Wirtgen GmbH

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WIRTGEN GmbH

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founding 1961
Seat Windhagen , Germany
management
  • Frank G. Betzelt
  • Dr. Günter Hähn
  • Reimund Felderhoff
Number of employees 2,000 (2019)
sales around EUR 600 million (2015)
Branch mechanical engineering
Website www.wirtgen.de

WIRTGEN GmbH is a company in the road construction sector . More than 2,000 people are employed at the main plant in Windhagen in northern Rhineland-Palatinate , around 30 kilometers south of Bonn . More than 60 machine types including road milling machines , recycling devices , slipform pavers, soil stabilizers and surface miners are manufactured in the main plant. The company is part of the Wirtgen Group , an international group of companies in the construction machinery industry, also based in Windhagen. As part of the Wirtgen Group, the company belongs to the US agricultural and construction machinery group Deere & Company .

Windhagen, Wirtgen company, directly on the A3

history

The company was founded in 1961 by Reinhard Wirtgen, then 20, in Windhagen, initially as a transport company for building materials. The first concrete smashing device was built as early as the 1960s, followed by the development of the first hot milling machine for removing damaged asphalt surfaces. In the mid-1970s, more than 100 Wirtgen machines were in use across Europe. The next development was a hot recycler for reprofiling deformed road surfaces by reusing the milled material. Cold milling machines were developed from this at the end of the 1970s .

Subsidiaries were established across Europe as early as the mid-1970s, and a global dealer network was created in the 1980s. In the 1990s, the service sector was spun off and the company focused on the design, manufacture and sale of construction machinery.

Products

The object of the company is the development, manufacture and sale of road construction and repair machines. More than 60 machine types are produced, which are divided into the following product groups:

Web links

Commons : Wirtgen GmbH  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Record sales in the anniversary year: “Staying on a growth path and staying true to our principles”, at www.baumagazin.eu. Accessed on December 27, 2014
  2. a b WIRTGEN - world leader in milling technology. In: www.wirtgen.de. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  3. ^ Location Windhagen - The Wirtgen parent plant - Wirtgen GmbH. In: www.wirtgen.de. Retrieved August 4, 2016 .
  4. a b Wirtgen ?? Evolution of milling technology in two pictures: one wah. In: www.this-magazin.de. September 26, 2009, accessed on August 4, 2016 (German).
  5. Wirtgen: Concrete paving to perfection. In: www.this-magazin.de. April 8, 2016, accessed on August 4, 2016 (German).
  6. Wirtgen will be showing complete series of cold milling machines at Bauma 2016. (No longer available online.) In: bau-info.eu. January 25, 2016, archived from the original on August 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 4, 2016 .