July 2026 | time to read: 5 minutes

Bayerische Asphaltmischwerke (bam) has replaced its existing asphalt facility in Upper Palatinate, Bavaria with an ultra-modern Benninghoven plant featuring a lateral loading silo RPP 3000 Plus. With its integrated hot gas generator system, the asphalt mixing plant supports RAP recycling rates of up to 100% while simultaneously complying with operational emissions limits. The plant also enables the production of reduced-temperature asphalt by the addition of surface-active agents and the use of foam bitumen. Based on these resource-efficient solutions from Benninghoven, which can help reduce carbon emissions from asphalt production, bam is gearing up for future challenges at its Luhe-Wildenau site.

Formed in Munich in 1969, Bayerische Asphaltmischwerke GmbH & Co. KG für Straßenbaustoffe (bam) is one of Germany’s largest producers of asphalt. Operating from 5 branches and around 40 production facilities, bam manufactures high-quality asphalt products capable of meeting a wide range of customer requirements. The company actively pursues cost-effective, lower-emission, and resource-efficient solutions in asphalt mix production, cooperating with partners whose technology helps meet these goals.

Proven partnership

Bayerische Asphaltmischwerke and Benninghoven have teamed up since the 1980s – recently on projects in Würzburg-Fuchsstadt and Mühldorf-Mettenheim – and always with the goal of combining efficiency with an optimal use of resources. For the new asphalt mixing plant in Luhe-Wildenau, Benninghoven proposed an impressive solution that not only fulfilled bam’s high standards for quality but also took into account the height limits for the plant and the integration of existing plant sections.

Ready to meet any customer requirement

With its newly installed technologies, the company can look forward to a flexible future, and the ability to create a wide variety of products with optimum efficiency, precision, and process reliability. This product spectrum ranges from rolled asphalts in many different formulations to reduced-temperature asphalt. This versatility will ensure that bam can meet all of its customer requirements and use cases. This represents real economic value for the company: as a trusted road construction industry supplier, it needs to respond promptly to changing customer demands.

A focus on health and safety

Benninghoven asphalt mixing plants, which have an average service life of 30 years or more, are known not only for their high performance and quality, but also for putting employees’ needs at the forefront. It is they who each day ensure that customers are supplied promptly and reliably with the asphalt mix they require. The bam plant in Upper Palatinate is no exception: its ergonomic control concept and well-designed layout help ensure easy maintenance and good access to all components. The health and safety concept helps ensure safe work practices in day-to-day operations.