March 2008

  • Wade Bowman Joins Wirtgen as Manager, Concrete Slipform Sales

    T. Wade Bowman has joined Wirtgen America, Inc., as national sales manager, concrete slipform products. Bowman has over 15 years of sales and marketing experience for construction equipment and high-tech navigation aids, including six years as international sales manager for Power Curbers, Inc., Salisbury, N.C.

    In Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Larry Howorth joined Wirtgen America as district sales manager, western Canada, for the Wirtgen, Hamm and Vögele lines. Most recently he was general manager, Columbia Bitulithic division of Lafarge Canada, Inc. His work experience also includes a major distributor of liquid asphalt and road maintenance products, and equipment distributors in western Canada.

    And long-time Wirtgen recycling specialist Mike Marshall has been named director, recycling products, for North America, responsible for all reclaiming, recycling and stabilization products there.

    For further information, please contact:

    Wirtgen America, Inc.
    Bruce Monical
    6030 Dana Way
    Antioch, TN 37013

    Phone: 615-501-0600
    Fax: 615-501-0691
    email: bmonical@wirtgenamerica.com

    BACKGROUNDER


    Wirtgen America, Inc., Nashville, is the North American arm of the Wirtgen Group, the single-source marketer of the world's most technologically advanced lines of asphalt reclaiming/recycling, concrete slipform paver, and surface mining equipment from Wirtgen, asphalt and soil compactors from Hamm Compaction Division, asphalt pavers from Vögele America Inc., and construction materials processing equipment from Kleemann.

    In late 2004 Reinhard Wirtgen, founder of Wirtgen Group, was honored as one of the "Top 100 Private Sector Transportation Design & Construction Professionals of the 20th Century" by the American Road & Transportation Builders Association.

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