The Nigerian Federal Ministry of Works and Housing extended the scope of the contract agreed with Julius Berger Nigeria Plc (JBN) from rehabilitation to reconstruction of the A2 highway. The route connects the capital city Abuja in central Nigeria with Kano, in the north of the country.
Two complete cold recycling and paving fleets with a total of 45 machines had already been ordered at the start of the the reconstruction of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road (AKR) project. These included large milling machines and soil stabilizers from Wirtgen, cold recyclers and spreaders from Streumaster, Kleemann mobile impact crushers, Wirtgen cold mixing plants, Vögele asphalt pavers and mobile feeders, and Hamm rollers. Thirty more machines were shipped to Nigeria in the course of the fleet expansion.