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The WIRTGEN GROUP is an international operating German company in the construction industry. The WIRTGEN GROUP Holding GmbH holds five different product brands: WIRTGEN GmbH in Windhagen, Joseph VÖGELE AG in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, HAMM AG in Tirschen-reuth, KLEEMANN GmbH in Göppingen und BENNINGHOVEN GmbH & Co. KG in Mülheim an der Mosel, all located in Germany. The company’s core business is the development and production of machinery for road construction and maintenance. The WIRTGEN GROUP employs around 7,000 people around the world. It also has local manufacturing plants in Brazil, China, and India, 55 distribution and service offices and over 150 authorized dealers around the globe.
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History
In November 1961 Reinhard Wirtgen founded a small contracting business in Windhagen, Germany, starting with small haulage jobs and later specializing in road construction machinery with concrete breakers. Eventually Wirtgen expanded his fleet to 100 milling machines and 150 workers operating all over Germany. Reinhard Wirtgen progressed the product portfolio from hot milling to cold milling machines by the end of the 70s, which significantly increased the economic efficiency of the milling process. The international development of the company began when Reinhard Wirtgen set up the first subsidiaries outside of Germany.
Reinhard Wirtgen systematically expanded his product portfolio at the production plant to four product divisions. In 1981, Wirtgen built the first surface miners for opencast mining and routing operations in hard rock. From 1987 onwards, Wirtgen introduced cold recycling as an economical method of road rehabilitation. Two years later, he incorporated the slipform paver division into his company to offer solutions for the construction of concrete roads and poured-in-place concrete profiles.
Jürgen Wirtgen and Stefan Wirtgen took over the management of the company in 1997. The expansion of the corporate group began with the integration of the road paver manufacturer VÖGELE. HAMM, a roller manufacturer, was integrated into the WIRTGEN GROUP in 1999. High investments in the three production plants resulted in the expansion of production capacities and efficiency, as well as a strong presence for the corporate group on a global scale.
In 2006 the WIRTGEN GROUP consolidated two business lines: „Road Technologies“ and „Mineral Technologies“ . The second line was established with the incorporation of KLEEMANN GmbH, a German manufacturer of mobile and stationary processing plants.
In 2014, the manufacturer of asphalt mixing plants BENNINGHOVEN GmbH & Co. KG was also integrated into the company.
Wirtgen GmbH
Wirtgen GmbH is located in Windhagen in Rheinland-Pfalz, and it is the youngest and largest subcompany of the corporation. It is specialized in the production of road milling machines and cold recyclers, as well as Surface miners for open cast mining operations.
Joseph Vögele AG
Joseph Vögele AG is based in Ludwigshafen am Rhein in Rheinland-Pfalz. The company is the world market leader for asphalt pavers and belongs to the WIRTGEN GROUP since 1996.
Hamm AG
HAMM AG, founded in Tirschenreuth in Bayern, is specialized in compaction technology. It is part of the WIRTGEN GROUP since 2000 and it manufactures road and soil compactors.
Kleemann GmbH
Located in Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, KLEEMANN GmbH manufactures crushing and screening plants. It is part of the WIRTGEN GROUP since 2006.
Benninghoven GmbH & Co. KG
BENNINGHOVEN GmbH & Co. KG, located in Mülheim an der Mosel in Rheinland-Pfalz, is one of the largest recycling and asphalt mixing plant manufacturer in Germany. The company belongs to the WIRTGEN GROUP since 2014.
Ciber
Ciber Equipamentos Rodoviários is WIRTGEN GROUP´s local production facility for Latin America and completes the comprehensive product range with its own brand. The brand headquarter is located in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil, in the city of Porto Alegre. CIBER manufactures hot mix asphalt plants and pavers on five production lines. It also produces a model from the WIRTGEN cold milling machine line and a HAMM roller, each of which are adapted to the requirements of the local market.
Wirtgen China
The local production facility for China is established in Langfang, near Beijing. The production range includes selected models of WIRTGEN cold milling machines, VÖGELE road pavers and HAMM rollers. Around 380 employees work in an area of 200.000 m².
Wirtgen India
The new head office of WIRTGEN INDIA is located in the vicinity of Pune, an industrial center in the northwest of India. 270 employees work in the 129,100m² production area, assembling HAMM of two models single-drum <model 311> and mutli-drum <model HD99> compactors and KLEEMANN screens.