Road Construction Will Increase In India And New Technologies Will Be Required To Fulfil This Need.

Ramesh Palagiri, Managing Director & CEO, Wirtgen India

How is the construction equipment market gaining pace in India?

The government is focusing to increase the road connectivity by increasing the length of national highways, expressways, economic corridors, industrial corridors, village roads (PMGSY) etc. The Indian government is also encouraging usage of innovative materials, automation and machine control technologies in the construction sector in order to improve efficiency and lower the impact on environment. The government has allowed 100% FDI through automatic route subject to applicable laws and regulation. The future trend indicates that the road construction will increase in India and new technologies will be required to fulfil this need.

How are you meeting the customer needs in a time-bound and cost-effective way?

The Indian customer is always looking for ‘Value for money’ products and whoever has the ability to deliver this, gains market leadership. 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 not only for individual machines and their engine and drivetrain technologies, but also 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.

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 as well as digital solutions and technologies of tomorrow which are already available for our customers.

How are your technologies and services addressing the changing needs of the customers?

With its innovative, high-performance and cost-efficient products and technologies for cold milling, soil stabilisation, hot and cold recycling, concrete paving and surface mining, Wirtgen leads the world market in road and mineral technologies. All the machines offered by Wirtgen are equipped with computer- assisted automated features which not only optimise operating processes and machine productivity but also improve operator performance. Intelligent information and diagnostic systems additionally support and relieve the operator, resulting in a faster and more efficient way of working. Wirtgen’s customer-oriented development expertise is a guarantee of innovations tailored to the needs of the market.