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German construction equipment company

Putzmeister Holding GmbH
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Design, manufacture and sales concrete pumps.
Founded 1958
Founder Karl Schlecht
Headquarters Aichtal, Germany
Key people Christoph Kaml (CEO)
Products Concrete Equipment
Parent Sany Heavy Industries
Website putzmeister.com

Putzmeister is a German manufacturer of concrete pumps and other equipment for pumping, distributing and placing concrete, mortar and other high-density solids, and for preparing, temporarily storing, processing and transporting these materials. The firm is headquartered at Aichtal, and is the largest in its field.[1] It also provides pumps for a wide range of different materials, for example slurries, fly ash, sewage, compost and water.[2]

Putzmeister is German for "Plaster Master" (Putz Meister). In 2017, the company had 3,000 employees worldwide.

Putzmeister was founded by Karl Schlecht in 1958.[3] Schlecht designed a mortar machine based on his diploma thesis at the University of Stuttgart.[4]

In 1986, Putzmeister 52Z's were used in the Chernobyl nuclear accident, pumping over 300,000 m3 (390,000 cu yd) of concrete to entomb reactor number 4, setting a world record at the time for volume pumping.[5]

During the 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents at the Fukushima plant, multiple Putzmeister concrete boom pumps were flown to Japan from locations around the world. After the initial success of a M58-5 unit,[6] additional M62-6s and 70Z's were transported to Japan on-board chartered Antonov An-124s, the world's second largest cargo plane.[7] The 70Z is the world's largest boom pump,[8] able to reach over 67 metres (220 ft), and able to be controlled remotely from 2 miles (3.2 km) away. The pumps will be deployed to try to stabilise the four reactors with additional water pumping capacity.[_citation needed_]

In May 2008, Putzmeister reached a world record in vertical concrete pumping (606 metres (1,988 ft)), via their specially designed concrete pumps type BSA 14000 SHP-D, in building the Burj Khalifa.[9] In 2008, Putzmeister broke its own record by pumping concrete to a height of more than 700 m at Burj Khalifa.[10]

As the largest German-Sino transaction ever, at the end of January 2012 Putzmeister was sold to the Chinese Sany Heavy Industries, the construction-equipment maker run by China's richest man Liang Wengen.[11]

  1. ^ "Welcome at Putzmeister". European Union. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  2. ^ "Putzmeister – Pumps For Conveying Concrete, Mortar And High-Density Solids". Archived from the original on 2008-04-24. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  3. ^ "Putzmeister AG (May 24th, 2006)". Retrieved 2008-09-15. [_dead link_‍]
  4. ^ "Information about Putzmeister". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  5. ^ Chernobyl Site Report1 & Chernobyl Site Report1 – Putzmeister website.
  6. ^ Putzmeister – Concrete pump helps in Fukushima Press information no: 1627, date: 22 March 2011; "New Komeito post-quake initiatives being adopted," New Komeito Party. March 20, 2011, retrieved 2011-04-14.
  7. ^ Putzmeister – Four concrete pumps for Fukushima Archived 2012-03-22 at the Wayback Machine Pressinformation no: 1628, date: 28 March 2011
  8. ^ "World's Largest Concrete Boom Pumps En Route To Japan To Help Cool Nuclear Reactors", PR NewsWire, 04/09/11
  9. ^ "Burj Khalifa -- Conquering the World's Tallest Building". For Construction Pros. 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2023-09-27.
  10. ^ "Putzmeister to invest Rs 125 crore in its India operations". Retrieved 2008-09-15.
  11. ^ Sany Will Buy Cement-Pump Maker Putzmeister in Biggest China-German Deal Bloomberg Online, recovered 27 January 2012