AsphaltPro: The Blog

We’ve discussed this effective safety idea in the pages of AsphaltPro magazine before. You can find tips on this concept in the online training course we prepared with industry consultant John Ball. This month, The Lane Construction Corp. of West Columbia, South Carolina, received a NAPA 2017 Asphalt Operations Safety Innovation Award for it. Because […]

Last week, the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) and Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) published its 8th annual report on the use of recycled materials and warm-mix asphalt. In 2017, nearly 40 percent of asphalt pavement was produced as warm-mix asphalt, totaling 147.4 million tons nationwide. That’s nearly an 800 percent increase since NAPA and FHWA […]

What are you doing today to ensure you have the crew you need tomorrow? Or next year? Or 10 years from now? You may think, “I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it,” but the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) offers three strategies you can use today to ensure your company’s survival tomorrow. First, […]

Check out PreservationPro, a new supplement to AsphaltPro Magazine, to learn about the latest tips and equipment for your pavement preservation jobs. Today’s pavements take a terrible beating. They broil in the summer sun and experience frigid temperatures in winter. Motorists overcrowd them and trucks overload them. Pavements serve until they fall apart, and then there’s […]

We’ve all heard the saying, put your money where your mouth is. We get the implication to step up and invest in what we “say” we believe in and work toward. I want to challenge you with this month’s note to think about what actions you’ve taken toward advancing the future of your asphalt industry. […]

Although the logical next step to setting up a plant might be to establish financing, completing the loan application required knowing what plant they’d be buying (and what it would cost), as well as where it would go (and what that property would cost). One of the first things Texas Cordia’s CEO Yara Corbitt and […]