Last week, we participated in our 2nd WMA job with Colorado DOT. Suncor Energy provided the 70/-28 PMAC with Evotherm for a job on US50. The mix is a surface overlay with 20% RAP and 1% lime. This is also the first time this district has used RAP. The wind gusted over 30 mph and […]
Andrew Crow, VP of Asphalt Innovations, presented Everett Crews with an Asphalt Rocks guitar signed by the band members to commemorate all the work, technological advances, research, blood, sweat, and tears he’s contributed to Evotherm warm mix asphalt. I even caught him trying it out – take a peek over on the Evotherm YouTube channel […]
Evotherm was used on a one kilometer trial stretch on State Highway 5 north of Godhra, India. Ambient air temperature started at 34 °C and reached 42 °C. During production, a significant reduction in the burner opening (around 50% with HMA to 15% with Evotherm) was observed, indicating substantially lower fuel consumption. Larson &Toubro’s field […]
Congratulations to Chris Davis at Sanders Brothers. He is the big winner in our Tax Day subscriber drawing. We’ll be sending him a new iPad2 for keeping up with Evotherm here at Behind the Screed. There are lots of other winners as well. Steve Jones at Marathon, Harry Thomas at Dunn Construction, Richard Labelle at […]
Participants in the Asphalt Institutes’s EPIC program toured MWV last Thursday during the AI meeting here in Charleston. The group went through the Asphalt Innovations laboratories where the Evotherm gang conducts research, development, and testing. They also saw the manufacturing facilities across the road. Evotherm is made here in the USA! Thanks for stopping by […]
Now that you know all about Evotherm chemistry from last week’s video, how does it make a difference? What’s all the fuss about? Why are people so excited? In the final episode, we travel from the laboratory to the jobsite for a look at compaction. The complete set of videos can be found on our […]
MWV is excited to announce that Evotherm is now a Caltrans-approved warm mix asphalt technology. The approval submittal included an overview of the technology, including how the delivery equipment will meet the State’s Material Plant Quality Program (MPQP) requirements. During Evotherm’s introduction, laboratory and full-scale field experiments have been undertaken to compare its performance to […]
The third video in our four-part series focuses on Evotherm chemistry. How is it related to the surfactant chemistry video from last week? How does it help asphalt coat aggregate better? Press play to find out.
Welcome to all attending the Asphalt Institute meeting in Charleston this week. We’re looking forward to having the EPIC participants tour the Evotherm laboratories and plant on Thursday afternoon. If you are in town and want to talk Evotherm, please drop a quick note to mailto://[email protected]. We’ll have several people downtown at the meeting who’d […]
After a meeting with Peckham Industries last week, Gary Metcalf, Vice President of Peckham, was kind enough to have us visit a paving job near their office. As we arrived the single roller was giving the binder course a couple of final passes and the paver was driving home. The crew headed to the truck […]