Wirtgen focuses on roadbuilding sustainability

Wirtgen Group, a Germany-based business unit of John Deere, says its product development continues to focus on “production systems with ecological and economic savings potential,” including pavement recycling machinery.

At the Bauma 2022 trade fair in late October in Germany, Wirtgen says it dedicated exhibition space covering digital system concepts and sustainability, showcasing “trailblazing road construction solutions.”

Products on display included an all-electric impact crusher from the Kleemann brand (part of Wirtgen Group) and two Wirtgen compact milling machines with a “comfort cabin.”

Wirtgen says it also presented “production systems providing complete road construction solutions.” Says the company, “It is in the sum of these solutions that the greatest ecological and economic potential lies—solutions that cover everything from cold recycling and asphalt recycling to emission-free applications in cities and other sensitive locations, as well as large-scale rehabilitation measures and small-scale, municipal work.”

“Users benefit not only from the coordinated Wirtgen Group machine portfolio, but also from the synergies generated by the alliance with John Deere,” Wirtgen adds. “This also applies to the processing of quarry and recycling materials, where John Deere wheel loaders together with Kleemann crushers and screening plants form an integrated production system.”

The Kleemann Mobirex MR 130(i) PRO impact crusher has what Wirtgen calls a fully electric drive concept. The new unit of the Kleemann PRO Line is used as a primary and secondary crusher in quarry and recycling operations, according to Wirtgen.

With its sustainable solutions, Wirtgen Group says it wants to “support its customers not only in satisfying the growing demand for infrastructure in a rapid and cost-efficient way, but also in already fulfilling the mounting requirements with respect to environmental protection as well as to safeguarding nature and humanity.”