Company History from 1981 to 1990: Setting Records

• 1982: Delivery of the largest concrete pump in the world with a boom height of almost 50 m. Putzmeister acquires Thomsen, Inc. to form Putzmeister America

• 1983: Delivery of the “Shotcrete Buffalo”, the largest wet shotcrete pump in the world
  
  

• 1985: Putzmeister sets high rise concrete pumping world record of 432 m in the Spanish power station Estangente-sallente

• 1986: Delivery of the largest concrete pump in the world with a 62 m boom. Putzmeister pumps with special radiation protection used to encapsulate damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor