The Wirtgen Group and John Deere at CONEXPO 2023

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

On a total exhibition space of around 81,000 sq ft (7,500 m²), visitors to the show were treated to an enormous range of innovative products and digital solutions – including world and CONEXPO premieres and machines designed especially for the North American markets. The appearance at the show was dominated by the big issues that will shape the future of the construction industry – sustainability, digitalization, automation, and electrification, and the question of what solutions already exist and how the overall ecological and economic potentials of construction projects can be optimized 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 real-life configurations that enabled visitors to gain a good impression of potential synergy effects. In addition to this, the Technology Pavilion presented the corresponding digital system solutions and assistance systems.

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-meter class milling machine, compact front-loaders for working widths up to 4 ft 3 in (1.3 m), 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

Outstanding Versatility for Inset and Offset Concrete Paving

Wirtgen presented the new generation of slipform pavers with two particularly adaptable machines. The SP 15i enables variable positioning of the slipform paving mold – a particular advantage when producing monolithic profiles with the offset paving method. The SP 94i is a fully modular inset slipform paver in the 10-meter 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 narrow walkways and cycleways in inner-city areas to urban and rural roads, and the rehabilitation of highways and freeways. 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 individual paver models in our Press Release.

Hamm: Innovative Machine Technology and Digital Solutions for the Asphalt Paving Sector

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

North American Premiere: 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. The entirely new HC series compactors achieve high levels of compaction and are simultaneously optimized to minimize 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, for example, the Smart Doc digital site documentation system. Thanks to ECO Mode, all models work in the economical partial-load range for most of the time.

Intelligent Line Coupling

For automatic optimization of the crushing process between crushing plants and to achieve maximum utilization 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.

Find out more in our Press Release

The Digital Twin of CONEXPO 2023

Anyone who didn’t manage to get to this year’s show still has 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.