This article highlights Qingdao Volmec Machinery Co., Ltd.’s successful expansion into the Libyan market, particularly its order for 30 road rollers worth over 10 million RMB secured in mid-2023. These rollers, including pneumatic tire rollers and single drum vibro road roller, utilize fully hydraulic technology, making them suitable for high-altitude and high-temperature construction environments. Volmec’s success demonstrates the international competitiveness of Chinese construction machinery, and the company plans to continue deepening its cooperation with African countries, providing high-quality equipment to support infrastructure development.
I. Client Background
Amidst increasingly fierce competition in the international construction machinery market, Libya, as a key infrastructure construction nation in Africa, is actively promoting railway, highway, and large-scale engineering projects to support its economic development. The Libyan government highly values the upgrading and transformation of its local road and railway networks, especially in harsh environments such as high temperatures and high altitudes, where there is an urgent need for reliable and durable road roller equipment.
II. Road Roller Equipment Advantages: Technical Features and Adaptability
Qingdao Walmech, a construction machinery company specializing in the manufacturing and R&D of road rollers, is renowned for its high-performance fully hydraulic road rollers and has accumulated a strong reputation in the African market. This successful bid stems from Walmech’s in-depth understanding of the African climate and terrain, as well as its successful application cases of its products in similar environments, helping clients solve the inefficiencies and maintenance challenges of traditional equipment at high temperatures.
Walmech’s cooperation with Libya began in mid-June 2023, when the Libyan government issued a global tender for the procurement of various models of vibratory road rollers. Leveraging its technological advantages in fully hydraulic vibratory rollers, Walmech successfully won an order for 30 vibratory roller units, including double drum road roller and pneumatic tire rollers, with total sales exceeding RMB 10 million. This was Walmech’s largest export order in the first quarter of that year.
The first batch of 10 units departed from Qingdao Port on July 15, 2023, and was expected to arrive at a North African port in Libya within 60 days; the remaining 20 units were shipped in batches in August. These units, including pneumatic tire rollers and twin-drum rollers, are primarily intended for railway construction projects in Libya. Subsequently, the cooperation deepened: in October 2024, Walmech exported another 10 fully hydraulic vibratory rollers, with a total value of nearly RMB 10 million, supporting a key international construction project aided by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation in Libya. The entire cooperation process demonstrated Walmech’s end-to-end service, from tender response and equipment customization to logistics delivery, ensuring efficient project progress.
III. Vibro Road Roller & Tire Roller Customer Feedback
Libyan customers have given highly positive feedback on Walmech vibratory rollers, praising their core technologies such as the new vibratory drum design, hydraulic transmission system, and pneumatic shifting mechanism, which performed exceptionally well in high-temperature and high-altitude conditions.
Compared to other road roller supplier in the same tonnage, Walmech products offer more uniform compaction, higher efficiency, energy savings, and environmental friendliness, significantly reducing vibration hazards, making them particularly suitable for road, bridge, and dam construction projects in Africa.
Customers stated that these machines operate stably in actual projects, have low maintenance costs, and have become the preferred choice for infrastructure construction in Libya. The successful export of these machines has not only enhanced WALMECH international reputation but also earned a good reputation for “Made in China” in Africa. With the deepening of Sino-African cooperation, customers look forward to more customized equipment supplies in the future to support more big road roller projects.
