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SPOTLIGHT COVER STORY
State of the art technology
from Vögele, absolute
power for large jobsites kilometres (kms) as per Economic Survey
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Vögele mobile power feeder
increasing footprints in india
India has the second-largest road network Job Site: Delhi – Mumbai Expressway
in the world, spanning a total of 6.39 million 1350 km Delhi – Mumbai Expressway
(DME) project (NH-148N / NE-4) is an under
2021. This road network transports 64.5% of construction 8 lane access-controlled road
all goods in the country and 90% of India’s with a route connecting DND in Delhi with JNPT
total passenger traffic uses road network to in Mumbai. It has been designed with a speed
commute. limit of 120 km/hr and provision to expand to
The National Infrastructure Pipeline of which 12 lanes in the future.
Bharatmala Pariyojna is a part, have also This new greenfield expressway was approved
accelerated the construction of several for construction under the Bharatmala
Greenfield projects including the Expressways Pariyojana programme in 2017. This being a
& mega highways. With such humongous mega Green Field project is one of the ideal
ongoing and targeted construction of road project site for use of Mobile Feeder although
infra in the country, it becomes more pertinent the following prerequisite was checked/ensured
for the use of state of the art -innovative before machine was physically moved to job
technologies for cost optimisation and quality site.
results. 1. Total quantity of Asphalt to be paved
VÖGELE Mobile Power feeder offers cutting- 2. Current Paving methodology for 8 Lane
edge technology that sets standards in carriageways of 18.75 mtr width
modern road construction both in terms of 3. Batch (Hot Mix) Plant Capacity
quality and economic efficiency. This mobile 4. Availability of the paving front or length
feeder not only continues to gain popularity 5. Per day paving target (qty & length)
for use in large highway projects but has also 6. Average lead of the paving site from plant
exponentially contributed to deliver excellent location
paving results. 7. Availability and type of trucks used in
Since 2006, the VÖGELE Mobile Power feeders, Asphalt Mix Transport
are in use in various National Highway Projects It was more interesting to have this jobsite
in state of Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh because the opportunity was to use Mobile
& Gujarat. Feeder on one units of Vogele Asphalt Paver