TWO major players in the concrete machine industry – Simem and Putzmeister – are combining their resources to clinch a significant global market share in the field of concrete mixing and batching plants.

Simem is a leading global supplier of stationary and mobile concrete batching plants, as well as concrete distribution systems for readymix, precast and infrastructural projects. Major references such as the latest Panama Canal expansion project, the CrossRail mega-railway in the UK, the Renaissance Dam in Ethiopia, or the earlier Eurotunnel and Hong Kong Airport testify to its technical leadership in its field.

Simem also provides world-class solutions in the field of environmental engineering, with innovative technologies for water treatment plants and solid treatment plants in civil applications as well as industrial industries such as the oil and gas, the steel, the textile and the food processing.

Simem, owned by the Furlani Family, is headquartered in Minerbe in Verona, Italy, and has a global presence through a network of subsidiaries, such as Simem India, with manufacturing facilities in Gujarat, and Simem America in Texas. Founded in 1963, Simem will complete 50 years of operation this year and will generate a global revenue of €50 million ($66.26 million).

Putzmeister Holding and its subsidiaries develop, produce, sell and serve their customers worldwide with high-quality machines for placement and transportation of concrete, such as concrete pumps, truck mixers, placing booms and accessories. In other business units, Putzmeister also supplies industrial technology, pipe delivery systems of industrial solids, removal of excavated material in tunnels and underground, mortar machines, plastering machines, screed conveying and other special applications.

Putzmeister’s target markets are construction, mining and tunnelling as well as large-scale industrial projects, power stations, sewage and garbage-incinerating plants. The company is headquartered in Aichtal, Germany, and since March last year, Putzmeister is part of the Sany Group. In 2012 Putzmeister generated a global revenue of €680 million ($901 million).