Wirtgen Group Marks 50th Anniversary
February 9, 2012
In November,
Wirtgen America
celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Wirtgen Group.
In only five
decades, beginning November 1961, Wirtgen Group grew from a 20-year-old
proprietor with a single truck – hauling construction demolition materials – to
a staff of over 5,000 worldwide, overseeing a portfolio of Wirtgen Road
Technologies and Wirtgen Mineral Technologies products.
For example,
the high-performance soil stabilization, cold milling and recycling machines;
Vision Series, Super Series and SP Series pavers; soil and asphalt compactors;
and portable crushing and screening equipment from Wirtgen Group all are
uniquely suited to today’s applications. These may include base recycling and
site preparation, mill-and-overlay, fine milling, materials recycling, optimization
of RAP in mixes, low-energy or “cold” asphalt mixes, thin asphalt lifts,
spray-applied thin lifts, and compaction of difficult mixes.
In the early
1970s, founder Reinhard Wirtgen pioneered the removal of defective asphalt
pavements with his first hot milling machine, which allowed existing roads to
be rehabilitated much more economically. The next quantum leap followed with
the development of cold milling machines. Today, Wirtgen produces modern,
cost-efficient and eco-friendly stabilization, recycling and milling technology
to the benefit of traffic infrastructure worldwide.
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