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World's Largest #Asphalt_Paver - VOGELE SUPER 3000-2 - 16m Wide - Germany: The SUPER 3000-2 is perfectly equipped for all kinds of large-scale #road construction projects thanks to its outstanding performance in terms of laydown rate, layer thickness and pave width. The flagship of the VÖGELE fleet of pavers is capable of building #asphalt pavements for motorways or large traffic areas up to 16m wide without joints. But the extremely powerful SUPER 3000-2 is also ideal for #roadbase jobs. Layers up to 50cm thick can be reliably placed in a single pass. For placing non-bituminous materials of a particularly abrasive nature, a Heavy-Duty Kit is available as an option, guaranteeing long service life of all wearing parts. Given its high tractive power and paving performance, the SUPER 3000-2 gets these challenging jobs done at record-breaking speeds. And in this respect, quantity by no means comes before quality. Drive system, conveyors and augers as well as compacting systems are dimensioned so as to build pavements true to line and level and achieve superb surface accuracy and optimal compaction even when working at the highest performance level in tough continuous operation. The SUPER 3000-2 is a reliable performer on all large-scale job sites and allows maximum paving quality to be achieved highly economically. Machines from the Wirten Group, including the world’s largest paver in the Vogele Super 3000-2, were commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Transport to pave a 50-feet-wide portion of the Berlin Ring. The Vogele paver and a WMH Werwie Maschinen-Handels GmbH laid down more than 2.5 miles of jointless pavement. According to the Wirten Group, the Vogele 3000-2 can place layers of up to nearly 19 inches thick in a single pass. The machine also has a laydown rate of 1,600 tons per hour. “The issue bothering the paving team from the outset was: can we achieve a homogeneous pavement quality over the full width of 15.5 meters (50-feet, 10.24 inches)?” Heijmans Oevermann GmbH senior site manager Dirk Lohne said. But the crew was able to accomplish the massive feat. A press release from the Wirten Group said “their concern was not unfounded, for this was the first time that such a pave width was to be realized with a high compaction screed.”