What have the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, the casino in Baden-Baden, the park of Potsdam’s Sanssouci Palace and the small town of Leinefelde in common? People strolling around, joggers and cyclists alike enjoy pathways of yellow asphalt having the looks of sand.

Few people may know where Leinefelde lies. A well known city situated along the banks of the river Leine is Hanover and Leinefelde is located at the very source of the Leine. In the town centre of Leinefelde, around the Märtensteich lake, a new recreational area was to be built and a Berlin planning office commissioned with redesigning the area around the lake. They proposed using coloured asphalt for the pathways. Coloured asphalts combine outstanding functionality with landscape design. The yellow asphalt, proposed for this job, looks like sand but offers all advantages of a paved pathway, a circumstance which quickly won over the city planners of Leinefelde.

The contract for the surfacing work was awarded to the Nordhausen-based branch of Kemna-Bau. And it was a fortunate coincidence that the company had just taken delivery of a new VÖGELE SUPER 800 and planned its first application. Given the paver’s compact design, it was the ideal candidate for use in tight corners.

The fact that the paver was brand new offered another advantage: all machine components were spick and span and did not have to be cleaned first. When working with coloured mixes, cleanliness is an absolute must and crucial for a perfect final result. From the asphalt mixing plant and the feed vehicles through to the paver and the rollers, all machinery coming into touch with the coloured mix must be clean. Impurities caused by conventional black asphalt might result in dark stripes on the fresh, coloured pathways.

Great accuracy when surfacing small areas

After completion of the job, the contractor was fully satisfied with its new small machine. The paving team had surfaced some 1,100m² of pathways, between 1.6 and 2.5m wide, which fully complied with the specification in terms of evenness not exceeding the tolerance limits of ±2mm. With its maximum pave width of 3.2 m, the SUPER 800 is ideal for tasks in the landscaping sector – a sector where the small paver can truly flex its muscles. Due to its extremely compact dimensions, the SUPER 800 easily handles jobs, too, that need to be done in tight corners. The paver features a clearance width of just 1.2m and a track gauge of no more than 1.1m. This allows to also manoeuvre and pave easily and accurately within narrow strips milled out in pavements. At Leinefelde, light wheeled loaders were used to transport the yellow mix from the feed vehicle to the paver’s large 5-ton material hopper. On the job, the paving team made frequent use of the machine’s separately folding hopper sides when it came to smoothly getting around trees or other obstacles in the paver’s way.

With its AB 200 Extending Screed in TV version (with tamper and vibrators), the SUPER 800 achieved excellent precompaction. As a result, only a few roller passes were required to attain the final density of the pathways around the Märtensteich lake.

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