Tag: Wirtgen
Low cost and high quality are two of the most important criteria when it comes to rehabilitating roads. The Wirtgen cold recycling train has yet another advantage: roads can be re-opened to traffic in no time. A WR 240...
Indian company uses highly productive and extremely reliable Wirtgen 220 SM 3.8 surface miner, which specializes in soft rock mining, in a coal mine in the Indian state of Odisha.
India has extensive coal reserves and uses them as the...
When the clock was ticking on time-sensitive runway overlay project work in the remote Pacific Islands, civil construction specialists McConnell Dowell looked to the reliability and efficiency of milling and paving products from within the Wirtgen group stable to...
Surface mining takes over from conventional coal mining
The New Acland Mine (NAC), located adjacent to the township of Acland (Queensland), is part of the Australian based New Hope Group. Since opening of the mine, coal and interburden have been...
A Kentucky concrete slipforming contractor has moved in a big way into curb, gutter and parapet construction by utilizing the advanced technology available to them.
Fox Enterprises now constructs offset curb, gutter and parking lot “island” placements using an on-site...
During rehabilitation work near Tokyo, a W 210 large milling machine removed the surface and binder courses on the Jōban Expressway in individual layers. This makes it easier to separate the milled material according to type of mix and...
When a new residential area is developed, the individual contract work sections are often very detailed. Roads and paths have to be paved and access roads to the individual plots constructed. The various traffic areas are often separated by...
In recent years, the surface miner fleet of the Fortescue Metals Group (FMG), one of Australia’s largest iron ore producers, has grown to a total of 43 machines, with 28 Wirtgen 4200 SM and 15 Wirtgen 2500 SM, which...