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Slurry paving machines sold to Mexico

VSS Macropaver has scored sales for three of its slurry paving machines in Mexico. The first and second unit have already been delivered and the third will be supplied shortly. These recent deals reflect an increasing market for VSS right across Latin America. The company has now established a new dealer in Peru and the firm is well established in the road paving market, as it is already a dealer for Wirtgen, which the VSS team see as a complimentary product range.
March 16, 2012 Read time: 1 min
360 VSS Macropaver has scored sales for three of its slurry paving machines in Mexico. The first and second unit have already been delivered and the third will be supplied shortly. These recent deals reflect an increasing market for VSS right across Latin America. The company has now established a new dealer in Peru and the firm is well established in the road paving market, as it is already a dealer for 2395 Wirtgen, which the VSS team see as a complimentary product range.

Meanwhile VSS also has dealers in Costa Rica and Chile and in that last territory in particular, the company is keen to benefit from the expanding highways sector.

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