The Wirtgen Group is presenting a glimpse of the future of road construction at this year's bauma. Wirtgen Group telematics and on-site solutions (WITOS) combines a telematics fleet management solution with a high-performance software system for process optimisation. WITOS is a modular software system that supports fleet and service management but also enables new approaches to process optimisation. This makes it possible to apply the just-in-time principle to organising construction processes and to optimi
Close to Guerrero Negro in the west of Mexico the world's largest salt field is located. There two Wirtgen Surface Miners 2200 SM produce enormous amounts of the "white gold" - economically and in top quality.
The company Exportadora del Sal S.A. (ESSA) – a joint venture between the Mexican government and Mitsubishi Corporation – has produced salt on a large scale in the Ojo de Liebre Lagoon since 1957. With a total area of 33,000 ha, this gigantic evaporation pond is now the largest salt works of its kind
Organisers for bauma 2019 in Munich are gearing up to host 3,500 exhibitors and 600,000 visitors – the biggest bauma ever.
The event in Germany - the largest such exhibition in the world, according to organiser Messe Munchen - will cover 18 halls and 614,000m² of show space from April 8-14.
Two new halls have been opened up for the 2019 show. Meanwhile, Messe München has chosen Canada as the exhibition’s partner country. Canada is the seventh largest market in the world for construction machinery and
A new generation of stabilisers is now available from Wirtgen, with this revised line-up following on from the WR240 launched last year. The new WR200 and WR250 models share features with the WR240 and are said to set new standards in cold recycling and soil stabilisation. The versatile WR240 suits heavy-duty stabilisation of large areas of non-cohesive soil, and for the cold recycling of damaged asphalt layers.