Equipment

Getting consistent samples of hot mix asphalt (HMA) from the loadout area can be difficult if random ground personnel use shovels to gather imprecise bucket-fulls from the top of the […]

Know your legal limits, as well as your untapped potential, for sUAS in your asphalt business When the use of small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS)—drones, in layman’s terms—first cropped up […]

Astec, Inc., Chattanooga, has test-fired the largest burner that it has manufactured since entering the burner market in 2003. The company built the long-nose Phoenix® Talon burner, rated at 150 […]

As we discussed in the Vol.9, No.3 issue of AsphaltPro, liquid asphalt cement (AC) prices have seen a most welcome decline as petroleum prices have decreased during 2015. The article […]

You may know that Charlie Blalock and his sons formed a company called Charles Blalock & Sons, Inc., in 1963 in Sevier County, Tennessee. This past year, the company purchased […]

Asphalt storage terminals are tasked with moving massive amounts of liquid during any given operational period. Just like their end-user clientele, terminals must offload incoming stocks of liquid asphalt, meter […]

Butler Brothers Supplies tests spiral shaft design for washing, moving aggregate material Seeking out replacement parts that aren’t genuine factory replacement parts can be a risky move if producers don’t […]