Asphalt Plants, Equipment & Applications

Despite the slow down in the US market, this year's ConExpo looks set to be one of the biggest yet. ABE previews the new quarrying machines that will be on display he international construction equipment industry's triannual visit to the US will roll into the desert state of Nevada next month for ConExpo 2008. Taking turns in alternate years to France's Intermat and Germany's Bauma exhibitions, the Las Vegas show is the main event for new machine launches this year. Between 11 and 15 March, the Las Vegas Co

Recycled asphalt is not only environmentally friendly, it is also financially friendly as one UK council demonstrated on a recent road reconstruction project. Road reconstruction techniques that reduce the cost by a quarter, cut the length of works by over a half and save 9tonnes of CO2 emissions sounds too good to be true, doesn't it? But a recent resurfacing project carried out by the London Borough of Newham in the UK managed to achieve just that through use of in situ recycling.

Bury St Edmunds, County Suffolk, east England-based company BG Europa (UK) has been awarded the sole distributorship for Lintec Asphalt and Concrete modular plants in the UK and Ireland.

Rising bitumen prices should be factored in more consistently when awarding highways contract tenders, according to Tarmac National Constructing (TNC).