Putzmeister history from 1996 to 2000

1996

• Opening of the 3rd Putzmeister manufacturing "hub" Putzmeister Shanghai, China.
• Foundation of 'Putzmeister Gera branch, the service-base in the new federal states.

1997

• Putzmeister is turning nto a joint-stock company.
• New world record: 2015m pumping distance in Le Refrain / France.
• Skywash service-robots in service with Lufthansa for outside cleaning of jumbo planes.
• The MP 25 takes the place of the successful MSx and sets new standards with manageability and mixing-quality.

1998

• Putzmeister Japan moves into new premises in the north of Tokyo.
• The founder of the company Dipl.-Ing. Karl Schlecht retires from the operative business and becomes chairman of the supervisory Board.

1999

• Putzmeister America, Brazil and Spain are enlarging there production capacities, resp. constructing new buidlings.
• PM systems engineering constructs the KOS 25100, a piston pump for the dredging of lakes and rivers with an output up to 250 m³/h.
• Delivery of the 1000th Pumi, truckmixer concrete pump.

2000

• Construction of the pump storage unit Goldisthal in Thuringia. Most different tunnel concreting and spraying equipment as well as Telebelt in operation.
• All stationary concrete pumps are available in a super sound-proof version for the use in city centres.
• In Japan, 3 mammoth double piston pumps type KOS 25200 with output rates up to 500 m³/h are in use at extraction of land.