VÖGELE Display Full Programme at Intermat

JOSEPH VÖGELE AG, the world market leader in the field of asphalt pavers, is renowned for its unrivalled range of machinery. The technologies from VÖGELE offer practicable and economical solutions for conventional and special-purpose tasks in the field of modern road construction. The innovative manufacturer is providing an overview of its unique product range at the 2009 Intermat trade fair with a total of six pavers and various screeds.

SUPER 800 – Professional asphalt paving on small areas

From its range of small pavers, VÖGELE are bringing their successful SUPER 800 to the venue on the River Seine. The small machine of compact design excels in inner-city road construction and is ideal for tasks in the landscaping sector. With a pave width of 0.5m to 3.2m and numerous practical features, such as a clearance width of just 1.1m and an asymmetrical material hopper, it masters all tasks in this segment excellently.

The SUPER 800's engine is both efficient and eco-friendly. For a good half year now, the engines installed in the small pavers comply with the new COM 3a directive for exhaust emission. In other words, both pollutant and noise emission levels are even lower than before.

Compact paver with more power and pave widths up to 5m

At Intermat, VÖGELE will also be presenting their extremely quiet SUPER 1300-2, a paver in the compact equipment class, as well as their smallest wheeled paver, the SUPER 1103-2. When developing these models, the product designers focused on upgraded power and cooling systems and on optimizing the hopper walls.

In the wake of switching to the new COM 3 engines, the power output of the SUPER 1300-2 has increased a remarkable 15 percent to 75kW. Also new are the longer bolt-on extensions of 2 x 80cm allowing jointless paving across a maximum pave width of 5m. In terms of performance, the user-friendly tracked paver is without doubt the leader in its class.

SUPER 1800-2: Convincing all-rounders

A prime example of the VÖGELE equipment’s high flexibility is the family of tracked pavers in the “SUPER 1800 class”. Two machines from this range will also be on show in Paris: a SUPER 1800-2 with AB 500-2 TP1 High Compaction Screed and a SUPER 1800-2 spray paver with SprayJet module for paving thin layers on spray seal, hot on hot.

SUPER 1800-2 with SprayJet Module:
Now new with larger emulsion tank and wider pave width

Despite its special-purpose equipment, the spray paver is not a special-purpose machine in the strictest sense. Rather, it is a standard machine that is ready for the special application of paving thin layers. Thanks to the modular design, it can be quickly converted back into a normal asphalt paver. VÖGELE thus created the basis for high productive utilization on the one hand and cost-effectiveness on the other.

In light of the great success of their SprayJet technology, VÖGELE also increased the system’s performance. For applications that require spraying high volumes of emulsion, an extra tank is now available (option) improving both the paver’s operating radius and its productivity. The extra tank can hold an additional 5,000 litres, meaning that a total of 7,000 litres of emulsion is available for paving.

Another new feature offered for the spray paver are optional spray bars for pave widths up to 6m. For 6-metre applications, the lateral spray bars are longer and fitted with two additional spray nozzles, so that a total of 24 nozzles is equipped for spraying. Combined with a VÖGELE AB 600-2 Extending Screed or an AB 500-2 with bolt-on extensions, the spray paver is capable of easily handling pave widths up to 6m.

SUPER 2100-2: When maximum performance is required

With their SUPER 2100-2, VÖGELE are presenting another multi-talented machine in the French capital. Handling laydown rates up to 1,100 t/h, this tracked paver is the ideal choice for large job sites. Its maximum pave width of 13m allows jointless surfacing of motorways, airfields or large traffic areas. And when equipped with a High Compaction Screed (at Intermat the SUPER 2100-2 will be on show with a SB 250 Fixed-Width Screed in TP2 version), perfect compaction results are achieved along with highest surface accuracy.

In this performance class, too, VÖGELE offer high flexibility. The modular design of the pavers allows special-purpose machines to be converted back into standard machines for conventional road construction within a short period of time. In addition to the afore-mentioned spray paver, the InLine Pave® machine for placing binder course is another example in this context.

So what exactly does InLine Pave® mean? With their new InLine Pave® concept, VÖGELE offer an innovative paving method particularly suited for two-layer paving, hot on hot. A SUPER 2100-2 IP paver comes with a AB 600-2 IP High Compaction Screed, equipped with two pressure bars, and places binder course. The degree of compaction achieved with this screed is so high that the paver following right behind the SUPER 2100-2 IP and placing wearing course can drive on the binder layer – not yet compacted by rolling - without the danger of sinking into the binder material.

ErgoPlus®: The ultimate in user-friendliness

From the compact pavers all the way to the high-performance SUPER 2100-2, all VÖGELE machines are equipped as standard with ErgoPlus®, the operating system for easy paver handling. This ergonomic and user-friendly concept encompasses the operator's platform, the consoles for paver and screed operators and NIVELTRONIC Plus®, VÖGELE’s own System for Automated Grade and Slope Control.

The logical and practical layout of the controls and the optimized arrangement of all functions make paver operation child's play. Furthermore, the system allows errors to be avoided, thus enhancing safety on the job site and improving paving quality.