Asphalt Plants, Equipment & Applications

Road constructors, facing a lack of new projects in home markets, have shown an increasing tendency to take part in tenders for new roadbuilding worldwide. For this reason there has been the preference to use easily transportable, tyre-mounted plants, capable of fitting into the most difficult of logistic situations, says Marini, which has introduced the new XPRESS 2500.

The batch plant with a production rate up to 200tonnes/hour, is tyre-mounted for easy transfer, and within the road transport limits (a

Italian testing equipment company Controls has moved its headquarters after 30 years at its historic base at Cernusco sul Naviglio, Milan, which can no longer meet the growing productive needs of the company. The company, which has seven branches and more than 4,000 products for the construction industry in three business areas, has a new plant in Liscate, a small town in a logistically strategic position, just 17km from the centre of Milan and at the intersection of two major new motorway networks. Among i

Level measuring specialists Hycontrol have designed and installed a multi-point bitumen level measuring and overfill protection system for Aggregate Industries at their Express Asphalt plant at Botley, near Southampton, England.

The system, utilising microwave and capacitive technologies, has been fitted to four 36.5tonne tanks containing hot bitumen, replacing the existing ‘cat and mouse’ level system. This out-of-date mechanical arrangement, based on pulleys and counterweights, was becoming increasingl

Breedon Aggregates has been awarded a contract valued at up to £10 million (€13 million) by Wills Bros John Paul JV to supply drystone, ready-mixed concrete and asphalt to the £35 million (€46) first stage of the A9 dualling project between Kincraig and Dalraddy south of Aviemore, Scotland.

The 8km stretch incorporates five new structures, numerous side roads and accesses to local estates. It is the first stage in a £3 billion (€3.95 billion) project to transform 128km of single carriageway to dual carr

Fergus Ewing MSP, Scotland’s Minister for Business, Energy and Tourism, has opened a new asphalt plant at Daviot quarry near Inverness, Scotland, which represents a £2.2 million investment in the area by Breedon Aggregates, Scotland’s leading independent building materials company.

Breedon’s new state-of-the-art Marini plant will be capable of producing up to 180tonnes of asphalt per hour, substantially more than the previous plant on the site, and it also has a significantly larger hot storage facility

France-based Fayat Group has commissioned its first asphalt mixing plant at Sanand near Ahmedabad in India. The €16 million (US$17.48 million) plant will have the capacity of 25 to 30 plants/ year in the first phase. In the coming four to five years, the company hopes to expand its installed capacity to 70-75 plants/year.

It is reported that Ireland-based building materials company CRH will join the race to acquire Lafarge's cement business in India with annual capacity of 11 million tonnes with 7.8 million tonnes of the capacity is located in West Bengal, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh.

JSW Cement, Birla Corporation as well as Blackstone might also submit bids for Lafarge's assets in India.

Lafarge has been told by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) to sell its 5.15 million tonnes of cement capacity in eastern Indi