Milling

Grooving roads or airport taxiways requires precision work; the team at Diamond Products Ltd. built the PC1504 pavement grinder & groover to take care of that.

Taking the bumps out of roads takes precise work; the team at Diamond Road, located in American Fork, Utah, built the Diamond Road Smoother to perform that precision grinding. Here’s how it works.

Roadtec’s CB-100 Conveyor Broom is designed to clean the surface behind the milling machine, as well as capture fines for use back at the asphalt plant. Here’s how it works.

When an Air Force Base has to close its only runway, it’s all hands on deck to make the project go smoothly. For MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, such an event takes place every 15 years or so for preventive maintenance. In 2016, the existing asphalt pavement had endured 16 years of wear; cracks […]

Along with a new 745 articulated truck, new dozers, a new 986K wheel loader, new work tools and its reinvented cold planers, the team from Caterpillar, Peoria, Illinois, highlighted its technology offerings during CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017. As Paulo Fellin, vice president of global construction and infrastructure, outlined for the trade press prior to the show, all […]

C.W. Matthews Contracting manages RAP with new crushing Two new impact crushers are helping a Georgia road and bridge contractor save money, optimize use of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) in mixes and better manage RAP stockpiles. Readers know RAP combines a high residual asphalt cement (AC) content with aggregate that has already been acquired, permitted, shot, […]

In the summer of 2016, a contractor in Egypt took delivery of a cold in place recycling train from Roadtec in time for a pavement rehabilitation project. With materials delivered to the project site, the crew was able to mill, mix and replace in one continuous operation.