Company

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.
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.