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.

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.

It’s a project that kicked off in February 2014 with the largest continuous concrete pour as determined by GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS.

Bridging gaps is never easy, especially when you take on the mammoth task of building one of the largest suspension bridges in the US. Building a bridge over the mile wide channel of Puget Sound had become of paramount importance, as it was becoming difficult for the present structure to sustain the voluminous surge in traffic. Intended initially for 60,000 vehicles in a day, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge was now a pathway to more than 90,000 vehicles per day. The need of the hour was a newer, stronger and bigger bridge connecting Washington Mainland and the Olympic Peninsula.

January 2008 saw an agreement between the Atlanta Braves, the Gwinnet Convention and the Visitors Bureau. The agreement finalized the plans to bring the Gwinnet Braves home. The decision was reached based on a feasibility study conducted by the Gwinnet Commission and the Visitors bureau, which shortlisted Gwinnet County as the strongest markets in the country to support a baseball team.

After a three-week trek by ship and 16 km, Associated Concrete Pumping’s (Associated) Putzmeister 70-Meter, the world’s largest truck-mounted concrete boom pump, arrived in San Diego harbor from Aichtal, Germany. Soon after its arrival, the “Juggernaut” as the pump is often referred to, took concrete placement to the extreme on the Oakland Touchdown (OTD) – Phase 1 section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge project, helping to place 1,988m³, along with Associated’s 63- and 46-Meter boom pumps.

The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas more popularly known as 'The Modern' has an ethereal quality that’s hard to define. By day, The Modern provides a charming complement to the landscaped outdoors and reflective water of the pond. By night, when the concrete walls are bathed in light, the transparent glass and steel galleries appear as large lanterns floating in the pond.

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.

Lambeau Field, home to the National Football League’s Green Bay Packers, has sold out every single game since 1960. Demand for tickets remains high, with more than 112,000 names on the season ticket waiting list—an average reported wait time of more than 30 years.

The Lainzer Tunnel a 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.

In the early 2000s, traffic congestion on U.S. Highway 93, which crosses the Hoover Dam to pass over the Colorado River, was becoming not only a menace but also a serious economic burden. The highway is the major commercial corridor between Arizona, Nevada and Utah as well as on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) route between Mexico and Canada. The heavy traffic combined with the sharp highway curves also created a potentially dangerous situation for Hoover Dam visitors and dam facilities.

In the world of finance, Goldman Sachs are sometimes affectionately called ‘The Masters of The Universe’. And long before the tragic events of 9/11 brought home the importance of storing vital data in multiple locations, they had formulated a plan to build themselves a large office on the other side of the Hudson River from Manhattan, in New Jersey.

Putzmeister America, Inc. and its Special Applications Business (SAB) group are providing their complete global systems approach, including their pumping and material placing equipment, to the historic Panama Canal Third Set of Locks project (Third Set of Locks).

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

Amazon has become the first place consumers go to shop for almost anything. In its hometown of Seattle, the corporation has taken over 306,580 m² on three city blocks to create an Amazon neighborhood for its 55,000 Seattle employees.

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”.

9/11 goes down in history as the most shattering episode ever. The loss of nearly 3000 people on this day and site deserved a befitting memorial. A memorial that reflected not just the sorrow but also the resilience and the strength of the human spirit.

Along Europe's longest national highway, there is a 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.