BOMAG
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1957 |
| Seat | Boppard , Germany |
| Number of employees | approx. 2,200 |
| sales | EUR 700 million |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.bomag.com |
| Status: 2016 | |
Bomag (abbreviation for Bopparder Maschinenbaugesellschaft ) is a German company in the field of mechanical engineering . In particular, Bomag manufactures machines for soil , asphalt and garbage compaction as well as stabilizers / recyclers. The company is headquartered in Boppard in Rhineland-Palatinate . Since being taken over by the French Fayat Group in 2005, Bomag GmbH has also been offering asphalt pavers and cold milling machines .
In addition to its headquarters in Boppard, the company has five other regional branches in Germany with headquarters in Berlin , Chemnitz , Hanover , Munich and Stuttgart . In addition, the company currently has twelve subsidiaries that operate in Austria , Poland , France , Italy , the United Kingdom , Russia , Brazil , Canada , Singapore , the United States and the People's Republic of China . 500 dealers in over 120 countries ensure worldwide sales of Bomag products. Bomag itself employs a total of around 2,200 people, around 1,400 of them at the main location in Boppard. This makes the company one of the 30 largest employers in Rhineland-Palatinate.
history
Bomag was founded in 1957 by Karl Heinz Schwamborn in a double garage opposite the Boppard freight yard . In the same year a new construction for the compaction technology , the double vibratory roller BW 60 with all drum drive, was developed.
Three years later, the BW 200, the world's first 7 t double vibratory roller, was presented. In 1961, Bomag opened its first foreign branch in Austria, which was followed by branches in China, the USA, France, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and Hungary by 2002. When the company premises at the headquarters in Boppard were no longer sufficient, the company relocated to its present location in 1969, the Hellerwald industrial area near the Buchholz district. In 1970 Karl Heinz Schwamborn sold his company to the US company Koehring in Milwaukee .
Six years later, the largest research and development center for compaction technology that currently exists was built at the new location. In 1982, BOMAG expanded the company by 7,000 m² of floor space for mechanical production and steel construction ; four years later, another 10,000 m² area was built on for the assembly, testing and painting of large machines. In 1997 Bomag built a new powder coating plant for coloring and expanded the company premises the following year by another 9,000 m².
In 1988 Bomag presented the first fully hydraulic garbage compactor . Asphalt Manager followed three years later, a system for automatic regulation of compaction and simultaneous compaction control.
Koehring sold his shares in Bomag in 2001 to the US SPX Corporation , which in turn sold the company to the French group Fayat in 2005 .
In 2011 Bomag acquired 90,000 square meters of the Hellerwald II industrial park in order to expand the production area in Hellerwald I again. The company invested € 21.5 million - the largest single investment in the history of Bomag - in the construction of a state-of-the-art drum factory, which was built within 12 months and put into operation at the end of June 2013.
Products
In total, Bomag offers more than 20 product groups with numerous product variations from the following categories:
- Compaction (rammers, vibratory plates, vibratory rollers, multi-purpose compactors)
- Asphalt construction (tandem rollers, combination rollers, pneumatic tire rollers, road pavers)
- Earthworks (single drum rollers, soil compactors)
- Recycling and stabilization (cold milling machines, cold recyclers, soil stabilizers)
- Waste treatment (waste compactor)
Single drum roller BW 213 DH-4
Asphalt paver BF 600C
Articulated combination roller BW 151 AC with asphalt manager 1
Vibration plate
Soil stabilizer MPH 121
Cold milling machine MP 1300
Locations
| Brazil | Cachoerinha | Assembly plant |
| People's Republic of China | Fengxian | Production of heavy compactors and heavy tandem rollers for the Chinese market |
| People's Republic of China | Hong Kong | distribution |
| Germany | Boppard | Headquarters; world's largest research and development center for compaction technology |
| France | Viry-Chatillon | distribution |
| Great Britain | Kent | distribution |
| Italy | Alfonsine | Production of road pavers |
| Canada | Ontario | distribution |
| Austria | Vienna | distribution |
| Poland | Warsaw | distribution |
| Russia | Khimki | distribution |
| Singapore | Singapore | distribution |
| United States | Ridgeway | Service center, assembly plant and spare parts warehouse |
Trade fairs and exhibitions
Bomag regularly presents its innovations at the trade fair for construction machinery (Bauma) , which takes place every three years . One year after the company was founded, Bomag was already represented at Bauma 1958 with the very first Bomag machine, the hand-operated Bomag double vibration roller BW 60. Since then, the company has been present at every Bauma and every major Bomag innovation was also presented at Bauma .
In the last 20 years, for example: In 1992 the BW 80 AD, a light tandem roller in which the operator's seat on the front frame was replaced by the seat on the rear frame. This became the standard for all manufacturers worldwide over the next few years. The BW 100 and BW 120 tandem rollers came for the first time with a vibration-insulated driver's cab. For the single drum rollers, the PDH single drum rollers that can climb up to 50% were presented. The large reversible vibratory plate BPR 75/60 D was also presented.
In 1995, the BCM, Bomag Compaction Measurement, was presented at bauma, a measurement system for large-scale projects based on the Terrameter introduced in 1982. The Terrameter was a measuring system that made it possible to control the compaction quality of the soil during work. For the first time, building contractors knew when the soil under the machines was optimally compacted and when further transitions with the machines were unnecessary. It was the first system of its kind in the world.
Variocontrol for single drum rollers followed at bauma 1998. This made it possible to automatically adapt the compaction energy to the state of compaction and deformation of the respective soil. Bomag Asphalt Manager followed at bauma 2001, with which the compaction of asphalt could not only be automatically controlled but also measured. The new small single drum rollers BW 124 and BW 145 as well as the heavy garbage compactor BC 972 were also presented in 2001.
In 2004 the tandem rollers BW 100/120 AD and the combination rollers 100/120 AC were technically revised, a new generation of reversible vibration plates came onto the market, as well as new heavy tandem rollers of the type BW 141/151 AD and a new generation of pivot-steered rollers.
In addition to important trade fairs, Bomag also uses its own company events to present their product portfolio and innovations to international customers. At the beginning of September 2013 the "Asphalt Days" took place for the second time at the main location in Boppard. During the six-day customer event, Bomag GmbH presented its latest generation of road pavers, the BF 600-2 and BF 700-2.
Prizes and awards
After 2008, Bomag was also voted one of the 100 most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany in 2010 and received the “Top 100” seal of approval for its extensive basic research. In 2013 Bomag won a design award, the Red Dot Design Award (honorable mention), for the articulated tandem roller BW 141 AD. In the same year, the cooperation between the construction machinery manufacturer and the technology company Human Solutions was awarded the EuroTest Prize for the successful use of the Ramsis ISO 5006 visual validation software at bauma.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bomag 60 Years , at www.bauforum24.biz , accessed on April 15, 2017
- ↑ bomag.com
- ↑ Wirtschaftsgeschichte-rlp.de
- ↑ IHK Rhein-Hessen: The largest employers in Rhineland-Palatinate , accessed on June 4, 2018
- ^ A b c Karl Friedrich Capitain: Industry and Commerce . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. Third volume . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 2001, ISBN 3-930051-02-8 , pp. 279-282 .
- ↑ BOMAG GmbH - display instead of feeling. Archived from the original ; accessed on May 12, 2014 .
- ↑ prnewswire.com ( Memento of May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ bi-baumagazin.de
- ↑ Allgemeinebauzeitung.de ( Memento from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ bomag.com
- ↑ red-dot.de
- ↑ this-magazin.de