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SPOTLIGHT
ROAD & ROAD CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

in our industry in terms of both their form required. Such applications save a lot of time maintains constant ground contact for
and their scale,” says Roland Schug, Head of and money – while also enabling precise particularly speedy compaction.
Marketing at JOSEPH VÖGELE AG, who implementation and high quality.
has overall responsibility for this year’s Road uality creates quality
Technology Days. Intelligent solutions for road construction Apart from presenting cutting-edge
Specialist talks by selected experts and technologies, machinery and a sector
Digital measurement and control technology exhibitions also gave visitors outlook, the Road Technology Days also
Modern road construction demands high an overview of current and future offered a glimpse behind the scenes at
precision, perfect quality and efficient developments in road construction. VÖGELE – the most modern road paver
processes – which is why the Road WIRTGEN presented precise levelling, factory in the world. Visitors were able to
Technology Days also o ered insights into cost-e ective cutting and advanced recycling explore the production facility, built in
digital measuring and control systems. technologies, while VÖGELE presented the 2010 and currently being expanded with
WIRTGEN, VÖGELE and HAMM so ware-based process management system, a dispatch hall and additional production
demonstrated the latest 3D solutions in WITOS Paving. e telematics solution facilities, on a tour covering a total of 18
two technology presentations. The SP networks road pavers, mixing plants and stations. An interactive special exhibition
15 slipform paver from WIRTGEN, for lorries, among others, supporting a perfectly entitled “uality Management” also
instance, can pave even the smallest of coordinated supply of mix. All the players used display panels, videos and exhibits
radii entirely automatically thanks to the involved have real-time access to all data to demonstrate what requirements the
GPS-based Autopilot. e 3D Navitronic such as machine operating data and lorry components have to meet and what controls
Plus solution from VÖGELE, meanwhile, loading and unloading times, allowing they have to pass through on the way to
allows the layer thickness, the screed's them to coordinate all processes precisely. nal assembly and delivery to the customer.
position and the paver's direction of motion HAMM demonstrated intelligent solutions “uality in road construction begins with
to be controlled automatically. And the for compaction, including the intuitive Easy us,” says Bernhard Düser, member of the
HCQ system from HAMM measures the Drive operating concept and the principle Board of Directors of JOSEPH VÖGELE
most important compaction parameters of oscillation, where tangential rather than AG. “Only with perfect and technically
and shows the roller operator directly on vertical shearing forces are directed into sophisticated products can our customers
the display where more compaction is the material to be compacted. e drum build high-quality roads.”

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