Capital Equipment News May 2019

COMPACTION EQUIPMENT

The 85 kW HP 180 from Hamm will be available from mid-2019.

At the compaction edge

At bauma 2019, the Wirtgen Group once again demonstrated its innovation prowess in road construction equipment with several cutting-edge compaction equipment launches from its Hamm brand, writes Munesu Shoko .

T he Wirtgen Group’s booth at bauma 2019 drew a record number of visitors. With a total of 120 exhibits, including 18 world premieres and 25 innovations, as well as six interactive technology demos, the booth was packed with leading machine and application technologies from Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm, Kleemann, Benninghoven and John Deere. The trade show in Munich clearly demonstrated that Hamm remains a leading name in compaction gear. With the HP series, Hamm presented a totally new generation of pneumatic tyre rollers packed with technical innovations and further developments. For example, Hamm has developed a common platform as the basis for all model variants in every market throughout the world. In addition, there are important innovations affecting the operator’s platform, the water and additive sprinkling system, as well as the ballasting. Over 35 years ago, Hamm became the first roller manufacturer to offer a drum with oscillation capability. Today, the technology is an integral part of the OEM’s range of products and is being continuously developed. At bauma 2019, Hamm presented the latest innovation in this segment, rollers

with split oscillation drums, for the first time.

Series HP In the 1960s, Hamm launched the revolutionary GRW and has continued to develop it up to the present day. Today, a good 50 years later, the Tirschenreuth-based compaction specialist has again launched a new generation of this roller type: the HP series. The new pneumatic tyre roller generation will gradually replace the existing GRW series throughout the world during the next two years. The first models, the HP 280i and HP 280, have already been available since the beginning of 2019. It is envisaged that all models and variants will be available worldwide by the end of the year. Like before, Hamm will produce the pneumatic tyre rollers in different basic versions: on the one hand the HP 180 and HP 180i models with operating weights of 8 t to a maximum of 18 t and on the other, the HP 280 and HP 280i models with operating weights of between 10 t and a maximum of 28 t. Here, Hamm is providing individual markets with particular models to suit locally demanded weight classes and equipment variants – taking the locally applicable emission regulations

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