Asphalt Plants, Equipment & Applications

The tender process is commencing for a US$5 billion contract to construct a bridge and a road network of roads in Turkey. The bridge will span the Dardanelles waterway and the project looks likely to attract strong interest from several major international construction firms. The Çanakkale 1915 Bridge will be located at the western end of the Sea of Marmara, a short distance from Çanakkale. The 3.6km long bridge will feature a main span of 2.023km, making it one of the longest suspension bridges in the worl

The Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) and the Committee for European Construction Equipment (CECE) have signed a cooperative agreement. This is intended to help promote visibility for AEM exhibitions worldwide and deliver a positive global business environment for exhibitors as well as visitors.

Sigrid de Vries, CECE secretary general, and Megan Tanel, AEM senior vice president, signed the CECE International Exhibition Partnership Programme agreement during AEM’s recent annual conference of me

Shell Bitumen was chosen as the partner to provide the product for coloured pavements in two Luxembourg tunnels. Luxembourg has a history of world-leading roads and tunnels, with one of the highest rates of investment and some of the best maintained, long-lasting roads in Europe.

A claimed aggregate recycling first and the growth of the sector in European countries including Germany and the UK. Guy Woodford reports.

The claimed world’s largest wet processing plant for construction and demolition waste built by CDE Global for Velde Pukk has recently been showcased at a three-day demonstration event in Sandnes, near Stavanger, Norway.

More than 70 companies from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Tunisia were in attendance at the Velde Pukk site.

The new 300tonnes/hour washing plant

A colourful and informative Equipment Safety Infographic is available for free download from the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) in recognition and support of America’s June National Safety Month.

The eye-catching poster is illustrated with easy-to-understand industry pictorials and can be displayed in breakrooms, on the shop floor, in the classroom, or anywhere important safety information needs to be shared.

The AEM equipment safety poster stresses the importance of understanding signal

Saudi Aramco (Saudi Arabian Oil Company) has awarded an EPC (engineering, procurement and construction) contract to Canada-based SNC-Lavalin for the asphalt production expansion project at the Ras Tanura refinery.

Local subsidiary Saudi Arabian Kentz will handle the 18-month contract execution, which includes comprehensive engineering and detailed design, procurement, installation, construction and commissioning.

The expansion will increase the 22,000barrels/day asphalt production at Ras Tanura to 42

A new asphalt plant will be constructed in Kazakhstan’s southern region. The facility will produce 22,000tonnes/year of fine-grained and 7,000tonnes/year of coarse-grained asphalt.

US-based Astec Inc, an Astec Industries company, celebrated the beginning of the construction of a new manufacturing bay with a groundbreaking ceremony at the Astec manufacturing facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

The 2,302m² addition, which is designed for manufacturing equipment used for Astec wood pellet plants and asphalt mixing plants, is expected to create 40-50 new jobs, with around 30 of those jobs starting when the bay begins operating in September 2016.

Astec president Malcolm Swanson ad