Tag: liquid asphalt

Roadbuilding
Associated Asphalt to supply Fla. ports in Puma deal
Puma Energy and Associated Asphalt have signed agreements to supply asphalt to Florida port terminals. Associated Asphalt will take over retail asphalt marketing for Trafigura, Puma’s largest shareholder, at Jacksonville, Cape Canaveral and Port Everglades. Puma will handle the supply chain into those terminals. Associated Asphalt will also be responsible for supply and marketing at […]
January 24, 2018
Puma Energy
Roadbuilding
Smooth Going
How new technology is changing in the quest for smooth pavements
October 2, 2013
On S.H. 130, Central Texas Toll Road, Roadtec MTVs (Shuttle Buggies) feed pavers with skis with sensors providing input for automatic-leveling controls.
Roadbuilding
Getting Smoothness and Density Just Right
An Iowa-based contractor has won 80 percent of the available bonus payments on a successful 18-mile, two-lane asphalt paving project near Grinnell, Iowa.
November 12, 2012
Manatts ran this paver at about 28 feet per minute, which helped produce a smooth ride on the pavement.
Roadbuilding
Road Science
Low-energy asphalt mixes reduce viscosity — without the heat.
August 5, 2012
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Roadbuilding
Applications & Innovations
Recycled asphalt shingles are an acquired taste.
July 3, 2012
Roadbuilding
Road Science
Asphalt emulsions mix oil with water.
June 9, 2012
Asphalt emulsions – here sprayed in advance of chip spreader – are essential to nearly every aspect of pavement preservation.
Roadbuilding
Kirk Landers — Editor Emeritus
The Great Recession is creating mega-changes in the U.S. construction market, and in any historic market shift, there will be new opportunities for those who are aware and willing.
December 4, 2011
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Roadbuilding
Road Science
Now, more than ever, thin open-graded friction courses (OGFCs) are driving the market for drainable, high-friction, noise-attenuating asphalt mixes.
September 7, 2011
A thin crumb, rubber-modified, open-graded wearing course is placed on California Highway 1 near Fort Bragg; the mix incorporated a warm-mix additive to ensure workability, following the two-hour drive to the Pacific Coast from the plant.
Roadbuilding
RoadScience
Some top picks from Transportation Research Board’s papers presented at its 90th annual meeting in D.C.
April 1, 2011
In daylight, lighted pavement markers resemble raised pavement markers as they define the adjacent three left-turn lanes in Sugarland, Texas.
Roadbuilding
RoadScience
Some top picks from Transportation Research Board’s papers presented at its 90th annual meeting in D.C.
April 1, 2011
In daylight, lighted pavement markers resemble raised pavement markers as they define the adjacent three left-turn lanes in Sugarland, Texas.
Roadbuilding
RoadScience
Some top picks from Transportation Research Board’s papers presented at its 90th annual meeting in D.C.
April 1, 2011
In daylight, lighted pavement markers resemble raised pavement markers as they define the adjacent three left-turn lanes in Sugarland, Texas.
Roadbuilding
Highway Contractor
Across the country, paving material suppliers andcontractors alike mining new opportunities with thin hot mix asphalt overlay technologies.
March 1, 2011
Proven to hold up, thin hot mix asphalt overlay as experimented with and developed over the past two generations is now an accepted -- and growing -- technique for pavement preservation. As road and highway agencies struggle to do more work with less money, thin overlays are increasingly answering the need.
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