Bolina helps improve operations at Montefurado Hydroelectric Power Plant in Galicia, Spain, through the successful deployment of its LSB600 booms to prevent build up of debris on one side of the dam.
In an effort to improve the water quality of Europe’s rivers, Bolina, now an Ecocoast company, has engineered the longest floating debris boom to remove plastic and other floating debris from the tidal river of Scheldt in Belgium. The river barrier funnels 218kg a day into the plastic catcher, removing 7 tonnes of debris and human pollutants a month from the river.
Learn how our Bolina Log Screen Boom LSB600 is helping to protect the Cahora Bassa Hydropower Plant in Mozambique.
In this blog post, we explain why debris booms are essential for clean waterbodies, highlighting the capabilities of our ranges of Permanent Debris Booms and Modular Debris Booms.
Discover how Bolina booms help protect biodiversity on the River Bure in the United Kingdom with the PDB600.
The engineering team behind the project tells us how Ximeca, our French partner, utilises a Bolina boom on an electricity plant project in Corsica.
Learn how Bolina's Permanent Debris Boom PDB600 is helping to keep the waterways in Norland, Canada, clear of debris.
The Ocean Cleanup uses our Litter Fence Boom (LFB600) to guide floating debris into their new invention, an autonomous system for preventing the unrelenting flow of plastic pollution into the world’s oceans. We have been Project Partners, working with The Ocean Cleanup since 2016, and are very proud to be part of this project!
A houseboat crashed into Bolina Safety Booms after boaters lost control of it on the River Nene in Northamptonshire, the UK.
Following a condition survey in 2010, the Environment Agency decided to rebuild Molesey Weir, which is located immediately south of Ash Island on the River Thames. Bolina Booms designed, supplied and delivered Rope Safety Booms (RSB1150) complete with their associated fittings.
Bolina Booms protects a critical flood control structure from damage by debris, reports BetterWorldSolutions.eu.
This Bolina Boom was installed over 20 years ago in the River Trent, the third-longest river in the United Kingdom. Like our other booms, it has been completely maintenance-free ever since.
Two anglers in small boats have been filmed dangerously close to a giant plug hole at a reservoir. Bolina Booms has been providing protection at similar sites.
Bolina Booms has provided a boom in Annecy, France, to save chicks from drowning.
Bolina Booms created a harbour security zone to protect G20 summit in Hamburg.
210m of our TCB600 boom was used to zone off Able UK’s dock for arrival of the 24,000 ton Brent Delta platform – see video.
BBC news footage shows Bolina Booms riding out the severe 2014 storms. Even during these extreme flood conditions with record flow in rivers, our booms performed without incident. Watch the BBC news report to know more.
Bolina booms survive a bashing! Our booms have been in service without maintenance for 15 years. This video should show you why...
2014 has produced some of the most severe storms to hit the UK with record water levels in rivers. Bolina has installed many booms along rivers affected by flooding and here are some amateur films that show the booms in action.
Following a thorough selection process, Bolina Booms was chosen to protect the Olympic Park throughout the construction phase by closing off the network of waterways in and around the site with floating barriers.
The NATO Heads of State and Government and the NATO Secretary General participated in a ceremony on the Rhine river, honouring the NATO Military Personnel for their service in the operational theatres of the Alliance - more than 70.000 men and women. Bolina Booms were used to close off the Rhine to river traffic.
