Bitelli was an Italian construction machinery manufacturer. The firm was founded in ? and taken over by Caterpillar in 2000 as part of there exspansion plans to offer a full lineup of construction machinery. Bitelli built a full range of road rollers, crawler and wheel type road pavers and crawler and wheel type road planers/recyclers for removing the old surface or re-profiling the carriageway. There is a digital e-book on Bitelli being prepared for release in early 2012 and it is anticipated that this will be supplied to the Historic Construction Machinery Association in America, for anyone seeking comprehensive information on this company. It will feature digital scans of most of the products built by Bitelli.