Asphalt Plants, Equipment & Applications

Spain-based technology firm Minsait is to launch its smart city solution in two European cities: Helsinki and Antwerp.
Its Onesait Digital Platform for Cities was chosen in a competition, Select for Cities, which is part of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 innovation project.
The open-data platform utilises the Internet of Things to integrate and manage data from multiple sources and devices using predictive models, helping city authorities make informed decisions about transit and generating useful info

A Benninghoven asphalt mixing plant, Wirtgen milling machines and Vögele pavers have been busy rehabilitating the legendary Sachsenring race track in Germany’s Ore Mountains so that it continues to meet FIM (Fédération de Motocyclisme International) requirements. The demanding project taken on by the Wirtgen Group plant and machinery entailed replacing the famous race track’s surface and binder courses. While Wirtgen cold milling machines created a level base true to line and level through precision

Major global projects such as the UAE’s Ras Al Khaimah Road and the third airport in Istanbul require the supply of high-quality asphalt, and lots of it. Liam McLoughlin reports. We need to produce quality asphalt, and high volumes of it,” according to Adnan Elmasri, operations manager for Top Link Contracting & General Transportation, based in Dubai. Top Link, an established contractor in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, is providing mix for a new highway that will greatly alleviate the traffic on the major thorough

Quarry operators in East Africa will be interested in news that the Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA) has signed a ETB13.2billion (US$0.48bn) agreement with contractors to upgrade various national roads from gravel to asphalt.

The upgrading of the roads, which will require huge quantities of aggregates, is part of the Second Growth and Transformation Plan and would be conducted on eight road projects.

ERA communication directorate director Samson Wondimu told local media that the projects cover 749.37k

Responding to rising demand for coloured asphalt across southeast England, Aggregate Industries is introducing its innovative SuperColour range to its Hertford Express asphalt plant in Bayfordbury, near London, England.

The introduction of the SuperColour collection of distinctly coloured asphalts at the Hertford Express site comes after the range’s successful deployment at Aggregate Industries’ Doncaster and Bristol plants.

The move is part of the British building materials supplier heavyweight’s ong

Rapid International has recently supplied KwaMhlanga Group based in Gauteng province, South Africa, with a new Rapidmix 400CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant for production of road subbase. The previous production process deployed by KwaMhlanga Group, a large, diverse, civil engineering contracting group, which operates in the construction, slip form concrete, continuous mixing and paving, plant hire and property development sectors, had resulted in inaccurate blending of emulsions and cement into

There’s much that is new this year from global asphalt plant manufacturers and bitumen product specialists, including a major asphalt supply contract at a leading international airport. Guy Woodford reports.

Shell Bitumen has brought together its engineering, innovation and R&D talent at a new state-of-the-art technology centre in Bangalore, India, with the aim of developing bitumens of the future.
The bitumen sector giant’s facility is situated within the new Shell Technology Centre Bangalore (STCB), a

Aggregate Industries, a leading UK building materials supplier, has relocated its asphalt plant in Daviot in the Scottish Highlands to a prime new Inverness city centre location, as part of ongoing plans to improve customer services.

The new state-of-the-art facility is located within Longman Industrial Estate - just five minutes’ drive from central Inverness. This location will make it easier and quicker for busy customers to access the plant by offering 24 hour service by request. Additionally, the new