Tag: asphalt
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Notes from Asphalt in Depth
Jun 07, 2011
Several members of the MWV Asphalt Innovations team attended NAPA’s Asphalt in Depth seminar last week. You may have spoken with Mike O’Leary at the Evotherm booth or met Courtney Rice and Jenna Michael in one of the sessions. Several speakers discussed Warm Mix Asphalt: Matt Corrigan, FHWA, gave a national overview, Bob Frank of […]
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The Taming of the Shingles
Mar 08, 2011
I recently worked with Century Asphalt in Texas who evaluated using Evotherm 3G chemistry to get Recycled Asphalt Shingles (RAS) and RAP back into his mix design. The contractor was forced to take out all the RAS and lower the RAP percentage in his HMA design when workability and uniform compaction became an issue on […]
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Evotherm in SF
Mar 08, 2011
It was a damp 55 degrees and foggy at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area where Evotherm was used to pave a test strip in the center of the park. The Golden Gate bridge was visible in the background as paving crews from Ghilotti Brothers Contractors paved the strip using Evotherm DAT. At the job […]
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Winning at the Track
Oct 12, 2010
Jim Tartak, General Manager of Carolina Motorsports, recently took us on a tour of his kart track and spoke about the nuances of kart racing and why consistency on the track is so important to driver safety and to performance. “The racing karts do not have suspensions, making it very physically demanding on the driver […]
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Congratulations to KBDJ & Industrial Asphalt
Oct 12, 2010
This year’s Greater Austin Business Award for Take On Traffic went to Industrial Asphalt’s KBDJ Quarry. The quarry provides raw materials to TxDOT for the maintenance and construction of roadways. KBDJ’s sister company, Industrial Asphalt, built the region’s first “green” highway, a three mile stretch of SH 71 near the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Evotherm was […]
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One magic drop
Sep 02, 2010
With Evotherm, aggregate is easily coated with asphalt.
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