Plant Controls

Larson Electronics offers some tips for picking the best commercial surveillance cameras.

Maintain scales properly to avoid scale breakdowns during the height of paving season.

Storing liquid AC at temperatures above that particular performance grade
asphalt’s temperature design range will burn off the material’s light ends. When this happens,
not only will the tank release blue smoke, but you will also be damaging the liquid AC.

Not every project a contractor takes on involves a paving crew on a highway or rural route. Sometimes a multi-month project moving equipment, earth, mix and materials happens right at the asphalt production site. For example, the team of Ajax Materials Corporation, headquartered near Detroit in Troy, Michigan, offers a case study in how to […]

The team from Heatec discusses one solution for monitoring multiple tanks across multiple facilities with a case study at C.W. Matthews Contracting Co. Inc., headquartered in Marietta, Georgia.

How to use asphalt plant control add-ons to make operation easier while reducing downtime

When its plant at Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, had reached the ripe old age of five years, management at Highway Materials Inc. (HMI) a division of The DePaul Group, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, revamped its inner workings. The hybrid ALmix/Meeker dratch plant had served them well, producing mix at up to 500 TPH with 900 tons of […]