Jul 25, 2017
For the 2017 paving season, we dive into an essential area of project management for asphalt professionals: safe and timely delivery of hot-mix or warm-mix asphalt (HMA/WMA) to the paving […]
Sep 27, 2016
To deliver mix with minimal material segregation, drivers—and plant operators—are instructed to load haul trucks in a three-drop method under the silos. You’ve see this illustrated in AsphaltPro before. The […]
Aug 23, 2016
Asphalt producers and contractors need to measure and document the temperature of hot mix asphalt (HMA) for optimum quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA). To that end, the team at SYSTEMS […]
Mar 07, 2016
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 […]
Oct 07, 2015
Learning to use blending and loadout controls at the asphalt plant is only one portion of today’s plant operator’s job. AsphaltPro asked a number of controls and plant OEMs to […]
Sep 07, 2015
For this issue that focuses on conveying material, let’s take a look at an asphalt plant control that helps make loadout easier for the production team. Gencor Industries of Orlando, […]