Engineered to meet the needs of utilities and construction companies and their contractors, the GPR system accurately and swiftly pinpoints most types of obstacles underground, including plastic pipes and fibre-optic cables. Part of the US-based SPX Group, Radiodetection is a leading manufacturer and supplier of pipeline-locating and -inspection equipment. The company sees the addition of PipeHawk’s GPR technology as complementary to its existing product portfolio, which includes a comprehensive range of location systems, leak-detection and -evaluation devices, CCTV inspection systems, flow- and pressure-management tools, and cleaning machines. GPR can significantly reduce or eliminate the need for physical trial holes, a boon in minimizing disruption in densely-populated urban areas and busy commercial centres such as in central Hong Kong. ,ALTON-based specialist in ground-probing radar (GPR) PipeHawk plc has reached an agreement with Radiodetection (China) Ltd to become a distributor for its market-leading PipeHawk II GPR system throughout China and Hong Kong.