“Innovation by passion”: Fifth technological days of the Group Wirtgen

The customers of more than 80 countries –from the Cape North until the City of the Cape, from Alberta until Earth of the Fire, from Siberia until Sidney– travelled to Ludwigshafen to see machines and new products and find with the people with power of decision of the companies constructors of all the continents.

Besides, took advantage of the opportunity to visit the plant of manufacture of extendedoras of Joseph Vögele AG. In a visit guided by the factory in full production, saw the machines of high technology, the cradle of the slats of támper, the rules and sheets alisadoras and went through the ship of setting synchronised and the ecological installation of coating pulvimetalúrgico.

From the terminación of the plant of Vögele, Wirtgen Group manufactures all the range of products, composed of 137 machines with 438 different models and 6.157 optional teams in four centres of production ultramodernos. “In the plants of high technology, situated in Germany, can design and manufacture the products of quality that the market demands”, signal the partners administrators, Jürgen Wirtgen and Stefan Wirtgen.

The 50 anniversary is an important milestone in the business development. The exhibition '50 years of Wirtgen' illustrated the dynamic evolution from the company unipersonal of then until the Wirtgen Group, that today day has a staff of 5.000 employees. The photographies and the quoted texts did to feel the essence of Wirtgen: the idea of the provision of service, the afán to offer continuously innovative technical solutions and the passion by the machines for works viales.

In the 'Wirtgen Group Avenue', the companies presented the most modern technologies for the widespread of roads and the extraction of rock: the fresadora in cold W 220 of high technology, the autopiloto of the extendedora of formwork deslizante of Wirtgen, the alimentadora MT 3000-2 Offset of Vögele, the new compactadores vibratory H 20i and H 18i of Hamm or the crushers of Kleemann with technology EVO.

The machines “i” were the big attraction. The abbreviation designates the innovations of the Wirtgen Group with futuristic engines Tier IV. This technology and the technical reports of the bosses of the departments of design of the four marks corroborated once again that the Wirtgen Group confronts to the challenges and develops modern solutions and of high quality.

As it signalled in this meeting, “the passion by the roads is the engine of innovations of the employees of the Wirtgen Group”. This feels clearly in the service, as –as it comments Stefan Wirtgen– “of the provision of services formed the roots of the company. And it is thus that know the needs of our customers”. The utensilios related with the service to the customer, exposed in the central part of the exhibition of machines, underline this affirmation.

Also the live demonstrations put of self-evident this passion. Of professional and nice way, the experts of plant them matrices presented his machines and technologies for the production of layers of base, the widespread with compactación back of the asphalt as well as for the saneamiento of roads and the recovery of the materials of construction.

To the equal that in the design, the service and the advice of applications, the experts of the distinct plants also worked hand manually in the presentation. Jürgen Wirtgen resumió what joins them: “The will to create integral solutions that cover all the marks and that allow to our customers work successfully in any place of the world.”