June 2009 - VÖGELE Open the Throttle for the Formula 1

All told, the project in Abu Dhabi involves laying some 950,000 tonnes of crushed stone for base course and surfacing an area of 750,000m² with 210,000 tonnes of asphalt.

July 2008 - Paving at Top Speed

Speed is essential on every race track. And that was also true for the extensive rehabilitation work on the Automotodrom Brno circuit carried out in a record-breaking six weeks.

July 2008 - Easy and Accurate: Grade and Slope Control with 2 Big MultiPlex Skis

How to build a road true to line and level without an existing reference ? The Big MultiPlex Ski, VÖGELE’s sensor system for grade and slope control, was fitted to a SUPER 1900-2 and helped achieve a perfect paving result when rehabilitating a rural road in Germany.

February 2007 - WIRTGEN Group Power for Europe's Largest Road Building Project

Since mid-2006, Skanska-NDI, a Swedish-Polish joint venture, has been undertaking construction of the first 90km stretch of a motorway that will traverse the whole of Poland in just a couple of years. This is the largest road construction project currently underway in Europe.

September 2006 - Last Stop Before the North Pole

Flights from Oslo and Tromsø are the most important link to Norway's Svalbard islands, which lie north of the Arctic Circle. Aircraft take off and land on the world’s most northerly runway located near the largest settlement on the group of islands, the town of Longyearbyen.