Joseph Vögele
| Joseph Vögele AG
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1836 |
| Seat | Ludwigshafen am Rhein , Germany |
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| Number of employees | 800 ( 2011 ) |
| sales | EUR 320 million ( 2006 ) |
| Branch | mechanical engineering |
| Website | www.voegele.info |
The Joseph Vögele AG is an engineering company based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . The company is an international company in the field of road and path construction . The main focus of production is the construction of road pavers . As part of the Wirtgen Group , the company belongs to the US agricultural and construction machinery group Deere & Company .
Products
The focus of production is on road pavers, which are manufactured as machines with wheel or caterpillar drives. The product range includes the mini class pavers for paving pedestrian and rural roads, the compact class and universal class pavers for paving roads of up to 10 meters and the highway class for projects such as highways and airports. The largest model, the SUPER 3000-2, has a maximum pave width of 16 meters and can process up to 1,600 tons per hour. The maximum thickness of the road surface is 50 cm here.
Which also produced feeder series Power Feeder transport the required material into the paver. The paving screeds produced, which are attached to the rear end of the pavers, apply the paved road surface such as asphalt or concrete with the appropriate profile and thickness. The interaction between the various machines of the feeder and the road paver is also referred to as a paving train .
With the introduction of the "Dash 3" generation in 2012, not only was the ergonomic operating concept further optimized, but fundamental changes were also made to the machine design. This led to the win of the industrial design competition iF Award in 2013 for the SUPER 1900-3 machine . This was already awarded in 2007 for the previous SUPER 1900-2 model . In 2009 the products of the VISION series won the award.
Road paver
The current product range for road pavers from Joseph Vögele AG is divided into the SUPER series and the VISION product series especially for the North American and Australian markets. In the product name, the number after the hyphen stands for the machine generation (pronounced: "Dash 3") and the last digit of the first number for the number of axles ("0" for caterpillar drive, "3" for three-axle wheel drive).
Feeder
The feeders under the name PowerFeeder are used on larger construction sites to increase profitability (through a continuous flow of material and thus less downtime), but can also be used for special purposes; For example, when building auxiliary roads parallel to the roadway, loading can be carried out using a swiveling conveyor belt.
Screeds
The screed (also often just called screed) are hung on the back of the paver and, when driving over the material to be paved, ensure the appropriate paving result through equipment-dependent measures. The Joseph Vögele AG offers two basic forms of the screed to: the Extending which may change as a hydraulic work width and stare planks which can be widened with fixed modules.
history
The company was founded in Mannheim in 1836 by the blacksmith Joseph Vögele . It established itself as a supplier to the railways ; a year earlier, the first German railroad had run from Nuremberg to Fürth. Together with the rail network, the company grew and supplied switches , transfer platforms , turntables and shunting systems .
1925 began to shift the focus of the product range to road construction. The first concrete paving trains, soil stabilizers and asphalt pavers were constructed. With the rapid increase in road traffic, this division quickly became the most important in the company. After the Second World War, Vögele took over the lubrication pump division from Bosch . The plant built for this purpose in Hockenheim in 1960 was sold to Willy Vogel AG in 1999.
In 1996 the Wirtgen Group took over the majority in Joseph Vögele AG. The last shareholders who still held 1.75 percent of the shares were compensated in a squeeze-out in 2002 and the stock market listing of the shares was discontinued. In 2004 the production of the smallest paver in the program, which had previously been outsourced to Slovenia, was brought back to Mannheim. In 2006 about 800 employees generated sales of 320 million euros. In 2010 the company was relocated from Mannheim-Neckarau to Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim .
Picture gallery
An asphalt paver type SUPER 1600-2 with caterpillar drive in Dusseldorf (2013)
Asphalt paver type SUPER 1800-3i (2017)
Asphalt paver type SUPER 1800-3i (2017)
Rear view
View of the driver's seat
literature
- Andreas Gößner: The machine factory Joseph Vögele AG . In: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter - remmagazin 17/2009 . Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89735-595-8 .
Web links
- Website of Joseph Vögele AG
- Early documents and newspaper articles on Joseph Vögele in the 20th Century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert Gieseler: Kraft- und Dampfmaschinen , accessed on November 23, 2012
