BOMAG

Bopparder Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft mbH, better known by the acronym BOMAG, is a German company and a global market leader in compaction technology and manufactures soil, asphalt and refuse compaction equipment, as well as stabilizers and recyclers. In 2005 BOMAG was acquired by the Fayat Group and since then also sells asphalt pavers and cold planers under the BOMAG label.

In addition to its headquarters in Boppard, the company has five other regional branches in Germany, located in Berlin, Chemnitz, Hanover, Munich, and Stuttgart. Furthermore, the company currently owns twelve subsidiaries operating in Austria, Poland, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, Russia, Brazil, Canada, Singapore, the United States, and the People's Republic of China. 500 dealers in over 120 countries ensure the global distribution of BOMAG products. BOMAG employs approximately 2,500 people in total, with around 1,500 at the main location in Boppard. The company is thus among the 30 largest employers in Rhineland-Palatinate.^[1]

BOMAG was founded in 1957 by Karl Heinz Schwamborn in Boppard.^[2] In the same year he developed a new design for compaction technology for a model of a double vibratory roller with all-drum drive.^[3]

In 1962 the first 7t double vibratory roller in the world was launched. The first branch office abroad opened in 1961 in Austria, followed by branches in China, the USA, France, Italy, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and Hungary up to 2002.

In 1970 Schwamborn sold the company to the American company Koehring.^[4]

The original site in Boppard was no longer adequate, so the company moved in 1969 to the Hellerwald industrial estate in the district of Buchholz (Boppard) where it remains today.^[5] A research centre was added seven years later. In 1982 production and steel engineering operations on the 7,000 m² site were expanded. Four years later a further 10,000 m² were developed for assembly, testing and painting heavy machinery. A powder coating plant was installed in 1997, and the site expanded again by 9,000 m² in 1998.

Koehring vendió su participación en BOMAG en 2001 a la empresa estadounidense SPX Corporation , ^{[ 6 ]} que a su vez vendió la empresa nuevamente en 2005 al grupo empresarial francés Fayat . ^{[ 7 ]}

En 2011, BOMAG adquirió 90.000 metros cuadrados del parque industrial Hellerwald II para ampliar aún más la zona de producción ubicada en Hellerwald I. La empresa invirtió 21,5 millones de euros —la mayor inversión individual en la historia de BOMAG— en la construcción de una fábrica de bidones de última generación, que se construyó en 12 meses y entró en funcionamiento a finales de junio de 2013.

BOMAG ofrece más de 20 grupos de productos con numerosas variaciones de producto de las siguientes categorías:

• Compactación (Pistoneadoras, placas vibratorias, rodillos vibratorios, compactadoras multiusos)
• Construcción de asfalto (rodillos tándem, rodillos combinados, rodillos de neumáticos, extendedoras de asfalto)
• Movimiento de tierras (Rodillos compactadores de un solo tambor, compactadoras de suelo)
• Reciclaje y estabilización (fresadoras en frío, recicladoras en frío, estabilizadores de suelos)
• Gestión de residuos (Compactadoras de vertederos)

Lecturas adicionales

• Verkehrs- und Verschönerungs-Verein Boppard 1872 (2004). Fünfzig Jahre "Rund um Boppard" (en alemán). Verkehrs- und Verschönerungs-Verein Boppard 1872. ISBN 978-3-00-013196-7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: nombres numéricos: lista de autores ( enlace )

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