Recyclers are the machines BOMAG groups under recycling and stabilisation, next to cold planers and soil stabilisers. They work on an existing road or on weak ground, mixing the material in place instead of loading it out and bringing new stone in.
Bomag recyclers at a glance
| Maker | BOMAG, Boppard, Germany |
|---|---|
| Machine class | cold recyclers and soil stabilisers |
| Related machines | cold planers and asphalt pavers |
| Group since 2005 | Fayat of France |
| Fayat division | Road Equipment, with Marini, Dynapac and others |
| US expansion | 2013 purchase of Terex divisions CMI and Cedarapids |
| US plant | assembly and parts warehouse at Ridgeway, South Carolina, 2015 |
| Source | BOMAG, English, German and French Wikipedia |
There is no separate Wikipedia article on BOMAG recyclers and no model-specific specification in the sources; the page is based on the BOMAG company articles in three languages. Based on brand sources only.
History of the Bomag recyclers
A compaction maker from Boppard
BOMAG was founded in 1957 by Karl Heinz Schwamborn in Boppard and made its name with compaction machines, beginning with the hand-guided BW 60 double vibratory roller. Its product list still opens with compaction, but it runs on through asphalt construction and earthworks to a fourth group, recycling and stabilisation, made up of cold planers, cold recyclers and soil stabilisers.
The Fayat years
In 2005 the French Fayat group bought BOMAG from the American SPX Corporation, which had held the company since 2001 after buying it from Koehring. Under Fayat, BOMAG also began selling asphalt pavers and cold planers under its own label. The French article places BOMAG in the group’s Road Equipment division together with Marini, Marini-Ermont, Dynapac, SECMAIR, RAVO and Scarab.
Across the Atlantic
The French article records that BOMAG strengthened its American position in 2013 by buying certain divisions of the Terex group, CMI and Cedarapids among them. In 2015 an assembly plant with a spare parts warehouse for maintenance was built at Ridgeway in South Carolina, after the works at Kenanee in Illinois were closed. Today the company lists twelve subsidiaries, among them in Austria, Poland, France, Italy, Britain, Russia, Brazil, Canada, Singapore, the United States and China, and 500 dealers in more than 120 countries.
Design and features
- Recycling and stabilisation: one of the five product categories BOMAG lists, with cold planers, cold recyclers and soil stabilisers.
- Mixing in place: the recycler works the old road material or the soil where it lies, as the video below shows on a full-depth reclamation job.
- Shared with asphalt work: cold planers came to the BOMAG label with the Fayat takeover of 2005.
- Large dealer network: 500 dealers in over 120 countries, according to the company articles.
- Built at Boppard: the head works has stayed in the Hellerwald estate since 1969, with a new drum factory added in 2013.
Bomag recyclers versions
- Cold recyclers: machines that rework an existing asphalt pavement in place.
- Soil stabilisers: machines that mix binder into weak ground to make it carry a road.
- Cold planers: milling machines sold under the BOMAG label since 2005, the model BM 1000/35 among them.
- Asphalt pavers: the other product line that came with the Fayat takeover.
The rollers are described in Bomag BW rollers, the soil and waste machines in Bomag BC. More machines are in the BOMAG collection.
Video: Bomag recycler mixing soil on a full-depth reclamation project in Indiana
Video on YouTube.
Sources
- BOMAG, English Wikipedia: product categories, Fayat takeover, dealers
- BOMAG, German Wikipedia: company history, recycling category
- Bomag, French Wikipedia: Road Equipment division, 2013 Terex purchase, Ridgeway plant
