File:Putzmeister Logo.jpg | |
Industry | Design, manufacture and sales concrete pumps. |
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Founded | 1958 |
Headquarters | Aichtal, Germany |
Key people | Norbert Scheuch (CEO) Dr. Gerald Karch Dr. Ralf von Baer |
Products | Concrete Pumps |
Website | www.putzmeister.de, www.putzmeisteramerica.com |
Putzmeister is a German manufacturer of concrete pumps, headquartered at Aichtal and the largest in its field.[1] It also provides pumps for pumping a wide range of different materials, for example slurries, fly ash, sewage, and compost.[2]
Putzmeister is German for "Plaster Master" (Putz Meister).
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 2008, Putzmeister broke its own record by pumping concrete to a height of more than 700 m at Burj Khalifa.[5]
In light of the 2011 Japan earthquake and resultant nuclear incident and the Fukushima plant, two Putzmeister concrete pumps were flown from Atlanta, Georgia. Transported on an Antonov An-124, the pumps area able to be controlled remotely from 2 miles (3.2 km) away. They will be deployed to try to stabalise the four reactors with additional water pumping capacity, and later used to encapsulate the damaged reactors in concrete.[6]