Success Stories

In December 2008, a devastating environmental disaster occurred in Kinston, Tennessee. The dam of a reservoir, which for years absorbed ash from the local coal-fired power station, ruptured under the load. Millions of cubic metres of black sludge poured over the region like a tidal wave, destroying houses and turning once-thriving local rivers into dead zones for fish. This shocking event drew attention to the dangers of storing ash with a high water content and sparked an urgent discussion about safety and environmental protection.

Tratolixo, Portugal’s largest waste management company, already had two Putzmeister lines and is now adding a third to increase production and as a back-up option.

Compañía Minera Santa Luisa mechanises shotcrete thickness control with Geokret 2.0, Putzmeister's system based on scanning the sprayed surface, significantly improving the process

Putzmeister stationary concrete pumps and stationary placing booms pump continuously to create massive caissons for an artifical island in the North Sea.

Contributing to Navayuga Engineering Company Limited (NECL) GUINNESS WORLD RECORD® for Largest Continuous Concrete Pour and Most Concrete Continuously Poured in 24 hours at the Polavaram Dam is a great way to kick of 2019

Putzmeister Wetkret 5 is the new Putzmeister equipment that Lurpelan Tunneling has acquired for the support works of the tunnels through which the railway tracks that will serve as a link with our Portuguese neighbours will run.

Modular construction 4.0. At the precast plant of Deutsche Modulhausfabrik GmbH (DMF), employees are reconceptualising construction with the production of Lechner cubes.

This application describes the succcessful customization and integration of an RV16 hydraulic rotary distributor with an EQV squeeze valve at a waste management facility in Toronto, Canada.

Founded in 1974, the Association’s objective is to create and guarantee a waste management process for the region that is both economically and ecologically sound. To this end, the Upper Franconia Waste Disposal Association (known in German as the Zweckverband für Abfallwirtschaft in Nordwest-Oberfranken or ZAW for short) operates the waste-to-energy plant in Coburg-Neuses, which thermally utilises the waste from over 260,000 residents, thereby generating electricity and district heating.

The Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link project forms an important step to build the European transport network to connect Scandinavia with Central Europe. In future the travelling time between Hamburg and Copenhagen will be cut down from 4.5 h down to 2.5 h and consequently reduces the CO2 emission for transportation.

RWE Power AG, one of the leading suppliers of renewable energy across the globe, operates sewage sludge handling plants from various manufacturers at several sites as part of its Refinement business area. RWE once again selected a Putzmeister solution for expanding the plant in the Goldenberg power station.

The Msikaba bridge is a cable-stayed steel deck bridge currently under construction, spanning the Msikaba River, near Lusikisiki in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. The Msikaba bridge is part of the N2 Wild Coast (N2WC) road-building project, which aims to improve the travel time between Durban and East London for light and heavy freight.

in the production of precast parts W+S Monnerjahn GmbH

The advantage is producing reasonable priced cement to achieve an advantage over competitors.

Vision, imagination and utmost devotion were the requirements to develop what is possibly the largest private sector crude oil refinery in the world - definitely not a task for amateurs.

Building a full functioning oil refinery is no easy task, especially if it’s the second largest, single-location refinery. Situated in Vadinar, Gujrat, this private sector crude oil refinery was slated to have an annual capacity of 64,400 m3 /d i.e 405,000 barrels and is home to over 1,600 employees.

Maximum speed, maximum adrenaline, maximum fun - this turbo charged Indian motor racing circuit is a treat for racers and fans alike. A challenging feat, the 5.14 km track played host for the inaugural Formula One Indian Grand Prix in 2011. Designed by renowned German racetrack designer Hermann Tilke this circuit has drawn praise from some of the world’s fastest racers, including superstar Lewis Hamilton.

A full range of Putzmeister equipment, from stationary pumps to shotcrete robots, will be aiding in the expansion and modernisation work for the Lisbon Metro, the largest underground construction project in Portugal for decades.

The Lainzer Tunnel a 8 miles (12.8 km) railway tunnel in Vienna was slated to connect the Westbahn (western railway) with the Südbahn (southern railway) and the Donauländebahn railway from December 2012. The idea was to increase the capacity of the east-west transit system.

The Jin Mao Building or the Jin Mao Towers, when translated, literally means the Golden Prosperity Building. When completed in 1999, it was amongst the tallest buildings of the world. The design of the firm draws from traditional Chinese architecture such as the tiered Pagoda, gently stepping back to create a rhythmic pattern as it rises. The mixed use building contains a shopping mall, food court, offices, restaurants, night clubs and the one of the world’s tallest hotels - The Grand Hyatt Hotel, Shanghai.

The project consists of three high rise towers in Worli, Mumbai, with the central tower touching a height of 1,066.27 ft (325 m) and the adjacent towers reaching a height of approximately 985 ft. (300 m). Two of the three towers are currently under construction.

It was a dream that defied not just gravity but the frontiers of audacity in the sheer scale and ambition of architecture.

Helping connect and bring order to the busy, bustling city of Bengaluru is the 42.3 km metro that is a complicated mix of underground and elevated stations.

Directly in front of Zurich Airport, Flughafen Zürich AG and Swiss Life are investing a billion Swiss francs into the new business district “The Circle”.

Along Europe's longest national highway, there is a 5.7 miles (9.1 km) section between La Herradura and Taramay that connects the cities of Cádiz and Gibraltar in the South of the Iberian Pensinsula and Barcelona in the North East.

The co-incineration of mechanically de-watered sewage sludge in existing coal-fuelled power stations with highly effective flue gas pollution control is an economic and sensible alternative to the above mentioned, environmentally harmful disposal methods.

The disposal of dewatered sewage sludge is an important point nowadays in refuse disposal. A very environmentally-friendly and favourably-priced possible disposal is burning it along with dewatered sewage sludge in household waste incinerators.

AHA Hannover is operating its organic waste treatment plant since the year 2005.

A plant for the co-incineration of sewage sludge was installed at the Kassel power station in 2016.

The SMITRED plant is located in Pluzunet, France. Sewage sludge from external suppliers is co-incinerated with about 50,000 tons/year of household waste.

2014 saw the commissioning of the huge sewage sludge incineration plant in Tuen Mun, Hong Kong.

The Steinhäule sewage treatment plant association was set up in 1984 and its members include 11 towns and communities around Ulm/Neu-Ulm in Southern Germany.

After a planning and manufacturing period of three years, the first foundation for the new offshore wind farm EnBW Baltic 2 was laid in August 2013, marking the start of the construction phase.

It goes without saying that working with a technology, engineering construction and manufacturing conglomerate, meant living up to the highest expectations when it came to concrete work. The brief this time was a chimney shell. The reason: a tall chimney is essential to discharge emissions as high as possible so that dispersion takes place in a very large area and reduces the concentration of dust or emission at the ground level, thereby reducing the harmful effects for humans and vegetation.