Wirtgen GmbH is set up by Reinhard Wirtgen

First hot milling machine for removing defective asphalt pavements is used in practice

Technological leap is made from hot milling to cold milling

Development of the first machine for open-cast mining, the surface miner

The development of a cold recycler heralds a new era in environmentally beneficial road repair

Wirtgen focuses on slipform pavers for concrete paving and sets up a separate product division

The new generation of small milling machines from Wirtgen, with nine machine types, is rounded off by the rear-loading machines W 60 and W 100 and the front-loading machines W 100 F, W 120 F and W 130 F

Presentation of the fundamentally new large milling machine W 150 with WIDRIVE machine control