The main VÖGELE production facility

Quality starts here

To pave high-quality roads efficiently and economically, you need specialized, reliable machines. Our main production facility in Ludwigshafen am Rhein aims to satisfy precisely these requirements: specialists develop and manufacture 31 different types of machine and 12 types of screed in the most modern production facility for road pavers in the world, with over 1,200 skilled employees, intelligent production systems and an efficient factory design guaranteeing optimum processes.

370,000 m²

Area of site

100,000 m²

Covered area

2,900 m²

Training area

Quality means accuracy
  • Did you know, for example, that we use special honing machines to eliminate microscopic irregularities up to 20 times finer than a human hair?
  • ... that the assembly of a VÖGELE paver involves over 500 test points?
  • ... that our digital employee information system provides support for each individual production step to prevent staff making errors?
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Intelligent production technologies

The aim of our production is to provide customers with perfect, customized machines and spare parts and to keep delivery times as short as possible in the process. In order to satisfy efficiently an intense demand for road pavers, PowerFeeders and screeds, we continuously invest in intelligent production systems and automated processes. This allows us to increase our capacity, avoid mistakes consistently and make processes leaner, with particular attention being paid to screed production.

Screed production technology
Specialized employees

Our employees are experts – their commitment, skill and customer focus ensure the success of our products every day. They are passionate about road construction and guarantee our high quality, which is why we give a high priority to our in-house basic and further training courses, to exciting development potential and to a motivational working environment. Visit our Careers page for more information about joining the company and about current vacancies.

VÖGELE as employer
Sustainable production facility concept
  • Replacing wet-painting with solvent-free powder coating means low emissions
  • Production halls are heated with waste heat
  • High-speed shutters with minimal opening times save heating energy
  • An efficient block-type thermal power station minimizes CO₂ emissions when generating the necessary process heat
  • Extraction systems have energy-saving valves and frequency inverters
  • Waste water is conditioned biologically without chemical additives
  • Surface water drains away on site
  • Modern lighting concepts and control systems
  • Intelligent ventilation management: automatically switched off when office windows are opened
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Products

The VÖGELE product range includes the right road paver for every application, screeds with innovative precision engineering and VÖGELE PowerFeeders which deliver pure power for large-scale construction sites. Yet there are suitable solutions for digital road construction too.

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Technologies

We make our customers successful with our innovative machines. We are not interested in engineering achievements purely for their own sake – it is important to us to turn these achievements into solutions for our customers. This is what makes us the number one in road pavers.

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