World Champions (Part 2): Road Markings

When somewhere in the world a street, parking lot or runway needs to be marked with lanes, it's almost sure to be done by a machine built in the small town of Rellingen north of Hamburg. The 60-year-old family-owned company Hofmann Marking Systems has built its economic success from lines on the road, and the machines for painting them. It's a more complicated process than you might think. How do you paint solid lines vs. dashes, for example? And can it be done in the pouring rain? Report by Hagen Tober

DW-World | December 16, 2008

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