VÖGELE AMERICA

Chambersburg Plant

Vögele America Inc. pavers are built in state-of-the-art facility in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The plant includes 60,000 square feet of manufacturing, warehousing, and office space on 10 acres of land. It was built specifically for the design, assembly and support of asphalt pavers in North America.

Vögele runs an automotive-style assembly operation. The plant utilizes Kanban and just-in-time (JIT) inventory management to control cost and optimize the flow of material. Vögele America management has developed a strong nucleus of suppliers in the Pennsylvania area that provide fabrications, electrical, and hydraulic components. Top quality components are used, such as Cummins engines, and Sundstrand and Rexroth pumps and motors. Employee involvement teams ensure product quality to the highest standards.

Vögele keeps an extensive inventory of spare parts, with over 92 percent same day order fulfillment for stock and emergency orders. This, coupled with a high degree of parts commonality across the product line, assure you that the parts will be in stock, whether at the dealer or the factory, when you need them.

"The addition of Vögele Series asphalt paving products to Wirtgen and Hamm completes the circle of advanced technology, high-production and high-quality paving products that will allow North America's paving contractors to fulfill their desire for single-source procurement," said Stu Murray, president, Wirtgen America Inc. Vögele America's paver line, Wirtgen's market-leading, 18-model line of asphalt milling machines -- now coupled with the Hamm ® Compaction Division line of 30 models -- will allow Vögele and Wirtgen America to serve the total market needs of North America's highway construction, reconstruction, repair and recycling and reclaiming contractors, Murray said. "This focus will continually bring new technology forward with high production, low cost solutions for paving contractors," he said.

Vögele America's paving line of products consolidates the Wirtgen Group's position in road construction and reconstruction equipment worldwide, providing market-leading cold milling and recycling, soil and asphalt compaction, and now asphalt paving equipment. available to customers from its single-source provider in North America. Wirtgen America Inc. is the North American subsidiary of Wirtgen Group of Germany.

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