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ConExpo-Con/Agg

Wirtgen Group to display 41 machines at ConExpo-Con/Agg

Wirtgen Group will display 41 machines at ConExpo-Con/Agg in March. The company says most of the machines on display will be new i-series products — Tier 4 Interim-compliant equipment with intelligent technology. Wirtgen America’s 39,600-square-foot indoor stand will feature new asphalt pavers, concrete slipform pavers, cold mills, recyclers, asphalt and soil compactors and mobile crushers. […]

December 31, 2013

Roadbuilding

25 Days of RollOuts: Wirtgen’s concrete/asphalt milling drum

Wirtgen’s Hamm H251 VC combination concrete/asphalt milling drum with a vibrating roller – a.k.a. “crusher drum” – destroys material underfoot while on the move. Applications for the crusher drum include Applications for the crusher drum include breaking or pre-crushing rock, breaking up concrete, crushing and compacting mixed soils, compacting cohesive soils, compacting during cold recycling […]

December 26, 2013

Roadbuilding

25 Days of RollOuts: Wirtgen’s AutoPilot Field Rover eliminates stringlines

Wirtgen’s AutoPilot Field Rover, which won an innovation award at Bauma 2013, eliminates stringlines by using a GPS to guide paving machines instead. The device uses a computer integrated into the machine, GPS receivers mounted on the paver and a control panel. To create the stringline, the receivers communicate with GPS reference station, which measures […]

December 19, 2013

Roadbuilding

Wirtgen AutoPilot Field Rover eliminates stringlines

Wirtgen’s AutoPilot Field Rover, which won an innovation award at Bauma 2013, eliminates stringlines, using a GPS to guide paving machines instead, our sister site, Equipment World, reported. The device uses a computer integrated into the machine, GPS receivers mounted on the paver and a control panel. To create the stringline, the receivers communicate with […]

April 25, 2013

Gear

Wirtgen’s plug-and-play AutoPilot Field Rover eliminates stringlines

Last week, we told you about Wirtgen receiving an innovation award at the latest Bauma construction equipment show in Munich. We wrote in that post about why Bauma chose to give Wirtgen that award, but today we’ve got a bit more information about the product itself. Stringlines have been guiding paving machines for a long […]

April 25, 2013

Roadbuilding

Wirtgen’s AutoPilot Field Rover wins innovation award at Bauma 2013

Last week, our sister site, Equipment World, reported that Wirtgen was one of six innovation award winners at Bauma 2013. Wirtgen won for its “AutoPilot Field Rover” entry, which “accelerates the processes in road construction, saves costs and delivers higher quality.” The system collects measurement data and creates a “virtual stringline” that is downloaded to […]

April 22, 2013

Construction Equipment

Wirtgen wins a Bauma 2013 innovation award with “virtual stringlines” and the AutoPilot Field Rover

The Bauma construction equipment trade show, currently wrapping up in Munich, Germany has named its five innovations award winners for 2013. The show received 156 entries from  Germany and abroad” and narrowed the field to 15 before choosing six winners. Wirtgen was named as one of those award winners for its “AutoPilot Field Rover” entry for  succeeding […]

April 19, 2013

Roadbuilding

Wirtgen Group displays crusher drum technology in new Hamm H 25i compactor at Bauma 2013

Our sister site, Equipment World, reported today from Munich on Wirtgen’s newest technology, a combination of a concrete/asphalt milling drum with a vibrating roller that the company calls a “crusher drum.” The crusher drum, which is on display in the company’s new Hamm H 25i compactor at Bauma, destroys material underfoot while on the move. […]

April 15, 2013

Roadbuilding

Video Walkaround: Hamm HD 14 TT rubber tire roller at World of Asphalt 2013

While walking through the show floor here at World of Asphalt 2013 in San Antonio, we happened upon the Wirtgen Group booth and a new, small piece of equipment caught our eye. So, we asked Tim Kowalski, applications support manager for Wirtgen’s Hamm rollers to give us a video tour of the HD 14 TT. […]

March 19, 2013

Construction Equipment

Pre-Bauma 2013: Day 1 Impressions

I’m here in Munich at series of press conferences being referred to as “pre-Bauma” in a windy and cold city. The event is allowing equipment manufacturers to preview what they’ll be display and talking about at the big show in a couple of months. Come April some truly imaginative products, I mean really wonderful […]

January 29, 2013

Roadbuilding

Kleemann finishes new headquarters, state-of-art manufacturing facility

Kleemann GmbH has completed its new headquarters and state-of-the-art manufacturing plant near Göppingen, just east of Stuttgart in south-central Germany, and the new plant incorporates the highest production technologies for the manufacture of aggregates and minerals processing equipment. This new “greenfield” manufacturing plant is making Kleemann mineral processing equipment more available, and will speed product […]

April 9, 2010

Roadbuilding

Highway Contractor: RAP — Making new fans across the country

With workability,environmental benefits and solid performance reports, Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement — RAP — is becoming a bigger part of the mix.

February 1, 2010