Asphalt Plants, Equipment & Applications

Deutz’s Moroccan subsidiary, Magideutz, is relocating its genset manufacturing and has established a new production site in Sapino. This is now the central production site for high-performance power generation equipment for the northern African market. The manufacturing processes at the plant have been totally realigned and set new standards in terms of quality, productivity, and health and safety.

Tarmac has launched its 2020 Innovation Challenge to reduce carbon emissions in the building materials industry.

An Ammann ABC 140 SolidBatch asphalt-mixing plant has helped connect local communities in Thailand to a major new highway in Southeast Asia.

CEMEX has launched Go Quarry Link, a programme designed to improve the speed and efficiency of product pick up for aggregates customers.

Shell Bitumen has entered into a partnership with Tiki Tar Industries to sell bitumen to customers in the pavement sector, including national and state highways, airport runways and village roads in India.

The global asphalt plant market is full of innovation.

Hanson has invested more than £7 million (€7.74mn) in a new asphalt plant at its Allington site near Maidstone, Kent, South-East England, to improve service to its customers and increase production capacity, sustainability and efficiency.

The global bitumen market is estimated to be worth US$112.01bn by 2026 – a rise of 45.6% on its 2018 value of $76.91bn.