Newly developed products and technologies, exciting applications on job sites around the globe, worldwide trade shows — discover what is currently happening in the world of the WIRTGEN GROUP.
MC 110 Z EVO Recycling of building rubble in Göppingen
A Mobicat jaw crusher processes concrete and building rubble in Stauferpark in Göppingen. Approx. 4,500 tons of material with a feed size of 0-500 mm are crushed to 0-60 mm and are used again on site as filling material.
An independent contract crushing company is using its new KLEEMANN mobile jaw and cone crushers – flanking a new mobile screen – to boost aggregate processing productivity while saving money on fuel.
Rehabilitating the A93 motorway at Marktredwitz, Bavaria: the SUPER 3000-3i tracked paver demonstrated its astounding qualities, accurately paving a surface 11.6 m wide.
Manufactured by the WIRTGEN GROUP in India, to be precise in the local production and assembly plant in Pune, the mobile screening plants in the MOBISCREEN EVO line are successful all over the world.
New TBA 4000 in Moscow: the transportable asphalt mixing plant from BENNINGHOVEN supplies premium asphalt for both road rehabilitation projects on greater Moscow’s MKAD Outer Ring Road and for new roads.
Three BENNINGHOVEN asphalt mixing plants in Romania
BENNINGHOVEN technology – the engine for Romania’s infrastructure. Three asphalt manufacturers have invested in state-of-the-art technology from BENNINGHOVEN in Romania.
In the north of Vietnam lie the emerging city of Lang Son, located on the border with China, and National Route 1A, the heavily congested motorway to the capital, Hanoi: a KLEEMANN plant combination was brought in to eliminate this bottleneck.
Allowing for high production outputs and varied recipes were important criteria from the customer Bitux S.p.A. for the new asphalt mixing plant in Foglizzo, outside Turin in the Piedmont region.
When paired with the AB 220 TV Extending Screed, it can take on a remarkably wide range of pave widths from 0.5 to 3.5 m and even pave entire roads. These features make the SUPER 800i ideal for achieving a high level of machine utilization.
WIRTGEN GROUP provides Asfaltbolaget with a complete crushing and screening plant train from KLEEMANN
Asfaltbolaget, with its head office in Karlskrona, is a Swedish asphalt, road and landscape construction company. After all of their positive experience with WIRTGEN GROUP, it stood to reason to include crushing and screening plants from KLEEMANN in their short-list.
A VÖGELE road paver with the WITOS Paving Plus process management system and HAMM rollers with the WITOS HCQ module participated in a QSBW 4.0 construction project.
High quality at low cost and a reliable assistant to hand – for milling machine operators, WIRTGEN’s new large milling machines are the ultimate in road rehabilitation.
A SUPER 1303-3i repaved the surface course on a 3.1 m-wide tree-lined route at a thickness of 3 cm. The new pavement of sand-coloured asphalt blends harmoniously into the landscape. The VÖGELE wheeled paver in the Compact Class paved the coloured asphalt with a crown of +2.5%.
As early as during one of its first jobs – rehabilitating a section of the A96 motorway near Munich – the SUPER 3000-3i from VÖGELE was able to give a hint of the feats it was capable of.
The MOBIREX MR 110 Z EVO2 impresses in changing applications
The change between demolished concrete and broken bricks in the Fireclay recycling yard of Mone Bros. Ltd. is child's play for the powerful impact crusher MR 110 Z EVO2.
In Luxembourg, the construction company Cajot invested in the largest mixed material loading silo that BENNINGHOVEN has ever built as a retrofit solution.
A fleet of six Wirtgen cold milling machines removed tens of thousands of tons of old asphalt at Oakland International Airport in California in less than 60 hours.
WIRTGEN W 150 CFi: Greater productivity and area output
Wirtgen’s W 150 CFi compact milling machine with new 1,800 mm milling drum assembly is the ideal machine for surface layer rehabilitation on small to medium-sized job sites.
W 200 rehabilitates Brazil´s congested road network
Using the state-of-the-art WIDRIVE machine control system, a milling machine operator reduces fuel consumption and noise emissions during rehabilitation work in the Brazilian highlands.
Millimeter accuracy is paramount on a track where every thousandth of a second counts, which is why, when it was time to rehabilitate the pavement, the client took the opportunity to re-profile the track, too.
Expansion of the Berlin ring road: when widening the trans-European motorway, the team frequently had to move between many small job site sections. AutoSet Plus, the automatic functions of the SUPER pavers, provided invaluable support for the paving team.
Teamwork: Wirtgen Group Machines prepared the ground for the new Benninghoven brand headquarters
Benninghoven: Wirtgen soil stabilizers and Hamm rollers laid the solid foundation for the state-of-the-art asphalt mixing plant facility in Wittlich-Wengerohr.
Swiss company Recytec continues investing in Kleemann plants
Recytec from Switzerland specialises in the processing of waste materials and materials in the recyclable mineral chain. Recytec has now extended its vehicle fleet and is participating in work on the tunnel construction project on the A1.
It was no longer economically viable to put the existing stationary plant back into operation. The Polish company Dolata therefore decided on a plant train from KLEEMANN.
A new asphalt mixing plant TBA 2000 with a 2 t mixer and a dual fuel burner with bitumen vapour afterburning in operation at customer Hitthaller+Trixl Bauges. m.b.H., Austria.
Technologies from VÖGELE deliver perfect evenness: when resurfacing the A36 motorway near Dijon, a new SUPER 1900-3i paver equipped with an SB 250 TV Fixed-Width Screed and supported by an MT 3000-2i Standard PowerFeeder produced high quality results across a pave width of 7.5 m.
The power of the WIRTGEN GROUP as the engine driving the construction of the İstanbul Yeni Havalimanı airport – the largest infrastructure project in the history of Turkey.
During rehabilitation work near Tokyo, a W 210 large milling machine removed the surface and binder courses on the Jōban Expressway in individual layers.
During a construction job in South Africa, it was scientifically proven by the University of Twente that the MT 3000-2 Offset PowerFeeder improves paving quality – among other things, using RoadScan, the innovative temperature measurement system from VÖGELE.
A 4200 SM mines hard coal in an open-cast mine in Eagle Pass, Texas. The mined coal is transported by trains across the border to a power station in Coahuila.
An overnight OPA job – WIRTGEN GROUP technologies pump up the speed
On the A1 highway, Wirtgen Group machines were used to cost-effectively pave thin layers hot and for fine milling – completing the project in just 42 nights instead of the scheduled 55.
High performance in a compact format – the MC 100 R EVO in recycling operation
Compact, easy to transport and flexibility of use should characterise the new crushing plant for the demolition and recycling company Wohlfarth Baggerbetrieb.
Coloured asphalt surfaces in Baden-Baden meet the same quality requirements as black asphalt surfaces – thanks to machine technology from VÖGELE and HAMM.
At Eindhoven Airport, the Dutch construction company BAM Infra bv compacted the surface course of the 3 kilometre long and 45 metre wide runway using 25 rollers from HAMM.
Because of the dry desert winds, the work can only be carried out at night – and only for three to four months in the summer: the largest WIRTGEN slipform paver, the SP 1600, and the flexible SP 500 bring all their skills into play when paving concrete at the New Ulaanbaatar International Airport.
At London Heathrow Airport’s new Terminal 5, the most important condition for earthworks was that the binding agents be dust-free and worked into the foundation soil.
Thanks to the mobile combination of plants from KLEEMANN, up to 600 tons of iron ore are processed per hour in the "Ridges Iron Ore Project" in the Kimberley region.
Quickly constructing one and a half kilometers of bridge parapets just before the end of the construction season? Quickly completed without stringlines using the SP 15i and AutoPilot.
Solution and application expertise from a single source: Wirtgen Group machines stabilize the soil at the exhibition grounds of Germany’s 2019 national garden show.
In 2001, conventional “drilling and blasting” was regarded as the most important extraction method in the West African country. Today, however, bauxite mining is carried out exclusively using Wirtgen’s surface miners, which are more cost-effective, safer, and more environmentally friendly.
Flexible in Recycling with the MOBICAT MC 100 R EVO
To ensure fast arrival at work sites for recycling projects, Freimuth Abbruch und Recycling GmbH decided on the acquisition of a MOBICAT MC 100 R EVO from KLEEMANN.
Clearing the way - Routing with Wirtgen Surface Miners to clear the way in rocky terrain
Wirtgen surface miners can do far more than just mine minerals. During the construction of the Chisholm Trail Parkway, they reliably chewed their way through hard rock.
Precision in concrete paving with the WIRTGEN slipform pavers SP 1500 and SP 1500 L
For the expansion of the A9 highway, a construction company relied on the high bearing capacity of concrete slabs and the perfect evenness and grip of the road surface.
Over the course of two summers, an artificial reservoir was constructed in the Ötztal Alps. The 3520 HT compactor made a decisive contribution here to the successful construction of a lake basin.
In-place cold recycling of bituminous materials was carried out during a project in Illinois. For this purpose, the contractor selected the 2200 CR recycler with a working width of 3.80 m.
The taxiways, runways, apron, and the south runway at the airport cover a total of 1.5 million square meters. Paving was carried out by Wirtgen slipform pavers.
Hamm AG’s facility expansion project was a massive undertaking. The company needed to prepare an area measuring 150,000 m² and move 350,000 m³ of earth.
Autostrada A1 – Europe's largest construction project
To build the A1 motorway in Poland as efficiently as possible, machines from the Wirtgen Group were almost the only equipment used during paving and compaction, including several HAMM compactors and tandem rollers.
Three Wirtgen surface miners are currently being operated by Mineração Paragominas in the Pará region, replacing the previously used, conventional mining method.
The blessing of the Caribeean – Dominican Republic
20 Wirtgen Group machines are constructing the new roadways for the extension of the 70 km long section of the “Autopista Del Coral” in the Dominican Republic.
Tight corners, high-speed straights, and a section that twists through a luxury hotel. Wirtgen Group machines were in pole position at the Yas Marina Circuit.
The 2 km long runway at Tromsø Airport (Norway) was rehabilitated at night because the airport had to remain in operation during the short Arctic summer.
The Xibao Expressway is one of the most important highways in China. Every day it has to endure 30% heavy-duty vehicle traffic. It was rehabilitated via in-plant cold recycling.
1.6 million tons of asphalt for Europe´s largest construction project
Because heavy goods traffic is set to grow to enormous proportions, the A1 highway needed a road surface designed to withstand heavy loads. A 20 cm thick gravel layer serves as frost protection.
The A1 highway in Poland received a particularly robust road bed. The first step was creating a stabilized sub-base 50 cm thick that that was compacted with padfoot drums.
The world’s best drivers battled for the championship title at the Race of Champions in Wembley. Wirtgen Group machines paved the racetrack with asphalt surfacing.
When the courtyard in front of the Church of the Assumption was redesigned, oscillation from Hamm proved to be the only compaction technology that could be used.
The road on Mount Lee exhibited craze cracks, also known as “alligator cracks.” The city of Los Angeles opted to use cold recycling for the rehabilitation.
Six slipform pavers rebuild Europe’s largest construction site.
The Inn Canal was Europe’s largest construction site in the 1920s. During rehabilitation of the canal, state-of-the-art slipforming technology was used.