member of the UK Quality Ash Association

DIRK European Holdings Ltd has been elected to become a member of the UK Quality Ash Association....

September 2001 Dirk Sponsors the 6th Aqua Enviro/CIWEM European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference DIRK will participate in AQUA-Enviro : 6th Aqua Enviro/CIWEM European Biosolids and Organic Residuals Conference in Wakefield (UK)....
August 2001 Contract with West Bengal Power Development Company The exchange of contracts for the recycling of the PFA from Kolaghat Thermal power station to Pozzocrete products....
July 2001 NEW PFA RESEARCH PROJECT FOR DIRK Fifoots Power Station is one of several power stations which has been retro-fitted with Flu Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) to remove the oxides of sulphur from the flu gases....
July 2001 Dirk Group helps Reforestation Dirk was represented in a delegation of ten UK companies organised by the British Government under the sponsorship of the Department of Trade and Industry to visit the three major centres of Bombay....
June 2001 Pozzocrete used on small construction jobs The Pozzocrete distributor at Nashik recently organised a technical seminar for local construction companies to advise them on the proper application of Pozzocrete
May 2001 New senior Appointment to the DIRK Team DIRK Group has appointed its new group sales manager for ash related products.
Gwyn Watkins joins the DIRK team....
March 2001 Nashik, Mumbai, Official Pozzocrete Distribution Centre Opening The mayor of Nashik officially opened the new Dirk Pozzocrete Distribution Centre on the Hindu new years day ‘Gudi Padva’....
March 2001 Dalmuir Sludge Solution Scotia Water awarded on 9th of October 2000 a contract for the interim dewatering, stabilisation and beneficial application of all sewage sludge from their new waste water treatment facility at Dalmuir to Dirk ....
March 2001 News from the Cement Replacement Symposium MUMBAI (Bombay) India The conference was attended by 400 delegates (State Officials, Technical Institutes, Universities, major construction companies, power generators from Maharashtra and other Indian states....
March 2001 Dewatering Unit at an NKK-site in Yokohama, Japan In September 2000 BioGenesis Enterprises (US) awarded Dirk European Holdings Limited a contract for the supply....
February 2001 Congratulations ! Manuela and Cameron Two members of the Dirk Team, Ms. Manuela Santos (Portuguese) secretary in the Birkenhead office and Mr. Cameron Brain (English) special project manager....
February 2001 Cement Replacement Symposium MUMBAI (Bombay) India Contact for the cd....
December 2000 Sludge Pasteurisation using the Dirk-RDP Rhenitherm Process at Girvan Dirk European Holdings Ltd., Birkenhead,  have recently won the order to supply an RDP Rhenitherm Pasteurisation System to provide Class A quality biosolids products at Girvan Wastewater Treatment Works....
October 2000 Agreement to Manufacture Cement Replacement out of Waste Coal Ash Mumbai, India, October 2000
A 30 year agreement was signed between the State Government and Dirk India Private Limited for the manufacture of Pozzocrete Cement Replacement from waste coal ash from the Nashik Thermal Power Station....
April 1999 Dirk delivers first of many mobile centrifuges to Anglian Water Services Ltd End of April DIRK European Holdings Ltd handed to Anglian Water Services Ltd the first mobile centrifuge from an order for several units Anglian Water purchased from Dirk....
February 1998 Dirk European Holdings Ltd a member of British Water British Water is the leading organisation representing the collective interests of the UK Water and Waste Water Industry both in the UK and overseas....