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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.
January 2, 2024
Asphalt's Top 30 Editor's Choice Awards 2024 (resized)
Milling
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.
December 4, 2023
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Milling
How Iowa State University Repaved 4.5 Acre Parking Lot Using 100% Recycled Asphalt
Colorbiotics Innovations
Massive project only had a week to get it done, and they managed to do it using the asphalt that was already there.
November 4, 2023
Invigorate Plus re-binder is a bio-based liquid topical that seals millings to create a smooth, final surface.
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.
October 19, 2023
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Jobsite Equipment
What You Need To Know About Mixing In IBC Totes
INDCO Inc.
An intermediate bulk container might be convenient for shipping and storage, but not that great for mixing. Here's what to know about using a portable mixer with an IBC tote onsite.
August 8, 2023
What To Know About Mixing With IBC Totes - Intermediate Bulk Containers
Mix Design
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.
May 11, 2023
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Material Processing & Debris Handling
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.
May 10, 2023
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Mix Design
How To Make Pavement Cooler Through Reflectivity
BioSpan Technologies Inc.
Conventional dark pavements contribute to urban heat islands as they absorb 80–95% of sunlight and warm the local air. Cool pavements are made with different materials to increase albedo, thereby reducing heat transfer to the surface.
May 6, 2023
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Seal Coating
Enhancing the Science of Pavement Preservation
In Minnesota’s most densely populated county, the public works department works hand in hand with the state DOT to expand research on pavement preservation.
January 21, 2023
Asphalt Testing Solutions & Engineering are analyzing both control and treated core samples. Additional core samples will be taken and studied over the next two years.
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.
January 12, 2023
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Material Processing & Debris Handling
How To Build More Sustainable, Greener Roads
Coast Pavement Services
Using bio-based binders and rejuvenators to lessen our dependence on petroleum, lengthen the lifespan of our pavement, and protect our planet.
December 31, 2022
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Mix Design
Asphalt Additives: The Plant-Based Revolution
Colorbiotics Innovations
Out in the farmlands of Iowa, business and science team up to deliver innovative RAP additives derived from the versatile soy bean.
October 3, 2022
A crew on a parking lot project in Indianapolis prepares to lay asphalt that includes Invigorate Additive.
Mix Design
Five Major Benefits of Rubber Modified Asphalt
How can this sustainable product, created from recycled used tires, directly impact your business and your customers? Here are five ways that you can see immediate results.
September 22, 2022
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Mix Design
Invigorate Revive SA Maintenance Treatment
Colorbiotics Innovations
Revive SA revives oxidized asphalt pavement and improves long-term durability.
June 16, 2022
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Mix Design
Best Practices for Storage and Handling Asphalt Emulsions
From storage tanks to temperature regulation, handling emulsions takes mindful calculations to achieve a desired product.
December 3, 2021
Horizontal tanks offer the advantage of being less susceptible to power lines because of their low profile, easier to recirculate and easier to drain completely.
Mix Design
How a Big Box Store Brings Recycled Plastic Bags Full Circle
The Dow Chemical Company
This paving technique pilot project, recycled approximately 12,500 pounds of plastic collected from Meijer customers through in-store recycling bins.
November 11, 2021
Rieth-Riley, produced the final hot-mix asphalt and paved the Meijer parking lot and gas station.
Mix Design
Validating Innovative Pavement Performance
Cargill ANOVA Asphalt Solutions
Major effort underway to unify testing data and criteria validate innovative pavement performance across the 50 states.
May 22, 2020
There is a coordinated effort by Cargill, the National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University and Minnesota’s MnROAD partnership to bring standardization and data equivalency across different pavement performance testing methods employed by individual states.
Mix Design
What are Pavement Rejuvenators & Why are they Important?
The industry is working hard to find ways to reverse the impact of aging on asphalt performance while also increasing sustainability
November 18, 2019
Eventually, pavements breakdown beyond the point in which a surface rejuvenator can be used and the road must be resurfaced or rebuilt. This leads to an oversupply of milled asphalt. Using a rejuvenator in the mix provides an opportunity to utilize the RAP and increases its value to the road builder.
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