INTERMAT 2024, taking place from 24-27 April in Paris, is one of the year’s must-attend events for the building and civil engineering sector where more than 1,000 exhibitors will showcase their offerings across three halls at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre
This year’s edition will put a particular focus on the environment and low carbon operations, and will be organised around the key themes of innovation, energy, new equations and CSR commitments.
Wirtgen will play into this overriding theme in its participation of the show in April, centring its appearance on environmentally-compatible technologies, solutions and applications that make decisive contributions to the reduction of CO2 emissions in the construction industry. As such, the company is hoping to deliver answers to fundamental needs for smarter, safer and more sustainable construction chains alongside more efficient extraction and processing of materials.
The company will boast a 700 sq m stand at the show and will display solutions from Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm, Kleemann and Benninghoven. Among the many highlights will be two exhibits that are being shown for the first time at an industry fair in France. With the MOBIREX MR 100(i) NEO / NEOe mobile impact crusher, Kleemann presents the first member of its new family of compact crushers. The machine is efficient, powerful and flexible – and the NEOe version makes all-electric operation a viable option.
Elsewhere, the new battery-electric tandem rollers of the HD CompactLine from Hamm will be on display. These provide low-noise compaction with zero local emissions and deliver the same compaction performance as their combustion-engined counterparts. The focus is also on sustainability when it comes to the latest generation of burners from Benninghoven. For the first time, burners can now be fuelled by 100% green hydrogen – a further milestone on the way to even more sustainability in the road construction process chain.
The particularly small, light and agile MINI 500 and MINI 502 road pavers from Vögele are particularly suited for the realisation of paving tasks in even the tightest spaces on construction projects. The electrically-powered MINI 500e and MINI 502e models will be available later this year.
Aside from the presentations and exhibits, visitors to the stand will be able to interact with the numerous specialists and experts on site, helping them to discover more about the details of the pioneering solutions.
Finally, Wirtgen Group has also indicated its excitement at being nominated for the INTERMAT Innovation Award in the category of ‘Roads, materials and foundations’. The submission was for its ‘Recycling of Cutting Tools’ which was made alongside system-partner, Betek. The partners worked on a method that enables the recovery of carbide and its re-use in the production of new cutting tools. The method not only conserves resources, but also reduces the carbon footprint of the production process.
