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Making fast progress with the ideal tool fitting

Europe’s largest road construction site is currently Poland, where the A1 motorway is being built. For lovers of large construction machines this site is sometimes a veritable feast for the eyes: during the first phase of construction almost 100 Wirtgen Group machines were involved both in the earth-moving work and the laying and compression of the roadbed all the way to work on the asphalt top surface. Included amongst the factors ensuring that the road construction makes fast progress are Betek tools, with all of the machines fitted with Betek road construction tools.

Civil engineering and road construction firm Skanska Poland has already successfully completed the first 90-kilometre section of the new motorway and has already started to tackle the second section from Grudziadz to Czerniewice. This 62-kilometre section is split into four construction jobs and work is being started simultaneously on all four.

Betek’s Thomas Allgaier is in close contact with the users: “The road construction guys in Poland know that with our road bits they have high productivity, great cutting capacity and a long service life guaranteed. The long life of our bits in combination with our holder protection is something they can rely on. And they know that if they encounter any special challenges, we’ll quickly be there on site.” As an expert partner for innovative road construction technologies Wirtgen is valued by road construction firms around the globe. Early this year, Wirtgen opened a new base in Poznan and thus has its finger on the pulse of the mega A1 project. On the construction site itself the company has three service technicians and a coordinator permanently on duty, as all of the machines have to be operational day and night. The Wirtgen technicians in Poland know that they can rely on the advice of their partners at Betek.

The A1 motorway is part of the pan-European VI corridor, which links the Baltic Sea area in northern Europe with the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria. In Poland the A1 represents a link between the ports of Gdynia and Dansk, as well as with Katowice in the industrial region of Silesia. With the new motorway the upgrade of the infrastructure is helping to foster Poland’s links with other Central European countries.