2024 Corporate Profiles Supplement
BY AsphaltPro Staff
Editor’s Note: The staff of AsphaltPro magazine is not responsible for the opinions expressed in the Corporate Profiles supplement. Statements made have not been verified thus producers/contractors are still encouraged to use best practices when implementing new advice or making purchasing decisions.
Since 2021, the staff at AsphaltPro magazine has brought this annual overview of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to the asphalt audience. This year, it’s a little different. We’ve still offered OEMs and service providers a chance to put their information in front of you, but this time, you get to hear from selected customers who have implemented the technology in their businesses.
Asphalt Lane is an activity book, available at theasphaltpro.com/asphalt-lane/, for children in preschool through elementary school, designed to give a basic overview of how an asphalt road is made. This booklet shares a great message about the community partners right down the road.
We posed specific questions to the partners who support us, thus your operations, about how they have helped a specific producer or contractor enhance its business or achieve its sustainability goals. In last year’s supplement, we acknowledged OEMs are invested in helping contractors and producers reach the net zero goals the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) had enunciated in its The Road Forward initiative.
What we as an industry need to remember is we’ve been moving toward clean air goals long before legislators, associations and environmental justice warriors dreamed them up. And OEMs have been walking hand in hand with producers (and contractors) for decades to make a long-lasting asphalt pavement that represents a sustainable system. Perpetual pavements exist because responsible mix designers, producers and laydown specialists have paved the way toward an environmentally responsible pavement system. In the pages to follow, advertising partners who took the time to participate in this year’s Corporate Profiles supplement show how they’re still walking hand-in-hand with you toward that goal.
This time, you get to hear from selected customers who have implemented the technology in their businesses.
Alongside the production zone, our industry looks toward sustaining its workforce. This is an area where AsphaltPro magazine is your direct partner. We’re not only bringing how-to, technical information to you 11 times a year in print and digital format, but we’re also offering tips and guidance for your workforce development and training goals. Check out our back-to-basics online training course, Asphalt Paving 101, designed to help you onboard new workers and give refresher training to veteran workers coming back after the down-season. This course is the first of a series we intend to offer to help paving contractors build up their employees for more excellent performance in the field.
Also, look at the activity book, Asphalt Lane, we prepared to engage the next generation’s imagination. If your company hosts field trips or provides materials for the local library, this activity book makes a great addition to the marketing kit. Don’t forget about career day at middle and high school programs. It’s up to us to remind the communities where we operate that a career in asphalt roadbuilding is lucrative, rewarding and part of the sustainability movement.
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