The Wirtgen Group and John Deere at CONEXPO 2023

When Las Vegas calls, the entire industry comes. For the Wirtgen Group and John Deere, for many years represented separately at North America’s biggest construction trade show, this year’s event was something of a première: namely the first time the two companies shared a booth at CONEXPO.

On a total exhibition space of around 7,500 m² (almost 81,000 sq ft), visitors to the show were treated to an enormous range of innovative products and digital solutions – including world and CONEXPO premières and machines designed especially for the North American markets. The joint appearance at the show was dominated by the big issues that will shape the future of the construction industry – sustainability, digitalisation, automation and electrification, and the question of what solutions already exist and how the overall ecological and economic potentials of construction projects can be optimised from end-to-end by the use of smart Production Systems.

The Wirtgen Group and John Deere present their own dedicated Production Systems for applications in the industry sectors Roadbuilding, Site Development, Aggregates and Underground. Find out more about this in the video.

The ideal Production Systems for every application and construction sector

Perfectly coordinated Production Systems are an ideal basis for efficient and sustainable on-site operations

This concept was reflected by the booth, which was correspondingly subdivided into exhibition areas representing the four main categories: Roadbuilding, Site Development, Aggregates and Underground. At the booth, machines and equipment that interact in Production Systems were presented in true-to-life configurations that enabled visitors to gain a good impression of potential synergy effects. In addition, corresponding digital system solutions and assistance systems were on display in the Technology Pavilion.

Wirtgen is constantly expanding the range of applications covered by its cold milling machines

Wirtgen provided insights into its portfolio of cold milling machines for construction sites of all sizes: No matter whether a high-performance, rear-loading, half-metre-class milling machine, compact front loaders for working widths up to 1.3 m (4 ft 3 in), or two of the extremely versatile F series large milling machines – each and every one of them delivers maximum performance and highest productivity.

An overview of our range of cold milling machines can be found here.

Innovative cold milling technologies increase performance and productivity

Flexibility for inset and offset concrete paving processes

Wirtgen presented the new generation of slipform pavers with two particularly adaptable machines. The SP 15i enables flexible positioning of the slipform paving mould, which is an enormous advantage when producing monolithic profiles in the offset process. The SP 94i is a fully modular inset slipform paver in the 10-metre class.

All Wirtgen slipform pavers at a glance.

Vögele pavers for all paving tasks

With a selection of products developed especially for the North American market and international paver models, Vögele showed a fascinating cross-section from the Mini, Compact, Universal and Highway classes. The Vögele range covers the entire spectrum of paving tasks in road construction – from paving narrow footpaths and cycleways in inner city settings, to urban and rural roads and the rehabilitation of motorways. By the way: All pavers and screeds are manufactured at the brand headquarters in Germany, are ideally matched to one another and are designed and constructed to deliver highest productivity, efficiency and precision. Find out more about the various paver models in our Press Release.

Hamm: Innovative machine technology and digital solutions for the asphalt paving sector

Hamm also presented a programme packed with highlights and innovative developments for the road construction industry, including completely battery-electric powered roller models from the globally successful HD CompactLine series, HX series pivot-steered tandem rollers, the HD+ 120i VIO-2 HF articulated tandem roller and a world première: the HP 100i articulated pneumatic-tyre roller – the ideal roller for applications such as chipseal and asphalt compaction on smaller construction sites. You can find more information about the various machines in our Press Release.

North American première: HC series earthworks compactors

With the HC series, Hamm unites the advantages of all compactors with working weights of 11–25 t on a single platform. Although the entirely new HC series compactors are designed to deliver high compaction performance, they are simultaneously optimised to minimise CO₂ emissions. They also feature a range of new communication capabilities: All models of the HC series are "digital-ready", which means that they can be equipped with various interfaces and apps for the digital construction site, such as the Smart Doc system for digital site documentation Thanks to ECO Mode, all models also work predominantly in the economical partial-load range.

Intelligent line coupling

For automatic optimisation of the crushing process between crushing plants and to achieve maximum utilisation rates of the plant train, Kleemann plants can be simply linked with one another by intelligent line coupling. There is now an additional wireless option as an alternative to the safety-relevant cable coupling version. Wireless line coupling is easier to handle and makes the everyday work of the operator easier.

More information can be found in our Press Release

The digital twin of CONEXPO 2023

If you didn’t manage to get to this year’s show, you still have the chance to take a virtual tour of our booth and learn all about our exhibits at the show. Join us on a guided tour of the outdoor and indoor areas of our booth at CONEXPO and see all the highlights for yourself.