Focus on Sustainable Road Construction

The Wirtgen Group supports and assists its customers in fast and cost-efficient ways, with the realisation of the world’s continuously growing demands for infrastructure and the fulfillment of specific criteria relating to environmental protection and the safety of humanity and nature. These include solutions for individual machines and their engine and drive train technologies for complete production systems in the road construction sector.

The company’s holistic approach to the entire road construction process chain promises the most effective understanding of the greatest ecological and economic potentials.

Digitisation as a Driver of Safety and Sustainability

Alongside machine efficiency and alternative applications and methods, digitisation and connected system solutions are important drivers in the development of the overall road construction process chain. The Wirtgen Group has developed application-specific core technologies, digital solutions, and technologies of tomorrow that are already available for our customers.

The Sustainability Strategy

The Wirtgen Group is a pioneer in the realisation of greater mobility in road construction. And, in this process, sustainability is a mainstay of the group’s corporate strategy. As a part of the John Deere Construction and Forestry Division, the sustainability goals of the Wirtgen Group make a valuable contribution to the overall strategy. For instance, a significant reduction of the emissions from transporting and operating machines and the overall activities at the group’s production facilities and sites is expected by 2030. At the same time, the Wirtgen Group anticipates a continuous increase in the number of sustainable machine and technology solutions by 2026.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

The article is authored by Ramesh Palagiri, who has completed 15 years as a Managing Director & CEO and has been a member of the John Deere Worldwide Leadership Council since 2017. During his tenure, the Wirtgen Group invested in a new manufacturing facility at Pune in 2009, to cater to the domestic market as well as for exports. Today, the Pune plant caters to the global market with more than 65 per cent of production being exported to 72 countries. Before he joined the Wirtgen Group, Palagiri was the Chief Operating Officer at Schwing Stetter India, a startup where he spent the first eight years since its inception.