At the world's biggest show of construction machinery – bauma 2010 – contractor Johann Bunte Bauunternehmung GmbH und Co. KG from Papenburg, Germany, opted for the VÖGELE InLine Pave® concept.

InLine Pave® from VÖGELE is a particularly innovative concept perfectly suited to building compact asphalt pavements "hot on hot", although conventional road projects can also be carried out very economically and to high standards of quality using the InLine Pave® technology from VÖGELE.

Bunte already have many years of experience in building compact asphalt pavements. Therefore, the company's management studied the new InLine Pave® concept conceived by VÖGELE in great detail before deciding to buy. WIRTGEN Hamburg Vertriebs- und Service GmbH, the sales company responsible for this customer, visited several job sites together with the decision-makers from Bunte and organized demonstrations of the concept.

Bunte chose the InLine Pave® train offered by VÖGELE on account of its outstanding technological concept, the cost-efficiency of the VÖGELE Inline Pave® technology and the high demand for pavement rehabilitation in Germany.

InLine Pave® is based on the use of slightly modified machines of standard design. This means for contractors that every single machine of the InLine Pave® train can also be used for conventional road projects, which allows paving jobs to be planned flexibly and at short notice. For Manfred Wendt (Dipl.-Ing.), Bunte's managing partner, this was a decisive advantage, as it "increases productive utilization of the machines and makes the investment more profitable".

The first InLine Pave® job by Bunte is scheduled for summer 2010, when a 90km stretch of the German A1 motorway between Hamburg and Bremen will be rehabilitated in ten stages.

The VÖGELE InLine Pave® concept in detail: paving method and machine technology

InLine Pave® means that the process of paving takes place by machinery working "in a line", one immediately after the other. All machines feature a very compact design. Dimensions and weights have been conceived so that transport from one site to another is a routine task.

An InLine Pave® train comprises three machines: a feeder, such as the VÖGELE MT 1000-1 Mobile Feeder or the new MT 3000-2 PowerFeeder Offset, a SUPER 2100-2 IP paver for placing binder course and a SUPER 1600-2 or SUPER 1800-2 for paving surface course. As an alternative, machines from the “dash-1” generation of VÖGELE pavers, delivered in the past, can also be upgraded at low cost.

The paving process starts with the feeder. It receives binder and surface course mixes supplied by feed vehicles and transfers the mixes, by turns, either directly into the large material hopper of the paver for binder course or - via the InLine Pave® transfer module - into the material hopper of the paver for surface course. A system of lights signals to the drivers of the material feed vehicles whether mix for binder course or surface course is needed.

The SUPER 2100-2 IP paver’s task is to place binder course of high density and with high resistance to deformation. The machine comes with a special AB 600-2 Extending Screed in TP2 Plus version for compaction at the highest level. VÖGELE have gathered a wealth of experience for decades in the field of high compaction.

The AB 600-2 TP2 Plus Extending Screed has been developed for the special requirements of "hot on hot" paving. As a High Compaction Screed for the InLine Pave® process, it is capable of achieving precompaction that high, that the paver for surface course weighing some 40 tonnes (including material and extra storage hopper) can travel on the binder course without adversely affecting it. The surface course is then laid directly onto the fresh, hot binder course.

The SUPER 2100-2 IP for placing binder course is equipped with a separate transfer module used for InLine Pave® jobs. The module transfers the mix received from the feeder – over the paver for binder course – into the material hopper of the paver for surface course. The transfer module mounts or demounts within a very short time. Conversion can be completed in no more than 6 hours in the contractor’s workshop by just two persons.

The third player in the InLine Pave® train is a conventional paver, either SUPER 1600-2 or SUPER 1800-2. For InLine Pave® applications, the machines are equipped with wider track shoes (400mm) and a water spraying system for the crawler tracks. An extra material hopper holding 25 tonnes, insulated against loss of heat, is placed into the paver’s regular material hopper and can receive a feed vehicle’s load.

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