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Vögele’s Passive Remixing Insert with an Active Remixing Module can help avoid segregation of your asphalt mix. Here’s how it works.

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.

The team at PSS has developed the RoadQuake® RAPTOR™ Rumble Strip Handling Machine that fits on the front of a work truck to transport, deploy, realign and retrieve RoadQuake 2F Temporary Portable Rumble Strips (TPRS). Here’s how it works.

If you need to take liquid asphalt cement (AC) samples from your 4-inch or 6-inch line that feeds liquid AC to your mixer, the engineers at Maxam Equipment, Kansas City, Mo., have developed a sampling device to assist you. This in-line capture features an enclosed sampling system to dispense the asphalt into quart or gallon […]

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.

With the increase in polymer-modified asphalts (PMAs) in our industry comes the need to blend polymers into product efficiently. The team at Heatec, an Astec Industries company, Chattanooga, Tennessee, has built the Polymer-blending skid to facilitate the process and offer return for additional blending. Here’s how it works. While the process is “quick” enough that […]

As the industry’s use of warm-mix asphalt (WMA) increases, options for foaming the liquid asphalt cement (AC) meet new technology. The team from Astec Industries, Chattanooga, Tennessee, released the Generation 3 warm-mix system December 2017 to allow producers to make WMA mix designs without chemical additives. Here’s how it works. The Gen3 apparatus is installed […]