Equipment

As the construction season winds down in some northern parts of the country, pavement maintenance season heats up in other parts. No matter how much work you have on the books for the remainder of the season, you’re probably looking at the deals original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are rolling out to finish 2018 and help […]

Vögele’s Passive Remixing Insert with an Active Remixing Module can help avoid segregation of your asphalt mix. Here’s how it works.

This month’s product gallery headline felt a little odd as I typed it because the product gallery typically focuses on robust pieces of iron. I noticed, though, the news releases I’ve received this spring and early summer have been for the “accessories” to paving. You know what I mean: putty knives and temperature guns. Of […]

Discussing the asphalt plant and aggregate operations this month includes a look at trucking. MyLogic Inc., headquartered in Pennsylvania, has released a free app called Dump Truck Math, which is available on iOS and Android devices, to help estimators, foremen, and truck drivers streamline simple hauling calculations. The app started as an Excel spreadsheet MyLogic […]

The latest new and innovative products for asphalt paving contractors

Do yourself a favor and make sliding out the extensions a quick-and-easy measurement to check during paving. Clean the extensions thoroughly, and then use a tape measure to mark each inch along the length of the extension.

World of Asphalt/AGG1 2018 is here, so original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are hard at work putting the final engineering touches on products they’ll introduce in Houston this month. One of those OEMs is Hamm, with North American headquarters in Antioch, Tennessee, introducing a new concept for fuel-efficient compactive efforts. Another is Ammann Group with headquarters […]