Equipment

This month’s product gallery focuses on equipment and services that are designed to help the bottom line of the asphalt and aggregate producer.

To keep conveyor belts from wearing too soon, cleaning them is a must. The team at Conveyor Components Company, Croswell, Michigan, devised the Model BR brush that affixes to a flat area of the conveyor system to assist in keeping carryback material off the return belt. Here’s how it works. First, the user wires the […]

While some producers in the north already gear up for season shut-down, many asphalt professionals continue to race the calendar for production of tons at this time of year. This month’s product gallery focuses on the most recent plant, lab, and quarry bits and pieces available to help you get those tons efficiently. ADM Asphalt […]

You may have heard of a new asphalt binder parameter for evaluating age-related cracking potential. Pronounced delta tea see, it’s spelled out ΔTc. It’s defined as the numerical difference between the low continuous grade temperature determined from the Bending Beam Rheometer (BBR) stiffness criteria (which is the temperature at which stiffness, S, equals 300 MPa) […]

Charging a hopper in a tight space or in a residential area full of older trees and overhead wires presents paving crew members with a list of safety concerns. The last thing you want is to get an end dump trailer tangled up in live wires. The team at KEITH Manufacturing Co. in Madras, Oregon, […]

Material is dumped into the vibrating hopper. At the end of the hopper, material flows across the 2-step, 5-foot grizzly deck. Smaller material slips between the bars, allowing it to bypass the crusher and be screened first, reducing wear on the impactor. Material that bypasses the impactor is deposited on the crusher discharge conveyor where […]

  Whether it was on display at CONEXPO-CON/AGG in March or released in the past few months in preparation for season startup, new technology and equipment has landed in the asphalt marketplace to enhance your mix-making mojo. AsphaltPro showcases new products and services in the product gallery in each edition of the magazine; this month’s […]