Goppingen: An Integrated Production Facility for Kleeman Crushers

P.P. Basistha
Wirtgen Group's Kleeman crushing manufacturing unit is located in Goppingen. It is close to industrial town of Stuttgart housing Bosh and other major industrial establishments including Mercedes Benz. The factory was founded by Ferdinand Kleeman in 1857. The business entity was acquired by Wirtgen Group in 2006.
The unit manufactures Kleeman's Mobicat, Mobicone, Mobirex and Mobifox series of tracked crushers. It is instrumental for Wirtgen to make it attain the company's targeted 12 percent global market share in crushing business among the estimated volumes of 5000 units in the global market. Complete with in house facility to manufacture the crushers with production facilities, with shot blasting unit, welding and paint shop, featuring lean manufacturing, the facility is ready to manufactures entire range of Kleeman crushers, mainly the 'EVO' series of tracked crushers, featuring diesel-electric drives. The company proposes to introduce the units with a capacity of 200 tph in Indian market in the near future.