Wirtgen Group Showcases 45 World Premières at bauma 2025
The Wirtgen Group drew a global audience at bauma 2025 with a showcase of nearly 100 machines, including 45 world premières. In partnership with John Deere, the company attracted strong footfall at its booth, where technology presentations and interactive displays highlighted the future of road construction, earthworks, and materials processing.
The Live Shows emerged as a major highlight, with experts offering engaging demonstrations on massive LED screens. The presentations covered everything from individual machines and digital automation to advanced, efficient workflows—underscoring Wirtgen Group’s commitment to delivering end-to-end customer solutions.
The progressive digitalisation of construction projects
In the Technology Zone, the focus was on John Deere Operations Center™ Construction, the central platform for digital solutions for the management of construction sites. In addition to this, visitors had the first opportunity to take a closer look at the new Wirtgen Group Performance Tracker (WPT) Paving, WPT Compacting, WPT Recycling and WPT Crushing. Thanks to relevant performance data, they – and the already familiar WPT Milling – provide a continuous overview of the progress of entire projects. They also document all work carried out by a machine – for example a milled, asphalted, or compacted surface area or the volume of materials processed. Digital solutions thus contribute to ensuring that customers can fulfil their obligations for providing detailed reports without significant additional effort and can look forward to significantly fewer stress factors in their everyday work.
Smart solutions for Production Systems
The Technology Zone was ringed by Production Systems, the keynote theme of the booth at this year’s show. They consist of a linked train of ideally coordinated machines, the most suitable applications and processes and the appropriate digital solutions – in end effect, everything a customer needs for the realisation of a construction project. The Wirtgen Group brought eight examples of concrete applications to Munich – one of them presenting the topic of reduced-temperature asphalt, also known as warm asphalt or warm mix. This presentation showed, for example, how resources can be conserved and reliably processed in the production of the material.
This year’s show saw the first public presentation of a Production System that makes comprehensive use of Wirtgen Group Smart Automation Technologies in road rehabilitation. Access to real time data and the use of partially automated processes enables customers to rehabilitate roads more precisely, in higher quality and at lower cost. Other Production Systems also caught the eye of visitors to the show, for example, smart line coupling of crushing processes in materials processing, resource-friendly cold recycling processes, or soil stabilisation in the earthworks sector.
World premières in iron and steel – a magnet for machine operators
As at every other show, the machines exhibited by the individual specialised brands, Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm, Kleemann and Benninghoven/Ciber - and, of course, John Deere – drew the biggest audiences. The prospect of being able to see around 100 machines and plants quickened the pulse of many a visitor to the machine exhibition – especially the machine operators visiting the booth, who would, one day, very likely be at the controls of one of the alone 45 world premières and innovations at the show.
“The Wirtgen Group and John Deere are thrilled by the feedback from our customers – especially regarding our digital solutions in the field of Smart Automation. Their trust, which is also reflected in the sales successes at the show, is overwhelming and simultaneously serves as an inspiration to us all. Bauma was the ideal platform for showcasing holistic solutions for our customers’ production systems in line with our motto, Smarter. Safer. More Sustainable,” said Dr. Volker Knickel, CEO Wirtgen Group.
