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The main VÖGELE production facility

Quality starts here

To pave high-quality roads efficiently and economically, you need specialized, reliable machines. Our main production facility in Ludwigshafen am Rhein aims to satisfy precisely these requirements: specialists develop and manufacture some 40 different types of machine and 16 types of screed in the most modern production facility for road pavers in the world, with over 1,200 skilled employees, intelligent production systems and an efficient factory design guaranteeing optimum processes.

370,000 m²

Area of site

100,000 m²

Covered area

2,900 m²

Training area

Quality means accuracy

Did you know, for example, that we use special honing machines to eliminate microscopic irregularities up to 20 times finer than a human hair?
... that the assembly of a VÖGELE paver involves over 500 test points?
... that our digital employee information system provides support for each individual production step to prevent staff making errors?

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Intelligent production technologies

The aim of our production is to provide customers with perfect, customized machines and spare parts and to keep delivery times as short as possible in the process. In order to satisfy efficiently an intense demand for road pavers, PowerFeeders and screeds, we continuously invest in intelligent production systems and automated processes. This allows us to increase our capacity, avoid mistakes consistently and make processes leaner, with particular attention being paid to screed production.

Screed production technology

Specialized employees

Our employees are experts – their commitment, skill and customer focus ensure the success of our products every day. They are passionate about road construction and guarantee our high quality, which is why we give a high priority to our in-house basic and further training courses, to exciting development potential and to a motivational working environment. Visit our Careers page for more information about joining the company and about current vacancies.

VÖGELE as employer

Sustainable production facility concept

Replacing wet-painting with solvent-free powder coating means low emissions
Production halls are heated with waste heat
High-speed shutters with minimal opening times save heating energy
An efficient block-type thermal power station minimizes CO₂ emissions when generating the necessary process heat
Extraction systems have energy-saving valves and frequency inverters
Waste water is conditioned biologically without chemical additives
Surface water drains away on site
Modern lighting concepts and control systems
Intelligent ventilation management: automatically switched off when office windows are opened

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Tour in pictures

Main Building

The large main building accommodates some 200 employees performing commercial functions under one roof. Short distances and numerous conference rooms facilitate an intensive exchange of ideas and opinions. A highlight is the spacious reception and exhibition area containing some actual WIRTGEN GROUP machines: it always provides an exciting backdrop for customer and media events.

Research and Development

What are the solutions which will enable roads to be built even more efficiently, with greater quality, sustainability and safety? This is the question which drives our development engineers afresh every day. VÖGELE innovations include intelligent automatic functions such as AutoSet Plus, the InLine Pave paving method and the WITOS Paving Plus process optimization solution. Here our focus is not just the road paver, but also the entire road construction process.

Quality Management

VÖGELE stands for quality without compromise, which is why our experts subject every single component to a detailed check after each production and assembly step. At the end, all functions are checked minutely once again in the final acceptance inspection, but the paver only receives its test badge having successfully passed the final dispatch acceptance inspection.

Raw Materials Store

This stores some 170 different materials - including steel profile, steel sheet and steel tube - which VÖGELE needs for the production of screeds. Some 9,000 t steel sheet, 230 kilometres steel profile and 130 kilometres steel tube a year are delivered to the site and transferred by roller conveyor to the relevant saws or laser cutters.

Surface Treatment

The state-of-the-art powder coating facility is one of the highlights in Production: this is where in a multi-stage process, workpieces are suspended on an automated system, cleaned and then coated with powder. Powder-coating leads to a much better surface quality than conventional wet-painting and is also much more economical and environmentally friendly.

Spare Parts Store

From here, Customer Support supplies subsidiaries and dealers all over the world: employees process some 40,000 spare parts orders a year in this area (each of the indoor and outdoor spaces extends to 3,500 m²). To comply with all air cargo security requirements, the store is spatially segregated from Production and has a dedicated access control system.

Screed Assembly

This is where the heart of the paver, the screed, is assembled and subjected to several function checks. Employees assemble the finished screed from the various parts in a total of ten cycles. The last four cycles are equipped with testing devices which enable staff to set, test and, if necessary, correct immediately all the hydraulic and electric functions of the screed.

Paver Assembly

The modular development of the system means that a variety of VÖGELE pavers can be assembled on just two lines. The so-called “large assembly line” is used for employees assembling pavers from the Universal, Highway and Special Classes in a total of 13 cycles, producing the finished machine step by step from conveyor to hydraulics, electrics and electronics and on to the control software.

Dispatch

Shipped from Ludwigshafen all over the world: the large finished goods hall provides important storage and shipping capacity.

Products

The VÖGELE product range includes the right road paver for every application, screeds with innovative precision engineering and VÖGELE PowerFeeders which deliver pure power for large-scale construction sites. Yet there are suitable solutions for digital road construction too.

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Technologies

We make our customers successful with our innovative machines. We are not interested in engineering achievements purely for their own sake – it is important to us to turn these achievements into solutions for our customers. This is what makes us the number one in road pavers.

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