No matter your taste in music, you probably know it as the chart-topping hit song by English band, Sade, in the 1980s: “Smooth Operator.” But this is also a title that only few can wear proudly every year at the Tennessee Road Builders Association (TRBA) Annual Meeting. This year, contractor LoJac Inc. was awarded the […]
Asphalt producer, Axeon, and Contractor, V.E. Whitehurst, are excited about most projects, but their recent completion of a project at Williston Municipal Airport in Williston (near Gainesville), Florida, was particularly significant. The Airport once served as a back-up facility to Eglin Field for Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle’s training efforts for the Tokyo Raid that occurred […]
Ingevity and Evotherm exhibit at World of Asphalt 2016 in Nashville.
The National Asphalt Paving Association hosts their annual meeting this weekend in La Quinta, California. Dave Yates, Bryan Pecht, Jim Lynch, and Craig Reynolds from the Evotherm team will be attending. Thinking of improving your RAP utilization this year? Have a backlog that you'd like to get an early start on? Need improved compaction with some stiff […]
Author: Will Cabell
The Asphalt Pavement Alliance produced a new video highlighting how "roads are about more than getting from place to place. They help us realize dreams of far off places, opportunities, and adventure. The engineers and crews that design and build roads are dream builders, helping us all go farther. This celebrates you, the dream builders." […]
Thank you to all our customers, friends, and extended family in the asphalt industry. As we close out 2015, we'd like to thank you for giving us a wonderful year full of both challenge and success. You have let us try new products in your plants and on your jobs, sometimes more than once! You've […]
Atlantic Coast Asphalt in Jacksonville, FL, utilized Evotherm to combine workability and performance with a high-RAP asphalt mix. Axeon supplied PG 58-22 asphalt terminally blended with Evotherm that was mixed with 40% RAP. Beginning at 7 AM, Atlantic Coast Asphalt loaded the first of 19 trucks. Production temperatures began at 330F and were reduced in stages […]
Macaroni and cheese appears at every Thanksgiving dinner at my house. NCAT Director Randy West must have had the holidays on his mind when talking about RAP and WMA with Equipment World magazine. "They go together, like peanut butter and jelly or macaroni and cheese," he said referring to the "excellent" rut and crack resistance […]
Author: Heather Dolan