Plant and machines from Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm and Benninghoven are playing a vital part in the construction of Istanbul’s new airport . Istanbul’s new airport is Turkey’s biggest infrastructure project ever. It is also expected to become the world's largest airport by estimated passenger numbers.
Construction of Istanbul’s new airport facility is benefiting from the use of a large fleet of machines from the Wirtgen Group. When it is complete, this will be the world’s largest airport and will be able to handle 150-200 million passengers/year as well as 6 million tonnes of freight/year. This will make the facility substantially larger than the world’s current largest airport, the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, which handles around 105 million passengers/year.
Linnhoff & Henne (LH) is showing its range of mastic asphalt machines at bauma 2016. This includes mastic asphalt silos and finishers, bitumen laying machines, chipping spreaders, mobile transport and recycling mixers and special heaters. Featured on LH's stand is the Gussasphalt Transport Cooker with a kettle capacity of 4300 litres, three-cylinder diesel engine and a fully-automatic oil heating system with two burners. LH keeps the largest stock of spare parts for Gussasphalt machines and offers a 24-hour
Benninghoven has built an asphalt plant specially to order for a customer in Norway. Contractor Veidekke had a tight timeframe in which the plant could be erected at the firm’s chosen site in Sörli, as well as specific requirements as to its configuration. Benninghoven was able to construct the special TBA 4000 UC asphalt mixing plant to the firm’s request. A notable feature of the plant is that its large capacity materials towers stand 33m high.
The order was received in January 2014, with the plant the
