Producer Profiles

Becoming responsible for the maintenance of a stretch of highway is a big undertaking. Becoming responsible for the entire interstate system in Dallas County is even bigger. IIPL USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of ITNL out of India, has been in business for three years and started its first contract last September in Tyler, Texas. […]

When Louisiana began to allow asphalt producers to blend polymers in-line, Diamond B Construction quickly jumped on board. “Essentially when we add the polymer and your PG64 becomes better than a PG70,” he said. “Instead of buying PG70 straight from a supplier, we create our own.” To truly benefit from this new opportunity, Diamond B […]

Ever since its formation in the 1950s, Coastal Bridge has focused on expansion and improvement. As the name would imply, Coastal Bridge got its start building bridges in the 1950s before expanding to soil work in the ’70s and asphalt in the late ’80s. Today, Coastal Bridge employs between 350 and 400 people in the […]

The benefits of the asphalt industry to today’s world are endless. As a cost-effective solution for many construction and design needs, asphalt recycling in particular allows businesses to save on materials while allowing citizens to save billions of tax dollars. The team at Southwind RAS LLC, with headquarters in Bartlett, Illinois, and 22 locations in […]

Most jobs require a certain level of coordination—among crewmembers, with the plant, with the client, etc. Martin Marietta took effective coordination to a whole new level with a recent project along College Avenue in Fort Collins, Colorado, and its hard work paid off: the project won this year’s Urban Highway Resurfacing Award from the Colorado […]

What started in the ’80s as a father and son sealing team has adapted to age, growth and regional demand for Earnest (Earnie) R. Beckner, Jr. He and his father, Ray Beckner, Sr., began Beckner’s Asphalt Pavement Maintenance in 1984 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Around 1992, they dissolved the company and moved north, where Earnie […]

At E.T. Simonds Materials’ Campbell Hill, Illinois, location, the company had been operating a 1967 model Stansteel batch plant for over 30 years. Beck Simonds, president, shared why it was time for an upgrade. “The primary reason was due to the age of the existing plant, and we wanted to do more recycling.” While the […]