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The Top 25 Pavement Maintenance & Reconstruction Products 2024
After a few years hiatus, the Top 25 Pavement Maintenance Products is back and will be better than ever!
Sustainability
How Asphalt Pavement Industry Will Decarbonize
FCP Video Library
By the Numbers: Who is Green Asphalt?
FCP Video Library
Astec Introduces ReMix CCPR System at World of Asphalt
Asphalt Plants
How Principio Asphalt Grew During Historic Labor Shortage
Asphalt
World of Asphalt Preview Guide 2024
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Asphalt
2024 State of the Road Building Industry: Into the Unknown
A year ago, there was a growing sense that 2023 would see some form of economic recession, but that didn't happen. This contributes to a greater sense of uncertainty as experts look toward 2024. The takeaway? Be prepared for anything.
Asphalt Recycling
Green Asphalt: Be Humble and Kick Asphalt
One asphalt plant is doing what many consider as the unthinkable: producing asphalt mixes from 100% reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), and they can convert any asphalt plant to do the same. Extensive testing says it works, but changing opinions is hard.
Sponsored
Weiler P385C Raises the Standard for Commercial Pavers
The P385C raises the standard with more power, improved screed heat system, variable speed conveyors and augers and more robust conveyor drive system.
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Asphalt
Astec Expands Rock to Road Strategy at World of Asphalt 2024
Five new products and product features will be on display at Astec's booth #1263 where attendees will get a first-hand look at innovative additions to crushing, paving, and milling.
Asphalt Recycling
Komplet K-JC 604 Jaw Crusher
This machine features a 23- x 16-in. jaw crusher fitted with an integrated vibrating feeder.
Asphalt Recycling
Komplet K-IC 70 Impact Crusher
Powered by a 100-hp Doosan Tier 4 final engine, the impact crusher can be used for crushing and stockpiling in diverse recycling applications.
Asphalt Plants
Tips for Buying or Upgrading an Asphalt Plant
Are you an asphalt paving contractor working on blacktop, parking lots, commercial, and/or residential? Have you've ever considered owning your own asphalt production facility? Depending on your size and scope, it might be time to take the plunge!
Asphalt
How To Make Warm Mix Asphalt Work At Your Plant
Developed in the 1990s, Warm Mix Asphalt is anything but a new technology. However, there's still a fair amount of stigma associated with it in the road building industry, despite the Federal Highway Administration's pivot in 2010.
Top 30 Editor’s Choice
Submit New, Innovative Products for Asphalt Contractor's 2024 Top 30
Asphalt Contractor’s 2024 Top 30 Editor’s Choice Products award highlights the Top 30 innovations and technologies available to help asphalt contractors and producers work more efficiently, safely, sustainably, and profitably.
Sponsored
In 2024, LeeBoy is Celebrating Our 60th Anniversary! 🥳
LeeBoy has 60 years of success in driving innovation, quality and progress. We are honored to be a part of this great industry.
Sustainability
Fed Announces $384 Million Low Carbon Asphalt Investment
Out of the GSA's announced $2 billion, which included 150 different construction projects using low embodied carbon materials, a significant portion of it will directly impact the asphalt and road building industry.
Asphalt Recycling
How Iowa State University Repaved 4.5 Acre Parking Lot Using 100% Recycled Asphalt
Massive project only had a week to get it done, and they managed to do it using the asphalt that was already there.
Training & Education
Asphalt Contractor's 2023-2024 Training Guide
This guide offers training and education opportunities for contractors, a schedule of both in-person and remote sessions to expand employee skills and grow their value to your clients and your company.
Sustainability
The Asphalt Industry Isn't A Solution To Our Waste Plastic Problem
A new study released by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines potential uses for the growing waste plastic problem and casts some doubt on any potential role it can play in asphalt pavement mix designs.
Construction Technology
What Can ChatGPT AI Do For Asphalt Contractors?
The rise of "A.I." to the level of household name means everyone has an opinion, but true expertise is harder to come by. What can these algorithms do for the likes of our industry? Can they help you answer your asphalt or business questions?
Asphalt
Florida Legislators Pass Law to Allow Radioactive Waste in Road Pavement
The Republican controlled legislature in the state of Florida challenged a 30 year rule kept by the EPA that disallows phosphogypsum, a radioactive byproduct of the fertilizer industry, as a material for road pavement mixes.
Additives
An Argument for Increased RAP Percentages Nationwide
While the demand for stricter environmental standards grows, piles of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) do too. Policy changes are needed before state and federal projects can accept the higher mix percentages.
Compaction Equipment
"Building Better Roads" the Focus of BOMAG CONEXPO Showcase
Through a combination of new sustainable machines, smart equipment, and other advanced technologies BOMAG's focus at the big show is all about road building. Their booth will feature more than 40 machines.
Asphalt
What Everyone in the Asphalt Industry Needs to Know About EPDs
If you are a producer, paver, or even a maintenance professional, NAPA's Director of Sustainable Pavements, Joseph Shacat wants you to be ahead of the curve when it comes to Environmental Product Declarations.
Asphalt
3 Big Takeaways from NAPA Annual 2023
At the National Asphalt Pavement Association's Annual meeting, this year in Miami, FL., some common themes emerged from the various sessions, committees, and meetings over the five day South Beach event.
Asphalt
Astec to Debut New Road Building Solutions at CONEXPO 2023
The company reveals some of what they have in store for contractors ahead of the 2023 CONEXPO/CON-AGG show.
Sponsored
Weiler P385C Raises the Standard for Commercial Pavers
The P385C raises the standard with more power, improved screed heat system, variable speed conveyors and augers and more robust conveyor drive system.
Asphalt Plants
How to Improve Asphalt Plant Emissions and Efficiency
It can be a difficult task to navigate the complexity of emissions science as experts, manufacturers, and the regulatory side of the industry pushes for ever stricter standards.
Asphalt
2023 State of the Road Building Industry: The Green Dream
A year under the IIJA, and a few months after the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, the industry still struggles to solve issues with labor shortages even as supply chain and material problems have seen some improvements. Read the full report here!
Business
4 Ways to Grow Your Small Business Utilizing Risk
Entrepreneurs know that the work of managing a business is a constant balancing act between risk and reward.
Asphalt
How To Build More Sustainable, Greener Roads
Using bio-based binders and rejuvenators to lessen our dependence on petroleum, lengthen the lifespan of our pavement, and protect our planet.
Planers & Milling Machines
Wirtgen Updates F-Series Compact Milling Machine Cabins
At the start of 2022 the Wirtgen group relaunched its compact milling machine line with a completely redesigned generation. Now they set their sights on major improvements to operator ergonomics with the new "comfort cabin".
Automation Systems
Wirtgen AutoTrac Now Available for WR Series Machines
The cold recycling and stabilization equipment will now achieve higher efficiencies with this automation technology.
Asphalt
The Tech to Maximize Your RAP Usage
Some step-by-step ways to help any asphalt contractor or plant manager take their RAP percentages to the next level.
Digging Deeper
Investigating I-375 and The Legacy of Urban Renewal in Detroit
Millions of dollars in new funding are available to states for infrastructure projects, one of the most highly touted is the “Reconnecting Communities” pilot program that seeks to undo transportation initiatives that negatively impacted neighborhoods.
Construction News
NAPA Adds Net-Zero Climate Partners Two Weeks in a Row
With the NAPA Annual meeting only a few months away, the "Road Forward" initiative continues to grow its ranks. In back-to-back weeks the national organization has added new sponsors and material producers.
Additives
Asphalt Additives: The Plant-Based Revolution
Out in the farmlands of Iowa, business and science team up to deliver innovative RAP additives derived from the versatile soy bean.
Asphalt Recycling
Colorbiotics to Showcase Soybean Oil-based Asphalt
Biomag Easy Pave is designed for projects that warrant a paved surface, but that do not warrant the depth and durability of a hot-mix pavement application.