Asphalt Pro - July 2021

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American Pavement Joins the Warehouse Revolution • Meet Women of Ajax • Simon Takes Multiple Asphalt Wins • Kokosing’s Safety Means You’re Never Alone

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CONTENTS

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Editor’s Letter 6 – How Low Are We Expected to Go?

SAFETY SPOTLIGHT

8 – Kokosing Saves with Lone Worker Solution

By Sarah Redohl

PAVEMENT MAINTENANCE 10 – American Pavement Paves the Way for Amazon

By Sarah Redohl

WOMEN of ASPHALT PROFILE 16 – Two Women of Asphalt: Meet Ajax’s Jewel Eggleston and Renee Aguis

By Sandy Lender

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PRODUCT GALLERY

56 – Even More Production Equipment for More Tonnage

By AsphaltPro Staff

ONLINE UPDATE

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HERE'S HOW IT WORKS 62 – Bomag’s ION Dust Shield

Feature articles 22– Asphalt Equals Climate Stewardship

By Sandy Lender 26 – Simon Wins for Smoothness on SH-14

By Sarah Redohl 34 – Corporate Profiles Showcase Offers a Look Inside

By AsphaltPro Staff

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Corporate Profiles Edition

asphaltPRO PRODUCTION – PROFESSIONALS – PRODUCTS

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American Pavement Joins the Warehouse Revolution • Meet Women of Ajax • Simon Takes Multiple Asphalt Wins • Kokosing’s Safety Means You’re Never Alone

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on the cover American Pavement provided an asphalt upgrade to the historic warehouse parking lot for its Amazon customer.

See related article on page 10. Photo courtesy of American Pavement

editor’s Letter How Low Are We Expected to Go?

When people find themselves juggling too much debt, they need a strategy to get out from under the burden. Financial advisors suggest one pay off the credit card—or loan—with the lowest balance first. Then pay off the next-lowest-balance loan. And so on.

I see this happening globally with greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and other issues.

Globalists, donning the mantel of authority, have targeted the United States to lower its GHG emissions leaving the asphalt industry in this country to stare collectively at already low numbers. How much lower can they go?

It is a fact, reported in the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s 2001 Report to Members that “[e]missions from asphalt plants, including GHGs, are very low and well-controlled. Between 1970 and 1999, the asphalt industry decreased total emissions by 97% while increasing production by 250%.”

Consider those numbers. Increasing production more than 200% over a 30-year period should have increased emissions in any industry in any country, right? But not ours.

The asphalt industry decreased total emissions by almost 100%. That’s commendable.

GHG emission reduction has only improved in the 21 years since. We’ve paid our balance through such measures as improved baghouse technology, blue smoke capture controls, dust re-use measures, and low-NOx and ultra-low-NOx burners that we fine-tune like a concert violin.

As a conservationist, I applaud efforts to filter particulates of dubious nature out of our air and water. We all want a clean planet. There are few things as beautiful as a view of the Blue Ridge Mountains with their trees in full leaf or the Pacific Ocean where it meets the horizon about three minutes before sunset. Imposing further restrictions and regulations upon an industry that’s already done its part isn’t going to preserve those majestic views. What we need at this point in history is to educate the hysterical masses. We need to inform potential mayoral candidates in cities like Cleveland that the particulates they imagine asphalt plants pout into the environment are not the crisis.

Ignoring large polluters is the crisis.

The current Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) program from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one example of the “crisis think.” Despite EPA categorizations, political candidates and your local concerned parent think the nearby asphalt plant is toxic. We must take time out of our day jobs to explain to them that it’s not. According to the attorney NAPA engaged to review the TRI reporting obligations, “few asphalt mix plants are likely required to report under TRI.” If the phrasing “are likely required” sets you on edge, you can reach out to NAPA for help. The association will be issuing guidance for its membership shortly.

It’s laudable to continue striving toward better goals throughout our lives and careers.

It’s even more laudable to set a goal of rooting out the tumor poisoning our planet. I have my opinion of which countries are to blame for many of our pollution problems—and it’s not the United States or her asphalt industry. Even if the North American asphalt industry were to reduce its GHG emissions to net zero by whatever arbitrary date the elitists set, our children can still choke to death on the poison drifting from a still-leaking Fukushima, the brine off the Salar de Atacama salt flat, or the apathetic Shanghai. The miniscule GHG emissions still present after all the scrubbing our industry does are nothing in comparison to the enormous balance coming from other parts of the globe. I think it’s time to tell the global elite to focus attention on the next-lowest-balance.

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Safety Spotlight

Kokosing saves with Lone Worker Solution Kokosing Materials Inc., a sister company of Kokosing Construction Co. Inc., Fredericktown, Ohio, has long been concerned about employees working at its facilities alone, whether that takes the form of a loader operator left alone pushing up millings, the plant operator loading out the rest of the mix, the quality control tech finishing up a test, or the terminal operator transferring liquid.

“What if someone has a medical emergency?” said Chuck Mull, corporate environmental manager at Kokosing. It wouldn’t be the first time that happened. A few years back, one of Kokosing’s loader operators had a cardiac event. “Thankfully, there were guys in the shop close by, but if he had been alone, we could have had a big issue.”

The company tried to enforce having two people on site at all times, but found it was a hard practice to keep up when the season got busy. With all facilities operating at max and multiple night shifts a week, personnel would get pretty slim. “It’s a big challenge for asphalt companies, since you’re usually running with just a plant operator, loader operator and ground guy,” Mull said. It doesn’t give much leeway for a two-man rule.

That’s why Kokosing’s safety team invested in lone worker safety devices from Blackline Safety Corp., Calgary, Canada. It’s an investment that has earned the company the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s 2020 Asphalt Operations Safety Innovation Award.

Kokosing has previously been recognized with NAPA’s 2018 Asphalt Operations Safety Innovation Award for its lockout/tag out app.

Now, Blackline’s monitors are Kokosing’s second person at the plant. It’s a wearable device about the size of a cell phone that can be clipped onto a belt or shirt. Kokosing opted for the model that also monitors hydrogen sulfide (H2S), carbon monoxide (CO), oxygen (O2) and lower explosive limit (LEL).

Whenever an employee is alone at the plant, all they need to do is grab a Blackline monitor to have instant access to help if they ever need it. “It’s very helpful for the last team member at the plant to have that help

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there,” Mull said, “and it gives family members some peace of mind.”

Kokosing also requires employees to use the devices whenever working in confined spaces or performing tasks requiring gas monitoring.

The lone worker solution is customizable, so Kokosing has set it up to suit their needs.

They have a check-in alarm that goes off every hour, as well as alarms for the four previously mentioned gasses, a no motion alarm and a fall detection alarm.

If ever an employee doesn’t respond to an alarm, Blackline will talk to them through the monitor to ask if they are okay. If the person still doesn’t respond, Blackline will notify EMS who will be able to navigate directly to the site of the worker using the monitor’s GPS. “No matter where they are at the plant, EMS will know exactly where they are,” said Safety Manager Mike Farnsworth. Upper management at Kokosing is also notified.

Although Mull said the platform is very simple to navigate from a management standpoint, he did say it takes some time to perfect the settings for each alarm. For example, employees would set off the fall alarm when jumping out of a parked pickup truck. “We had to adjust the sensitivity, so they wouldn’t go off when we didn’t want them to,” Mull said.

“That took some trial and error.”

Now, they’re experts and even have different settings profiles in the system so they can switch their units between different modes, like production mode and winter maintenance mode.

In addition to Blackline’s simplicity on the backend, it’s also simple for employees using the devices. “All they really need to do is turn it on,” Mull said. Training staff on how to use the devices was easy. “It wasn’t a tough rollout. The guys were actually happy about it.”

“When we followed up with everyone, we found that if they weren’t using it, it wasn’t because they didn’t want to but because they forgot about it,” Farnsworth said. Often, it’s a matter of the plant manager handing them out to whoever is left when he or she leaves.

But, time and repetition also help. “Now it’s a habit.”

Kokosing first rolled out the lone worker solution to its terminals in 2018 and extended it to all of its facilities in 2019. “Whenever we use new technology, we want to test it out to see how it works,” Mull said. Its terminals were a perfect opportunity, because much of the work is performed by one person due to the hours they work. Terminals also presented additional H2S and CO hazards that the monitor could track.

Because the devices GPS-track all alarms, this solution has also helped Kokosing identify hazard zones around its facilities. “On the Blackline website, you can see every place where an alarm was tripped,” Farnsworth said.

For example, Kokosing changed its procedure at the loadout area of its Mansfield terminal after the original setup frequently tripped the H2S alarm. In another instance, they realized that the CO alarms were often going off on the back side of a newly built tank setup where the new air flows resulted in higher CO concentrations. “We resolved the issue by adjusting and tuning the heaters as well as looking at varying heights on the exhaust stacks,” Mull said. “We wouldn’t have known about it without the Blackline monitors,” Mull said.

Despite the success of its lone worker solution, Kokosing does not allow some tasks to be performed without having a second employee on site, including in confined spaces, electrical work and elevated work.

Thankfully, Kokosing hasn’t had any instances requiring EMS to be dispatched to its facility since implementing the lone worker monitors. In fact, Kokosing has worked more than one million hours (over four years) without a recordable injury.

“It’s sort of like an AED,” Mull said. “It’s great to have it, but you hope to never have to use it.”

“I think this really showed team members that Kokosing is looking out for them and cares for them,” Farnsworth said, “that they’re being proactive and they don’t need something to happen to want to keep people safe.”

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American Pavement Paves the Way for Amazon During World War II, the building at 75 Aircraft Road, Southington, Connecticut, was home to the aerospace manufacturer Pratt and Whitney. After its construction in 1942, the facility spent the war manufacturing and repairing Double Wasp engines and producing components used in the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter and Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber.

According to Preservation Connecticut, a nonprofit organization established by the Connecticut State Legislature to preserve the state’s historic buildings, operations at the facility peaked for the company in 1968 and steadily declined until Pratt and Whitney’s parent company, United Technologies Corporation, announced the plant would close in 1995.

For more than 20 years, the building and its 300,000-square-foot parking lot sat empty, until it was leased as a fulfillment center in 2017. Now, Amazon uses the facility to park more than 700 vans each night.

It is one of a handful of facilities the company has invested in throughout Connecticut over the past few years.

According to the Hartford Business Journal, realty experts say Connecticut is an “ideal choice for fulfillment- and distribution-related enterprises” due to the many major interstates running through the state and the availability of large land parcels. For this particular distribution center, Amazon didn’t have to start from the ground up, utilizing the old Pratt and Whitney factory.

However, the parking lot was a different story. According to Josh Stanley of American Pavement Specialists, Danbury, Connecticut, the lot was between 30 and 40 years old and full of potholes and spider cracks. There were issues with standing water and it seemed as though multiple patch and shim jobs had been laid throughout the lot to maintain it over the years.

When American Pavement was hired to repair the parking lot, the company decided

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The crew placed 1.5 inches of Class I asphalt, followed by a 1.5-inch top course of Class II asphalt.

In total, the job required 6,000 tons of asphalt. The job was awarded very late in the 2020 season, with American Pavement beginning their work early November. full depth reclamation (FDR) was the best course of action so Amazon would have a new pavement from the subgrade up.

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The prime contractor, Lascon Inc., Eastchester, New York, asked for quotes from three paving companies: two large paving corporations and American Pavement, “the lean, mean paving specialists,” Stanley said. Although American Pavement had bid on other Amazon projects, this was the first one they were awarded.

Ultimately, Stanley said, they were awarded the job after Lascon spent some time on their Instagram page. “They said once they saw the pride we took in our work and the way we operate, they felt we were the right company for the job,” Stanley said.

The job was awarded very late in the 2020 season, with American Pavement beginning their work early November. The Tilcon asphalt plant located five miles from the

project would be closed over the winter, so the job needed to be completed before the plant’s season shut-down Dec. 14.

Once the reclaimer was in the ground and there was enough room for the grader, the crew began grading. As soon as the grader finished a section large enough and compacted enough for paving to begin, the paving crew set to work. “Our projects are one continuous ballet of equipment and manpower,” Stanley said.

The job called for FDR, using the underlying materials for a stabilized base course.

They reclaimed the existing asphalt and gravel subgrade to a depth between 8 and 12 inches. The crew performed this with its Wirtgen WR 200i reclaimer. Due to the large size of the lot, American Pavement hired out a CMI reclaimer from Garrity Asphalt Reclaiming Inc., Bloomfield, Connecticut.

“Hiring a second reclaimer to help with the cutting was one of the best decisions we made,” Stanley said. “That one decision probably cut two days off the entire project.”

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Pavement maintenance The age of the lot presented challenges to the process. The asphalt varied between 3 and 8 inches thick, with structures and wires buried and abandoned throughout the project. The entire lot was surveyed by Call Before You Dig (CBYD), which marked out all utilities. “When working on a parking lot this old, the prep process is very difficult because you never know what you are going to run into when you put your teeth in the ground,” Stanley said. “When ripping up a lot this old, you can bet there’s always surprises.”

A reclaimer could not be used for the entire parking lot, due to the buried utilities and proximity to curbing, fences and catch basins. Roughly 10,000 to 15,000 square feet of the asphalt had to be removed with an excavator or skid steer, loaded up, and hauled off site. Then, the rough grading, compaction and fine grading could begin.

“The original asphalt grade wasn’t great, so during this fine grade process there was quite a bit of cutting and filling being done,” Stanley said. Thankfully, the company’s Leeboy 685 and John Deere excavators and its Mauldin 413 MXT Maintainer and John Deere 333G skid steers got the job done.

Next, the crew placed 1.5 inches of Class I asphalt, followed by a 1.5-inch top course of Class II asphalt. American Pavement’s Vogele 5100-02 Vision 8-foot track paver put down the majority of the first course of asphalt. By the end of the season, the screed plates were pretty worn out. When Caterpillar offered the company a demo of a Cat AP555F 8-foot track paver, the crew ended up using the machine to pave the majority of the top lift in the larger areas.

The final sections of the top lift, about 600 tons total, were in smaller sections of the lot. The crew paved this portion of the project with its Leeboy 6150 paver. “Operating a Leeboy in a parking lot, versus a larger road paver, makes a huge difference in the amount of hand work for the paving crew,” Stanley said. “Being able to get closer to structures and closing gates at the end of passes reduces handwork a ton.” In total, the job required 6,000 tons of asphalt.

The crew took their time with the layout to maximize its efficiency, marking out each pass beforehand. “On jobs this size, we like to lay out the parking lot the night before,” Stanley said. “All our crews need to do the next day is fuel up the equipment and start paving.”

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When Caterpillar offered the company a demo of a Cat AP555F 8-foot tracked paver, the crew ended up using the machine to pave the majority of the top lift in the larger areas.

The lot was between 30 and 40 years old and varied between 3 and 8 inches thick, with structures and wires buried and abandoned throughout the project. The entire lot was surveyed by Call Before You Dig (CBYD), which marked out all utilities.

The mat was compacted with American Pavement’s Hamm HD70, HD80, HD14 and HD12 vibratory rollers, all equipped with oscillation. In the final phase, the crew finished up sidewalks, curbing, aprons and performed site clean-up.

Paving up the curbing/sidewalk turned out to be one of the more challenging aspects of the job. “The sidewalk in front of the building—1,000 feet of sidewalk—was completely flat with zero pitch,” Stanley

said. “We had to get creative and create a high point on the curb line.”

This meant they lost their 6-inch reveal, but the engineers on the site acknowledged the problem they were facing and approved the fix. “It took some time, but we eventually were able to pave along this sidewalk and not leave any puddling. The paving gods were with us on this day!”

The size of the lot was also unwieldy. “It literally took five minutes to walk from one

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LEFT: The mat was compacted with American Pavement’s Hamm HD70, HD80, HD14 and HD12 vibratory rollers, all equipped with oscillation.

RIGHT: The Tilcon asphalt plant located five miles from the project would be closed over the winter, so the job needed to be completed before the plant’s season shut-down Dec. 14. side of the job to the other,” Stanley said.

“If your crews get spread out and tools get dropped all over the place on such a large property, production decreases quickly.”

Throughout the job, the crew also had to contend with more than 700 Amazon delivery vans using the lot on a daily basis.

The size of the lot made this less of a problem, except for one day when there was a miscommunication about where the crew would be working. However, the crew was quickly able to adjust its operations for the day to accommodate the customer.

“Field decisions like this are great examples of the benefits of working with a lean, mean, versatile company like ours,” Stanley said. “Having the boss and multiple foremen on site at all times is why we’re able to quickly adapt and overcome any obstacles thrown our way.”

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Typically, a project like this would have taken the company 14 days to complete, but weather conditions and the customer’s tight schedule required them to work as quickly as possible. They finished the project in just eight days. In fact, the speed at which the crew was able to pave the lot was one of the coolest aspects of the job, according to Stanley.

“It’s very rare that we get to pave large open parking lots with 1,000-foot-long

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passes,” Stanley said. The crew was able to pave at a very fast pace for parking lot paving, up to 80 feet per minute. Some days, the crew was able to pave 700 tons before noon.

“It’s a rewarding feeling to be able to complete such large areas in one day.”

One of Stanley’s tips for performing the job under such a tight deadline is teamwork. “We strive to keep our laborers and machines working in unison,” Stanley said.

They’ve found that their laborers don’t work as quickly when working apart from one another. “We always stress to work together.

Don’t spread the crew too thin.”

He also recommended starting the day in areas where the crew can maximize its output early on and meet the least resistance, opting to begin in wide open areas versus difficult ones. “Just like in your daily routine, a productive morning brings a productive day,” Stanley said. “It’s no different in paving.”

And on this job more than most, productivity was imperative. American Pavement’s end-of-season schedule was tight, there were only four or five weeks left in the paving season, and American Pavement never wants to be the type of company that is too busy for its customers at the end of the season, requiring them to find another contractor.

“We tell our employees that the last two months of work are not for us as a company, but for our customers,” Stanley said.

“Our loyal customers put food on our ta-

The 300,000-square-foot parking lot is used to park more than 700 vans each night. ble all year long. We have to come through for them at the end of the season when they need us the most.”

“This project was like the battle that ended the war,” Stanley said, and a great bookend to a busy season. “The guys absolutely killed it! When you get a chance to pave a project this large, it’s something special. We know it, the crew knows it, and the customer knows it.”

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Two Women of Asphalt: Meet Ajax’s Jewel Eggleston and Renee Aguis They started in different roles but now work on quality control/quality assurance (QC/QA) from two angles to place award-winning pavements for the Southeast. QC Lab Technician Jewel Eggleston and Roller Operator Renee Aguis are just two of the team players for Ajax Paving Industries of Florida LLC, headquartered in North Venice. Here they share what brought them to the asphalt industry and what makes them proud to be women of asphalt.

Ajax Paving Industries of Florida is an equal opportunity employer and boasts a number of women of asphalt, including Project Manager Jessica Kiesel, who will be featured in an upcoming edition of AsphaltPro. This month, let’s take a look at the way Eggleston and Aguis handle QC for a company that has served more than 2,000 clients and garnered more than 500 awards.

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AsphaltPro: Could you share with the readers your career trajectory since joining the asphalt industry and what challenges you’ve overcome along the way?

Jewel Eggleston: I was all around the asphalt industry for years. I drove truck as a transport driver and delivered asphalt from local plants for three years. Then in the late ’90s, I became a QC plant inspector.

I started with Ajax Paving Industries of Florida in 2007 as a quality control lab technician. The most rewarding aspect is the relationships I have formed with our outside sales customers and our plant employees.

We have become family-like over the years.

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Jewel Eggleston is the quality control lab technician for Ajax Paving Industries of Florida. She stated the plant and loader operators are her key team members at the asphalt plant.

Renee Aguis is a lead roller operator for Ajax Paving Industries of Florida. She stated one of the biggest obstacles she’s had to overcome as a woman in the paving industry is that some of her male colleagues didn’t look past her gender to recognize her knowledge and skill. “I did not fit the typical stereotype of a woman in construction: I like to have my nails done and like to have my hair done. All I can say is always be you, do not try to be who you think other people want you to be.

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women of asphalt I used to watch the TV show “That Girl” with Marlow Thomas. I always wanted to be “that girl.” She had her own apartment, had a job and was self-sufficient—didn’t need help from anyone else. That show was my motivation.

Renee Aguis: “My career in asphalt began at age 41, in 2014, accidentally. My first career was as a stay-at-home mom of my first three boys. I was the wife of an asphalt man, so I did have some knowledge at the beginning. At the dinner table, he would explain to the boys and me the different details of his day, what the machines did, etc. I recall at the time I did not understand the terminology he would use. Therefore, I would look up some of those complex words so I would have a better understanding of what he was saying the next night.”

In 2013, after welcoming their fourth son, Aguis suffered from postpartum depression.

“With four kids, one income, and very little to no self-esteem, my husband encouraged me to go back to work.”

Finding a job after being out of the workforce for 17 years wasn’t easy. Aguis’s husband asked his foreman to help out. At the time, Ajax used a labor service so they brought Aguis on as a flagger for the crew.

She says the crew thought her shy and insecure nature, combined with the humidity of Florida and high asphalt temperatures, would keep her asphalt career short.

“Of course, I had to prove them wrong. As a result, I was asked if I would like a permanent position. During my hiring process, the crew had a few people not show up for work.

My foreman asked me if I would like to learn to back roll. Honestly, I was petrified of getting on that roller but I wanted to be helpful.

As apprehensive as I was I climbed up on that roller and had my first on-the-job training of how to operate a roller.”

It took the foreman about 30 minutes to teach her the basics. “I was attentive and guarded and rolled at a snail's pace. I remember being told, ‘all you have to do is go back and forth and make sure you cover the whole mat.’ That is when I did what I am known for; I asked my first question why?

In my months of flagging, I had watched all three rollers and what they could do. It took a short time to learn how to maneuver all three but I wanted to know why? What is the purpose? Once I was taught what the

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purpose of the machine was, I started to become more comfortable. However, I also did enough research to know to not get too comfortable and to stay alert at all times.

One wrong move and you could either hurt yourself or, worse yet, someone else.”

AsphaltPro: Could you share with the readers what your job as a QC lab tech for Ajax requires?

Jewel Eggleston: Taking asphalt samples from the trucks, running the necessary tests to make sure our mix meets the necessary mix design standards, test liquid asphalt contents, compaction of mix, etc.

AsphaltPro: Why did you become a QC tech in the lab and what about that position is most rewarding to you?

Jewel Eggleston: I was encouraged by other people in the industry to get my level 1 and level 2 asphalt certifications, which opened the door for me to get into the lab. I find it rewarding to put out a good mix and quality material. It makes me proud to see locations around town where we laid our mix. I am excited when it rides nice and looks great.

AsphaltPro: Could you share with the readers what your job as a roller operator for Ajax requires?

Renee Aguis: My current position at Ajax is lead roller operator, also known as the breakdown roller. My job as lead roller assists in achieving density and sealing the mat behind the screed. A lead operator must remember several factors: • They should keep up with the speed of the paver.

• The current weather conditions factor into how long the asphalt will take to cool off.

• Every operator is taught differently, but I make sure to pinch and seal up any joints and handwork first.

Part of my daily routine is to do what we call a 360 walk around. At first glance, I check the obvious things that are essential to a productive day such as the condition of my cocoa mats. Is the roller clean?

I also check my fluids such as oil, hydraulic fluid and diesel fuel, and water. I also check

my lights, brakes and scrapers. I also check for the operator standards, which are located in a black box on my roller. Every piece of equipment should have one. The operator standards are reminders and sheets with information on how to properly care for your piece of equipment.

I operate multiple rollers.

• Sakai vibratory and oscillating roller • Bomag 5 to 8 roller or known as a steel wheel • Nine wheel or traffic roller My favorite is the cat nine wheel and the steel wheel is also used as a finish or back roller.

AsphaltPro: Why did you become a roller operator? What about that position is “most cool” to you?

Renee Aguis: As I stated earlier I was striking out everywhere trying to find a job so it kind of was an opportunity I ran with. I enjoy the daily challenges of improving my skills. Becoming an operator has given me the confidence that I have lacked in myself for most of my life. The coolest part of my job is the different locations. I am not in the same place every day. I have joked in the past that there are times I have the most beautiful view from my office. It could be along a beach one day and the next by the railroad tracks.

Strange opportunities arise unexpectedly like the time we got to meet Steven King.

AsphaltPro: What do you think is the most important skill you’ve brought to your position in the asphalt industry?

Jewel Eggleston: You have to be able to work well under pressure, have people skills to handle face-to-face interactions, and the ability to multi-task.

Renee Aguis: My special skill is my ability to ask a lot of questions so that I can fully understand the purpose of my job. By knowing what my machine's purpose is and what’s expected of me I can perform my job from the training I acquired by watching other operators and listening to their advice. There is not a lot of time for one-onone training. You more or less learn as you go. So my advice to any woman out there is you can learn any job on an asphalt crew if you ask questions and remain focused.

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AsphaltPro: Jewel Eggleston commented that the field QC technicians work with the roller operators to set the patterns from the QC tests. Could you elaborate?

Renee Aguis: At the beginning of each shift, we have a safety huddle or a beginning of the day/night meeting where we discuss the plan. When it comes to density I mostly confer with my QC and the rest of my rolling team. I usually have a partner who will run tandem with me on the Sakai and then we use sometimes the nine wheel and then my back roll operator. Usually, my QC gives us a pattern and we try it on the first pass; he will check to see if it’s correct. If not, we will tweak it a little bit and sometimes he will ask for my partner or my advice on what we think we should do.

AsphaltPro: What do you think is an incorrect perception that we, as an industry, can re-educate young people about to encourage more women to consider a career in the asphalt business?

Jewel Eggleston: It is not just a man’s world; women have proven they can work in the industry, too. There is so much room for advancement in the construction industry. I encourage all women to be a lady when you need to be and be a badass when necessary.

Renee Aguis: The stereotype that women do not belong on a construction site but rather in the kitchen or home tending to the children has been around for ages. Not all women are meant to live that life. Just like not all men are meant to do vigorous labor.

Women have a lot to offer in the construction field. They have long attention spans, good focus and are extremely good problem solvers. Rolling requires focus and paying attention as well as knowing how to operate and maneuver the machine. Safety is a big factor.

Women also think differently than men and can probably give another perspective on a job. For any woman, I would encourage them to try something that is out of their comfort zone. It gives you a feeling of accomplishment whether you are perfect at it or not. Working on an asphalt crew has given me confidence that I never thought I could feel. I am close to 50

now and I know that there’s nothing that I won't try at least once.

There are many rewarding aspects of being in the asphalt business. One of those aspects is the proud feeling I get when I drive down the road that I participated in making with my team. Another rewarding aspect is being part of a team. Everyone’s position on our crew is equally important. Without one person doing their job the correct way the road would not come together properly; we all have to work together for the final product.

Finally, probably the most rewarding aspect of being in the asphalt business is hearing and seeing how proud my son is of me, to hear him tell his friends, “my mommy built that road, she runs a roller.” I hope that I am teaching my son that no matter who you are whether you’re male or female, black or white, you can do and accomplish anything you put your mind to.

MENTORS Jewel Eggleston listed Plant Manager Rickey Stevens as a mentor from her asphalt career. “I liked the fact that he wanted to see the daily reports and had an interest in the quality of the mix that was going out. The quality of our mix represented all of us at Ajax Paving Industries of Florida and we want to provide our best mix possible to our customers and our paving crews.”

Renee Aguis listed Luke Van Tassel, a tack truck driver from the first crew she worked with, as a mentor from her asphalt career. While Van Tassel didn’t immediately warm up to the idea of having a woman on a construction site, sharing with Aguis that he wouldn’t want his wife or daughters working in field conditions, he came to recognize she was good at her job. “He was one of the men that took the time out to explain to me in detail in words that I could understand exactly what it was that my nine wheel did. He has since moved away and has a new job but we do keep in touch; he was one of the first people that I called when I was promoted to lead operator.”

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While the site doesn’t have room for multiple large virgin aggregate piles, it has to accommodate a RAP pile. In the background, you can see the 76,000-CFM pulse-jet baghouse, three 300-ton storage silos from Astec and at least two of the three 35,000-gallon AC tanks from CEI Enterprises, an Astec company. All photos courtesy of City of L.A. BSS

Asphalt Equals Climate Stewardship

Here’s how the City of Los Angeles inserted dust and mist collection to garner an Envision® award for 2021

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Back in March, the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) announced that the L.A. Asphalt Plant No. 1 (AP1) replacement and modernization in an industrial district of Los Angeles, California, had received its Envision® Bronze award for sustainable infrastructure.

While this is a laudable project on its own merits, AsphaltPro would like to share with the industry a few tips from the project to assist in other producers’ journeys toward net zero emissions and positive climate stewardship.

ISI stated in its March 10 press release: “To earn Envision Bronze, a project must demonstrate that it delivers a range of environmental, social, and economic benefits to the host and affected communities.”

Let’s look at how a plant from 1947, operated by the city of Los Angeles Bureau of Street Ser-

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vices (BSS), could produce between 100,000 and 200,000 tons of hot-mix asphalt (HMA) per year in an environmentally friendly manner. Specifically, how could a plant of that age introduce between 7.5 and 20% recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) without causing emissions troubles? The answer involves new technology, careful planning, and dust and emissions collection for re-use.

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For starters, the city worked closely with Partner Engineering & Science and brought in a full-service general contractor—Papich Construction Inc.—to demolish the old plant, remove old soil and detritus, bring in clean fill dirt, and build a new plant, alongside vendors such as Astec Industries of Chattanooga and

Butler Justice Inc., of Long Beach, California.

To get the new plant to fit on a roughly 2-acre site in an industrial area, the team had to create a detailed layout.

Eddie Van Zyl, sales director west integrated process solutions for Astec, told us the layout went through upwards of 20-plus revisions to ensure smooth traffic flow on the site for worker safety. “The biggest challenge on this project was to get all the equipment to function on a small site without being disrupted by truck traffic,” he explained. “We had to get all the pieces to work harmoniously with aggregate, RAP, and liquid asphalt deliveries taking place and not interfering with the hot-mix asphalt and Tac Oil pickup. Besides the asphalt plant, the site also houses Street Services personnel in the new administration building.”

five aggregate silos over the cold feed bins, totaling 3,000 tons of capacity.

“The silos are 26-feet in diameter,” Van Zyl said. “With the truck dump hopper and conveyors, they cover about 200 feet. The aggregate is unloaded into a 30-ton truck dump hopper. Minimal dust is created as the hopper sits well below grade. The conveyors are all covered with aluminum dust covers and all aggregate transition points have water mist dampeners. The RAP screen is completely covered so that any dust created is mitigated.”

COLLECT DUST

TOP: On the far right of this picture, the blue box is one of the two insertable baghouses described in this article. Mike Butler explained these small dust collectors are gaining popularity with established plants where owners want additional dust control and want RAP dust to remain in the circuit. The RAP screen is completely covered so that any dust created is mitigated. BOTTOM: The truck loading zone is completely enclosed and outfitted with u-shaped collectors at each silo gate to capture emissions as mix is discharged. You can also see here the auxiliary intake at this end, designed to prevent emissions from escaping when trucks exit the scale. To the side, notice the conveyors and transfer points are all covered carrying material to the 40-foot Double Barrel drum with V-Stack temperature control.

The truck traffic continues night and day, he said. “And that’s the challenge. They’ve got to be very well coordinated.”

The ISI release stated the “new AP1 will continuously produce asphalt at a rate of up to 400 tons per hour, up to 600k tons per year, and utilize up to 50% recycled asphalt product.”

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“The plant can meet their capabilities,” Van Zyl said. “The logistics will be the bottleneck.”

Logistics will require over a hundred trucks per day to deliver aggregate to the 600-ton silos. That’s right: a 2-acre site won’t accommodate multiple large stockpiles of virgin aggregate, so Astec supplied

Dust mitigation is one of the key factors that garnered the city’s Envision award. Under the category of air quality, the ISI stated: “As a project located in the South Coast Air Quality Management district, the project was required to meet stringent requirements to reduce particulate matter and other air pollutants. The new plant will be more efficient and provide significant improvements to air quality compacted to the previous plant that was designed in 1947.”

As Van Zyl mentioned, all conveyors and transfer points are covered. Astec supplied a 76,000-CFM pulse-jet baghouse for the project. Butler-Justice Inc. installed two insertable dust collectors along the RAP system to act as mini-baghouses at the Telsmith 4230 horizontal shaft impactor (HSI) and at the two 10-foot by 14-foot RAP bins.

“By utilizing material that would typically be sent to the landfill, this project is turning trash into a valuable material that is important for maintaining the city’s streets,” said Melissa Peneycad, ISI’s managing director.

The award committee also noted that by using reclaimed aggregates from local resurfacing projects in the production of HMA, the city will avoid uncertainty in future mining and transportation costs.

To ensure the use of RAP is as environmentally friendly as possible, the project captures and re-uses its dust.

“By its very nature, the HSI will displace air, which causes dust to billow out,” Mike Butler of Butler-Justice said. “We collect the unruly dust created by the impactor and screen. The collector acts just like a vacuum cleaner; the 30 bags inside are like pillowcases. There are always 20 bags that are sucking particulate in. Every 10 seconds, a pulse goes off for a set of 10 of the bags. This is a constant rotation.

“We’re containing the unruly dust in the bag section. Then when the bag releases its

want additional dust control and want RAP dust to remain in the circuit. “In that 2-acre site, there’s not a lot of room for another stand-alone baghouse, plus conveyors and all the accoutrements that go with it.” He pointed out that capturing and storing RAP dust particulate could present additional environmental hoops for owners to jump through. Returning the dust to the system for immediate use makes sense. “We circumvent a problem we’d end up creating if we captured and stored the material,” Butler said. “Our whole job is to solve problems.”

COLLECT MIST

Notice the LED lighting for the plant has covers to focus and direct it.

A potential problem Astec proactively solved is that of fugitive emissions at loadout. The company supplied three 300-ton storage silos and beneath them is an enclosed loading zone and a blue smoke control system with a kick.

Van Zyl described it: “The 18,000-CFM blue smoke control system includes a Fiberbed mist collector. The system prevents odorous fugitive emissions from the mix storage silos during filling and load-out operations. The truck loading zone is completely enclosed. The enclosure is outfitted with u-shaped collectors at each silo gate

dust cake onto the belt, the dust goes back into use.”

For the RAP material discussed here, special bags are required. “RAP wants to stick to bags,” Butler said. “But these bags balloon out when pulsed. The pores of the bag release the sticky dust.”

He explained that these small dust collectors—insertable baghouses—are gaining popularity with established plants where owners

to capture emissions as mix is discharged. The enclosure is also outfitted with auxiliary intakes at each end to prevent emissions from escaping when trucks exit the scale.”

COLLECT AN AWARD

When it’s all said and done, the AP1 in downtown Los Angeles is now designed to showcase how sustainable the asphalt industry can be. Right down to reducing light pollution.

“Lighting needs were designed based on local guidelines that encourages strategies that minimize light glare and trespass,” the ISI press release reported. “In addition to incorporating LEDs, lighting controls adjust to the project’s needs based on availability of daylight.”

With the latest technology in place, the plant “is expected to exceed regulatory requirements, permit requirements, and industry guidelines for energy efficiency and emissions control, and meet the current BACT condition set forth by the SCAQMD (Air Board).”

Whether you wish to meet new air quality standards in your county or wish to apply for your own green ratings certification for your operations, the steps BSS took for its site are a primer for getting started.

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SIMON WINS FOR SMOOTHNESS ON STATE HIGHWAY 14

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Pictured, left to right: James Lindgren, Javier Rodriguez, Manuel Sandoval, Marcario Sandoval, Colton Burgesser, Ethan Watne, Lonnie Niesent, Manuel Sandoval, Roger Tanner, Ebaristo Rodriguez, Albert Sisneros To win one of Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association’s “Best in Colorado” Asphalt Pavement Awards is already quite an honor, but imagine winning three awards for a single paving season.

That’s exactly what happened when Simon, a Colas company, Cheyenne, Wyoming, won awards in CAPA’s project innovation, smoothness (category II) and rural highway resurfacing categories. Furthermore, two of those awards were received for Simon’s performance on a single job on State Highway (SH) 14/New Raymer West in northeast Colorado. “It’s pretty rare for a project to get two awards, so we were extremely pleased,” said Simon Project Manager Kyle Rademacher.

Simon performs work in Wyoming, South Dakota, Nebraska and northeastern Colorado. Roughly 50 percent of its work is in Wyoming, and nearly 20 percent is in northeastern Colorado. The $5.5 million project on SH 14 consisted of full width milling to mitigate

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cracks, placement of 1-inch reflective crack interlayer (RCI) and 2.5-inch overlay.

The project was located along 9.1 miles of SH 14, a two-lane state highway with an average annual daily traffic count of 2,100, nearly 40 percent of which is truck traffic as a result of nearby agriculture and oil production.

According to Rademacher, the existing roadway had large transverse cracks across the entire roadway and “entire sections of the roadway were deteriorating.” The agency, Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) Region 4, planned to use a high-AC RCI to combat the cracks.

“CDOT had done full-depth reclamation on an adjacent portion of SH 14, so this was a good opportunity to compare the two,” Rademacher said. CDOT Resident Engineer Jeff Dollerschell agreed with Rademacher’s assessment, adding “the existing pavement thickness was around 12 inches, and CDOT Region 4 was reluctant to grind it up.” Al-

though CDOT Region 4 has used RCI on a few past projects, this was the first RCI project for CDOT Region 4’s Sterling Residency (one of six residencies in the region).

Simon was awarded the job on SH 14 in February 2020, began work in May and finished in July, for a total of 51 working days.

Simon first milled the worst sections of the roadway, accounting for roughly 5 percent of the total project, to a depth between 4 and 5 inches and patched those areas. Then, Simon’s subcontractor, Hudson Incorporated, Edmond, Oklahoma, milled off 1 inch of the existing roadway with its 12-foot Roadtec RX 60 C milling machine.

In total Hudson milled up 177,200 square yards of material, not including the patching sections. Simon relies on Hudson to perform milling on many of the company’s jobs, both in Colorado and in Wyoming. “CDOT said this was one of the smoothest milling jobs they’ve seen in a while,” Rademacher said.

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TOP LEFT: The crew paved both the RCI lift and top lift in two 18-foot passes with its Cat AP 1055 F paver and Weiler E650 C pickup machine.

TOP RIGHT: Hudson Incorporated milled off 1 inch of the existing roadway with its 12-foot Roadtec RX 60 C milling machine. BOTTOM LEFT: The job required a total of 36,700 tons of asphalt: 11,200 tons for the RCI lift and 25,500 tons for the top lift. BOTTOM RIGHT: Simon was averaging 4 miles and 1,700 tons per day during the RCI portion of the project, running about 39 feet per minute.

“The subcontractor did a great job, and CDOT thought the same.”

For the 2.5-inch top lift on SH 14, Simon used 20 percent RAP from the project’s millings. “Recycling the asphalt taken off the road allowed us to be more innovative and to have a more competitive bid,” Rademacher said. “It also resulted in a good product for CDOT at a lower cost.”

Material from the patching portion of the project wasn’t used as RAP in the top lift, Rademacher said, “because we went down deeper in those patch areas, and we didn’t want to contaminate our RAP with different kinds of asphalt if the mix design changed in those 4 to 5 inches we were patching.”

The job required a total of 36,700 tons of asphalt: 11,200 tons for the RCI lift and 25,500 tons for the top lift. Fines from Simon’s quarry in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and sand and ⅜ minus crushed gravel from Simon’s pits in Sterling and Julesburg, Colorado, was trucked in for the job.

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All mix for the job was produced with Simon’s brand new 400-ton-per-hour portable plant from Aesco Madsen, Auburn, Washington. “We purchased that plant in the winter of 2019, so this was the first job we got to do with it, which was really exciting,” Rademacher said. “It worked really well for us; that highAC mix is a good one to break in a new plant on, since we couldn’t run terribly fast on the job.

It was nice to test out the plant in a less fastpaced setting.”

Simon was averaging 4 miles and 1,700 tons per day during the RCI portion of the project, running about 39 feet per minute. “A 1-inch lift stretches pretty far down the road,” Rademacher said. Furthermore, they had to ensure both traffic control and their rollers could keep up with their pace. When they paved the top lift, at 25 feet per minute, they were familiar with the new plant and were able to really see what it could do. “We got up to 400 tph a couple times on that job. Getting the new plant up and running was a huge task for

[Asphalt Plant Foreman Timothy Klein] and his team, and they did a great job.”

Throughout the job, Simon controlled traffic on the two-lane highway with flaggers at the end of the 2- to 3-mile stretch they were working on, with a pilot car running between them. Simon sub-contracted traffic control to CC Enterprises, Grand Junction, Colorado.

“They did a good job of picking up and moving with us,” Rademacher said. “We rely on them quite a bit; they do a good job.”

The company leased 10 acres of pasture from a farmer right in the middle of the job to set up its portable asphalt plant. The longest haul on the job was only 5 miles. “That was a huge advantage for us,” Rademacher said. “I imagine if the RCI sat in a truck for 30 or 40 miles, you might run into issues with it getting too stiff.”

Simon achieved an average density of 94.2 on the SH 14 project, leading to multiple awards from the Colorado Asphalt Pavement Association.

The RCI mix utilized PG70-28 AC at 9 percent, 4 percent higher than normal asphalt designs Simon usually paves. Simon purchased the AC from Arkema-Road Science, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and had a representative from the company on-site to ensure the project’s success. Although Simon’s superintendent on the job had experience with RCI, SH 14 was Simon’s first RCI job. “We had a good idea of what to do and how to roll it, so we were very prepared,” Rademacher said, crediting both Arkema’s insight and the superintendent’s experience.

“The RCI mix was very fine and the AC content was so high that it almost looks like peanut butter as you’re laying it down,” Rademacher said, adding that this also contributed to the project’s overall smoothness. “RCI makes for a really nice smooth surface because it’s almost self-leveling.”

The crew paved both the RCI lift and top lift

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in two 18-foot passes with its Cat AP 1055 F paver and Weiler E650 C pickup machine.

“After winning these awards, we’re looking forward to using RCI on another job,” Rademacher said.

Dollerschell said that they have no current plans for RCI projects, but added he would support its use. “The RCI has performed well so far,” Dollerschell said. “Time will tell the long-term durability of the RCI.” One of the adjustments the Simon crew had to make when paving the RCI portion was ensuring their rollers were quick to begin compacting the mat. “Because the lift was so thin, it cooled down and stiffened up fast if we weren’t on top of it,” Rademacher said. Simon employed three steel drum rollers in tandem for the RCI lift.

For the top lift, Simon used two Sakai 990 steel drum rollers working in tandem for breakdown rolling and a finish roller to get final density and remove any roller marks. Simon achieved an average density

of 94.2 on the project. They also achieved a final average MRI of 45.7 for the project, which resulted in Simon winning CAPA’s smoothness award (category II). Simon won the exact same category in CAPA’s 2018 awards. The company also won a Smoothest Pavement award in its home state, from the Wyoming Department of Transportation, in 2019 on Interstate 80.

“Our guys are pretty good at winning those smoothness awards!” Rademacher said. “Smoothness is definitely something we take great pride in.” Simon’s pavers are equipped with grade control systems from Topcon Positioning Systems, Livermore, California. They also strive to keep the paver consistently full, pave at a consistent speed, and prevent rollers from stopping on the mat.

“Having a good milling subcontractor also helps,” Rademacher said. “That really determines how the rest of the road will ride. The quality of milling was an important part of achieving the smoothness award.”

Rademacher also praised key leaders that contributed to the project’s overall success.

“Project Superintendent Lonnie Niesent brought experience with RCI, and that knowledge was invaluable on this project,” he said. “Foreman Albert Sisneros does a great job running his crew. The whole crew did an excellent job on their first RCI project because of his leadership.”

He also complimented CDOT Project Engineer Andrew Muller for returning test results quickly and being “a great partner throughout the whole process,” as well as CDOT’s consultant from RockSol, Thornton, Colorado, Roger Tanner, for exceptional coordination and communication. “The project would not have gone nearly as well without the team we had out there.”

From AC content and air voids to density and smoothness, Simon nearly maxed out CDOT’s incentive program on this job.

“The quality of the job was so high that, on our last day, [Tanner] took a picture with the crew, congratulated them, and suggested we submit the job to CAPA’s awards program right away,” Rademacher said. Dollerschell added, “Simon and their subcontractors did a great job delivering a smooth, high-quality project.”

“These awards are a great feather in our cap,” Rademacher said. “We want to give people good roads for years to come. It’s nice to be appreciated for the work we do and receive that recognition.”

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he staff at AsphaltPro magazine sought a way to give original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) a chance to speak directly to asphalt professionals. We wanted to give the partners in our mission the chance to show you who they are and what they bring to the market to enhance your bottom line.

We posed a set of questions to those partners who support us, thus your operations, and left their answers raw and real. This special section to the July edition is our inaugural Corporate Profiles supplement and it represents an inside look at the OEMs who want to help you make the most of your business.

Companies like Hotmix Parts & Service®—co-located with Stansteel on page 46—shared basics that make sense for owners to consider: “From our favorable location, only minutes from United Parcel Service’s worldwide air hub, we can often ship items as late as 7 p.m. for delivery to your hot-mix asphalt plant facilities the next morning.”

But this supplement offers more than business basics. Herein, you’ll see company strategies among the mission statements shared with you.

The asphalt industry has its share of mergers and acquisitions among companies, such as those taking place under the Colas USA, CRH Cos. or Martin Marietta Materials Inc. umbrellas. Manufacturers supplying the equipment and services to enable operations have similar changes taking place.

For example, Command Alkon of Birmingham, Alabama, took Libra Systems Inc. and Ruckit Inc. into its family in November and December 2020 respectively. With this supplement to AsphaltPro magazine, Astec Industries Inc. spells out its mission with all its former subsidiaries folding into OneASTEC. Perhaps one of the more surprising acquisitions in Q4 2020 was that of Volvo CE divesting its North American Blaw-Knox paver business and associated assets to Gencor Industries, an asphalt plant equipment manufacturer.

Gencor’s spokesperson provided, “We offer highway-class pavers coupled with the most extensive line of screeds to the industry; all backed by a worldclass international service network.” Those pavers include performance features such as Blaw-Kontrol and the Blaw-Knox Ultimat screed platform, which is a double-width screed that doesn’t require bolt-on extensions.

Among the mergers and divestitures are workforce development initiatives.

Hotmix Parts & Service spoke of its training, saying, “For a number of years, we have offered our Hotmix University courses to familiarize newer plant and management personnel with some of the intricacies of the hot-mix asphalt industry.” The team at Wirtgen devoted a great deal of its corporate profile explaining the nuances of its Center for Training and Technology (CTT), which has seen updates and expansions in the past few years.

You’ll see one of the areas in which we invited OEMs to share philosophies was that of environmental stewardship. OEMs are invested in helping con-

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TOP: Gencor offers the proprietary “Blaw-Kote” on its Blaw-Knox pavers, which is an environmentally friendly pre-treat system designed to aide in asphalt cleanup. BOTTOM: Reliable Asphalt Products, on page 44, is the distributor for Vulcan burners. tractors and producers reach their net zero goals. It’s natural to think of the strides made toward zero emissions at the asphalt plant, but manufacturers are looking out for your best practices at the paving site as well.

Companies like TransTech Systems out of New York, while not eligible to participate in the supplement, still offer environmental “credit” to contractors. “Most people don’t realize that TransTech’s PQI 380 assists our customers in being good stewards of the environment,” the company shared.

“Not only does the PQI 380 not emit any harmful nuclear radiation, but the primary benefits derive from its ability to help our customers build longer life roads with smoother surfaces, thereby enhancing fuel efficiency of all vehicles and reducing energy consumption.”

Also in the field, “Blaw-Knox is always looking for ways to improve performance while reducing the environmental effects normally associated with operating heavy machinery,” the company shared. They listed the example of their power-adaptive engine for reducing ambient noise pollution and improving fuel efficiency by lowering engine rpm.

These innovations and optimizations join the arsenal of product and service options available to our industry. AsphaltPro invites you to thumb through the profiles included herein for a look inside the companies bringing those options to you.

ADM Founded: 1967 Our Mission: ADM began as Panco Corporation, a manufacturer of control panels, founded in 1967 by Wayne Boyd. By the 1970s, Panco evolved into a manufacturer of asphalt plants. In 1983, Panco became ADM, manufacturing asphalt plants exclusively, with the mission of providing the industry’s most extensive sales and service support anywhere.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

ADM’s personnel are extremely dedicated to anticipating customers’ needs to provide viable asphalt plant solutions and ongoing problem solving to ensure long-term customer success. As a family owned business that refuses to operate under layers of management and other personnel infrastructure, the company is highly positioned to provide uncompromising sales and service support.

ADM’s highly knowledgeable personnel devote as much time as it takes to listen and consult with customers and prospective customers in two-way collaborations to determine specifically what customers’ production goals are, specific plant-site concerns and needs, what the local environmental standards are, to which the producer must comply, and more to determine just the right plants for customers’ needs.

Engineers and sales personnel are dedicated to understanding customers’ businesses as whole operations. Within the framework of the four series of asphalt plants ADM manufactures, they custom design a plant from the most relevant series, outfitting it with just the right components to fulfill a producer’s specific needs.

Continuing with service well after the sale, ADM personnel assist with plant set-up to get the plant running and to keep it running throughout its life. For set-up, ADM service personnel help arrange and problem-solve plant transportation, determine the best on-site placement, offer technical set-up tips, as well as travel to the site. After set-up, this same service team helps producers troubleshoot as issues may arise, advise on maintenance, repairs, and quick-fix steps and procedures by phone and on-site.

When it comes to parts support, ADM maintains a large inventory of in-stock parts to allow quick and efficient delivery and avoid costly shutdowns.

Anticipating customers’ needs and providing the sales and service support to get customers just the right equipment and to keep it operating, is vital to the success of customers’ operations.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

ADM prides itself on its commitment to asphalt sustainability, from reduce to reuse to recycle. The company’s commitment to sustainability greatly benefits the producers ADM serves.

Every plant ADM manufactures is designed to allow producers the use of RAP in their hot mix. Depending on the plant series purchased, producers may use up to 50% RAP. Recycled material in the mix significantly impacts producers’ bottom lines for higher returns on investment (ROI).

ADM asphalt plants fitted with baghouses go even further to improve ROI, since the baghouse allows fines to be reintroduced into the hot mix. In that way, baghouses also save producers in material costs along with reducing material itself.

ADM plants eliminate blue smoke and hydrocarbon emissions, allowing producers to meet strict environmental regulations, while ADM Warm-Mix Systems allow for the production of mix at reduced temperatures, thus allowing for a reduction in power and fuel.

Further demonstrating ADM’s reduce and reuse policies, the company’s engineers carefully spec the steel used in the manufacture of its asphalt plants and design the plants to use most of the steel purchased, with very little scrap, and highly reduced waste. What little scrap is left, is collected and stored on ADM’s lot until sufficient quantities are available to send out for recycling.

ADM also manufactures its plants and components using recycled steel that has been melted down for reuse in new-product manufacturing. The strength and durability of the steel used in ADM hot-mix asphalt plants is of such high quality, that with proper and ongoing plant maintenance, producers may rest assured of significant and long-lasting plant life.

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With asphalt plants that can take up to 50% RAP and output up to 425 tph, depending on the particular plant, ADM enables producers increased capacities and maximum production to help them get the winning bid.

Winning bids are accomplished for producers in a variety of ways, starting with their ability to supply asphalt on a timely and consistent basis at pricing the market can afford. The greater a producer’s ability to keep operating costs low, the better their businesses are positioned to offer competitive asphalt pricing to the marketplace.

ADM helps producers keep their pricing competitive from the moment a producer purchases an ADM plant. That’s because ADM plants are more competitively priced than other brands on the market. Lower equipment prices help producers realize much faster returns on investment, which in turn, helps them more competitively price their own hot-mix asphalt product. By design, ADM operates under a lean business model, in order to offer producers more competitively priced equipment, and ultimately win bids.

ADM asphalt plants and components also help producers keep operating costs lower, admasphaltplants.com and ROI higher, by providing equipment that is designed (or can be fitted) to use more RAP, 260-637-5729 reintroduce fines into the mix (saving on material costs), and use less fuel through warmmix production. All of this adds up to winning bids for the producers that ADM serves.

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ALMIX Founded: 1952 Our Mission: We manufacture the most durably built and detailoriented line of asphalt plants and asphalt equipment on the market.

Everything we make is designed from our customers’ perspective, fully customized for each operation and built to last.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

Our two most important products are the foundation on which our company is built: our drum mix asphalt plants and batch mix asphalt plants. ALmix manufactures a complete line of both styles of plants as well as a full line of auxiliary equipment and world-class control systems for each plant type. ALmix drum mix plants and batch mix plants are available in both relocatable and portable setups, and in a range of sizes designed to fit the production needs of any contractor.

Over the past several decades, we have continuously worked to make our plants stronger, safer, more efficient and more profitable for their owners. We understand that these plants are vital investments for our customer’s business—an investment that can be a game-changer for their future. That’s why we build these plants to fit their exact requirements, load them with the features that we’ve developed through the years from the perspective of our customers, and continue to stand by their side for ongoing service and support. Building the best asphalt plants and asphalt plant equipment is more than just a business to us—it’s in our DNA. That’s why we take the time to listen, to understand and to consult our customers through each plant purchase, ensuring that they get exactly what they need, every time.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

At ALmix, we manufacture a variety of products designed to assist in our customer’s efforts to protect the environment, and to go above and beyond regulations as part of a good neighbor policy. We understand that what’s good for the sustainability of our resources and our environment is also good for business. These sustainability-focused products include our award-winning RAP equipment, blue smoke capture systems, reverse air baghouses, warm mix systems and more. We constantly strive to maximize efficiencies across every piece of equipment at the plant, leading to savings in power, fuel and plant emissions. At ALmix, we are focused on building plants that are better for our both our customers’ bottom line as well as the environments in which they operate.

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Helping customers of all sizes find success is simple when you’ve been around for nearly 70 years. Being in the industry as long as we have, we’ve learned how to consult each of our customers individually through the strategic process plant ownership. Whether we are dealing with a first-time buyer or a seasoned, multiple-plant owner, we understand the unique challenges of their situation because chances are, we’ve been there before. Our knowledge of local regulations and ability to customize our equipment to fit any contractor’s needs results in our customers maximizing the value of their dollar. Our service after the sale and remote program support help to ensure that each plant is running in top shape so that our customers can focus on producing more tons.

Through the years we’ve learned that in order for our business to succeed, each and every plant we sell must be a successful investment for the owner. That’s why almix.com when you do business with ALmix, the relationship starts with careful listening and 260-672-3004 carries far beyond the sale of equipment. We see each customer as a lifelong partner in business.

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Founded: 1869 Our Mission: Our company’s motto is “Productivity Partnership for a Lifetime.” Ammann works tirelessly to stay connected to customers as their needs (and businesses) evolve. Our broad range of roadbuilding products and services helps make this possible.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Ammann’s highly advanced approach to recycling was introduced to North America a few years ago.

Ammann’s recycling technology and processes are utilised in both BATCH and CONTINUOUS mixing plants. Ammann’s system enables production of high-quality mixes with recycling rates of 60%.

This provides momentum for producers in several ways.

First, final mix quality is enhanced. This is because Ammann technology differs from conventional production methods. Virgin aggregates and RAP are heated separately. This enables temperature control that prevents overheating of the binder content in RAP. Dedicated mixers provide a homogenous combination of RAP, aggregates, binder and additives.

Second, virgin aggregates ARE NOT superheated when Ammann recycling processes are employed. That means dryers, mixers and other plant equipment is not exposed to excessive temperatures or complications caused by steam expansion.

Additionally, plants using Ammann’s system have high degrees of production flexibility because they are not limited to producing only high RAP mixes.

Ammann plants can produce 100% virgin mix, as well as incremental inclusion of RAP from 10% all the way up to 60%—and beyond, if so desired.

In the end, the plants provide momentum for producers to provide highly sustainable mixes without jeopardizing mix quality or adding process complexities to overcome conventional production methods.

Obviously, Ammann is deeply committed to recycling. That includes development of a High Recycling Technology (HRT) plant. The appearance of the Ammann ABP HRT Asphalt-Mixing Plant is unique. Its entire recycling system is arranged vertically, in direct line above the mixer. This allows materials to be dropped instead of conveyed, which minimizes wear and optimises transport of the hot RAP. The HRT approach also means that there is enough room in the plant’s tower for additive feed components and for carrying out inspection and maintenance work.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

Sustainable and resilient pavements are a two-fold approach to environmental stewardship—and they go hand in hand. For example, with High Recycling Technology (HRT), producers are able to develop mixes with exceptional quality that include high RAP contents.

Much of the resistance to high RAP mixes can be easily overcome with HRT technology. It’s not a matter of magic, though. A proper understanding of how high RAP mixes are produced will dispel much of the doubt.

It comes back to the process of how the mix is made, how the ingredients are handled – and the superior, more sustainable and resilient pavement that results.

Heating, mixing and controlling the plant go a long way in making sustainable mixes. The science behind how to make a sustainable mix really shines with HRT. The HRT process makes sense when properly evaluated and analyzed. Still, it can take a little time to fully grasp and EMBRACE it.

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As some pockets of the industry moved away from batch processing, Ammann invested in it, enhanced it and remained vigilant of who wants certain mixes and why.

At Ammann, we bill our proprietary as1 Control System as the brains of the plant. The system is plenty smart—which makes an enormous impact on our customers’ businesses.

A modern control system can have a significant effect on efficiency, and that cuts across many parts of the process. Improved efficiency will lessen fuel usage, emissions and material waste. And the as1 is the best in the business at doing exactly that.

The proprietary system provides statistical data that can help you uncover trends and identify areas of strength, areas where improvement is needed, and everything in between. Built-in statistical reports are presented in an easy-to-understand format. Data can be accessed through the internet.

And let’s not forget about production. There is a great deal of value provided when the system is running the plant. It provides fully automated mix production, plus the flexibility to work in safe manual mode.

The system offers a host of other benefits including the use of unlimited recipes, automatic burner control, dynamic in-flight correction abilities and full integration of electrically heated bitumen storage tanks.

A series of modules, which offers a specific area of focus, are available as ammann.com/us-en/mix-masters well. These modules can help deliver even more value.

717-594-8437 The as1 makes it easy for operators of all experience levels to succeed— and for production and quality goals to be met, too.

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ASTEC INDUSTRIES INC. Founded: 1972 Our Mission: Our Purpose is Built to Connect with a supporting Vision to connect people, processes and products, advancing innovative solutions from rock to road as OneASTEC. Astec was founded on innovation and a passion to help customers succeed. Innovation is in our DNA.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

A few examples of products and improvements recently brought to market: Expanded Double Barrel Lineup: The Double Barrel drum dryer/mixer delivers guaranteed productivity and top-quality mixes while keeping operating costs per ton of mix low and meeting the most stringent environmental codes. The Double Barrel drum dryer/mixer revolutionized the market with its ability to handle RAP effectively and efficiently with a unique drum-within-a-drum style and an exclusive sequential mixing process.

Today’s Double Barrel drums still rely on sequential mixing to deliver high quality mix while continuing to advance mixing technology with the addition of patented V-Flights and the expansion of the Double Barrel product line with the Double Barrel X and the Double Barrel XHR, which can handle high RAP mixes of up to 70%.

SB-3000 SHUTTLE BUGGY® MTV: Powerful and practical, the SB-3000 is a familiar yet entirely re-invented Shuttle Buggy. This Material Transfer Vehicle stores and transfers hot-mixed asphalt material from truck to paver for non-stop paving, while enhancing safety, comfort, and productivity.

The anti-segregation auger remixes material just before delivery to the paver and the 35-ton storage capacity allows trucks to unload HMA immediately.

Engine, fluid checks, and other important daily maintenance items are at ground level for safe and easy maintenance access. Bright, LED lights illuminate the wheels, egress ladder, and operator platforms. The main operator is closer to the action while maintaining excellent site lines, and the ground operator is protected inside the structure of the machine.

FT4250CC Mobile Impactor Plant: Astec announced the launch of its hybrid-powered FT4250CC mobile impactor plant, with an added pre-screen, at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2020. The new, two-deck pre-screen minimizes the amount of undersized material that passes through the chamber, reducing wear costs and increasing the amount of final product by up to 30%. The hybrid power option allows producers to operate using either line power or diesel fuel.

SAFETY IN THE INDUSTRY

Safety is the first of our core values (Safety, Integrity, Respect, Innovation and Devotion) embedded within our OneASTEC business model. We believe it is important to nurture a culture of safety with an unyielding desire to “Strive for Zero Harm.” It starts with our employees who are empowered to hold management and each other accountable with our Speak Up Listen Up program. We encourage our employees to point out concerns and make suggestions for improvement.

Safety data is tracked in real-time through a safety management software. The data translates into our safety KPIs which are discussed at all levels of the business from pre-shift huddles on the shop floor to our weekly executive meetings. Our safety managers also use the data to identify issues, develop solutions and share best practices which are also communicated to employees via a safety newsletter.

In addition, the company invests in personal protective equipment and regular training for our employees. New hires must first attend approximately 12 hours of training and pass proficiency tests before going to work. They also wear a red hat during the probationary period so that extra attention can be given to them as they learn on the job.

Our efforts are paying off with Liberty Mutual recently recognizing us with 6 silver and 2 gold safety awards for exceeding BLS industry rates. While we are proud, we know we can always do better. We regularly participate in third-party audits and seek out new ideas to improve our safety practices.

Lastly, we believe that our core value of safety extends to our families and the end-user of our products—this is our value chain of safety and our endless pursuit to Zero Harm.

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With our many innovative products, proven by a century of work, Astec has a long history serving customers within the rock to road community and has made significant long-standing connections. Our commitment to helping our customer drove the decision to unify as one company.

Our organization’s former brands, including Astec Inc., Carlson, Heatec, KPI-JCI and Astec Mobile Screens, Peterson, and Roadtec, took on the Astec name and no longer operate as separate subsidiary companies. The unification makes it simpler to do business with Astec and allows us to better focus on customer success. Following the unification, we look forward to growing as a partner to the customers we serve in the asphalt mixing and road building sectors.

“We made the decision to unify to make it easier for our dealers and customers to do business with us. By coming together as one organization, we can offer greater customer service and drive innovation,” said Barry Ruffalo, president and CEO of Astec Industries Inc. “The rebrand enables us to build our strength together under one common name and purpose. We can better leverage our growth as one Astec team rather than individual brands.”

In addition, Astec has invested in a reinvigorated new product development process.

From the beginning, Astec has emphasized innovation as a means to serve our customastecindustries.com ers. As we move forward as one unified company, we are accelerating our innovation journey with a focus on connectivity. As has always been the case, continuous input from our customers is included during all points in the innovation process.

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BOMAG Founded: 1957 Our Mission: Bopparder Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft, shortened to BOMAG, was founded in 1957 by Karl Heinz Schwamborn in Boppard, Germany, based on a new design model of a double vibratory roller. BOMAG Americas, owned by The Fayat Group, offers full range of products in Asphalt & Milling, soil/asphalt/ landfill Compaction, Recycling & Stabilization, & Landfill Management Equipment.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

We are the Global Leader in Road Construction solutions & recognized for the best application knowledge, technology, and service.

That is simply the BOMAG Americas motto. BOMAG Americas is not a full line construction OEM, but a specialized global leader in the road construction industry with laser precision. Our products do not serve dual purposes but are specifically designed and engineered for road building. Our engineers are wholly focused on machines designed for road building application with infrastructure crew inputs throughout product development. Our team members think, live, and breathe the road lifecycle. There are only road building products in our portfolio and that is our core and only business.

BOMAG Americas’ single-mindedness on road building and construction allows for concentrated emphasis on innovations in technology improvements. Our engineers and product development teams are the leaders in intelligent compaction, asphalt technology, hybrid & alternative fuel solutions across the globe with hundreds of patents.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

BOMAP Connect is the leading solution for cloud-based, real-time intelligent compaction data. The app displays compaction progress on the operator’s own smartphone or tablet, reducing passes by up to 30% and cutting costs and CO2 emissions. In addition, BOMAP Connect is a cloud-based solution that offers networked control and documentation of all machines involved in compaction on the construction site. As well as several design advantages, the latest generation of BOMAG compactors is particularly impressive thanks to its higher efficiency, low operation costs, and even better driving comfort. The new hydrostatic travel system automatically ensures high efficiency, while ECOMODE and ECOSTOP reduce fuel consumption and wear.

The fully autonomous ROBOMAG tandem roller, developed by BOMAG in cooperation with the Technical University of Kaiserslautern as a technology study. In addition to other innovations, such as the BF 200 commercial paver and a digital maintenance concept called “Remote Service Assistant,” BOMAG was focusing primarily on alternative drive concepts. The BW 174 AP hybrid tandem roller combines a diesel engine, hydraulic accumulator and a combomag.com/ww-en/machinery/categories/ paction system into one highly efficient system solution that saves up to 20% fuel. www.THeAsphaltpro.com // 39

B&S LIGHT INDUSTRIES Incorporated: 10/14/1982 Our Mission: To offer affordable asphalt plant controls that are dependable, logical and easy to learn as well as providing exceptional accuracy and the capability to meet the most stringent contract requirements.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS Reliability that instills the confidence to motivate more competitive bids and consequent contract awards.

Technical support and knowledge that goes beyond just our systems.

SAFETY IN THE INDUSTRY Inherent in our designs are protection features such as dedicated built-in hardware “dead man timers” that detect computer failure and shut down the plant/process immediately as alternative for the disabled computer safety features.

MIXING IN A WINNING BID By providing reliable asphalt plant controls with consistent operational real-time availability and unmatched accuracy by way of precise inject timing of all process materials during startup as well as during sequential on the fly mix changes.

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CWMF Founded: 1968 Our mission: We go the extra mile to provide exceptional asphalt equipment solutions and service.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS In the asphalt industry, the two most important products that CWMF provides to their customers are the Drum and Baghouse as a package. The entire plant as a whole, is important, but these two components are where production is made. Getting these components to run in harmony at optimal levels will yield high-end production rates at the lowest cost per ton achievable. With an efficient flighting design in the dryer, coupled with a VFD, the end-user is now capable of having complete control of their baghouse and mix temperatures.

In addition to equipment, service is the key to a successful result between the customer and OEM. CWMF strives to ensure we meet these expectations. We do this through good communication and follow-through. If you are clear about what you will be providing and follow through with it, the result should be nothing but positive.

Service and reliable, efficient equipment are vital to our customer’s success. The hot mix plant is just one entity of the road-building process. Unreliable equipment and delinquent service have no place in a successful outcome.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT It is not a secret that asphalt is a recycled product. However, most people do not realize that asphalt is the number-one most recycled material in the world! This industry has also been very innovative in utilizing other foreign products into mix designs. These products may include seashells, crushed glass, roofing shingles, ground tire rubber, plastics, steel slag, and many others. Today, with the help of rejuvenators and additives, contractors can increase the amount of RAP that they use in a mix. CWMF has worked closely with its customer base to engineer its rotary drum, so it can be capable of handling higher amounts of RAP input. CWMF is proud to be working in an industry that is at the top of the list of recyclable products.

MIXING IN A WINNING BID CWMF plays its part in the winning bid by continuing to educate our customers. Teaching our customers about where efficiencies are gained or lost is imperative in production. Often a simple spreadsheet to show potential financial gains/losses can be very effective in getting an operation to change a previous way of doing things or to adjust to a more efficient way of doing things. Also, we encourage all of our customers to follow a regular maintenance policy.

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GENCOR INDUSTRIES INC. Founded: 1968 Our Mission: Gencor Industries Inc. was formed by the merger of Mechtron Corporation with General Combustion Inc. and Genco Manufacturing Inc. in 1968: • To be the unquestionable technological and market share leader in the industries we serve.

• To exceed customer expectations in all aspects.

• To be a good neighbor and a positive influence in the lives of people in the community in which we live and work.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

The new Gencor G-Series is the latest innovation in small portable hot mix plants providing contractors with all the features of Gencor’s award winning Ultraplant® in a smaller compact highly mobile plant that can be erected and operational virtually anywhere. Available in 150 and 200 U.S. tons per hour of hot mix asphalt.

Built around the unique patented counterflow Ultradrum® technology, proven in 100’s of applications around the globe for producing high quality hot mix without degradation, cleanly, and efficiently. The Ultradrum® flight design concept provides for the highest efficiency heat exchange between the aggregates and the combustion system making it the most efficient drum mixer in the industry. Each flight section is designed for maximum wear life, low maintenance and results in even drum loading.

The isolated mixing section is located behind the burner so there is no chance of liquid asphalt coming in contact with the burner flame.

This means there is no oxidation of the asphalt, no degradation of the mix, and no asphalt vapors entering the exhaust gas stream.

The Astraflame burner achieves complete, efficient combustion without the use of refractory heads or combustion chambers. As a result, more of the BTU heating value of the available fuel applied directly to the drying process without unnecessary heat loss making it one of the most efficient burner applied to rotary aggregate dryers.

A standard 4-bin cold feed system, with variable speed independent feeders (VDF) and collector, provide accurate flow of aggregates to meet any mix specification. Features such as standard self-leveling telescopic legs and crank-down landing gear can accommodate any type of terrain and allows 180 degree arrangement to the screen.

The G Series also includes Gencor’s proven and highly portable silo that erects in minutes and provides an easy hot mix surge alternative without sacrificing storage capacity.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

Gencor’s green products lead the industry in warm mix asphalt production and asphalt plant fuel savings. The Gencor Ultrafoam GX2™ warm mix system has a simple, robust and reliable method of injecting steam into the foaming process to produce warm mix asphalt. The Vector™ burner control is a fully automatic digital control system that minimizes fuel usage and gas emissions while maximizing production capacity. Gencor’s Ultraplant™ has taken top honors year after year for being the only hot mix plant with a positive volatile capture and recovery system that totally eliminates blue smoke and asphalt odors from the process and feeds them to the combustion process as fuel.

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Gencor Ultradrum plants make HMA in a continuous operation and can store the asphalt in heated storage silos. Gencor’s Ultraplant™ concept is the most fuel efficient, environmentally clean and lowest maintenance design available to the hot mix industry. A totally integrated drum concept that allows high production continuous mix with high-volume, high moisture recycle and the optional flexibility of feeding a batch tower, all in a unitized drum design.

Gencor’s Ultraplant™ has taken top honors year after year for being the only hot mix plant with a positive volatile capture and recovery system that totally eliminates blue smoke and asphalt odors from the process and feeds them to the combustion process as fuel.

As a result, Gencor plants have been accepted in the most stringent and environmentally sensitive areas of the country, producing high quality polymer and Superpave mixes.

The Gencor Ultraplant™ combines simple design with the most advanced control techgencor.com nology and massive heavy construction unmatched in the industry.

(407) 290-6000 Gencor Ultraplant™ helps contractors every year earn the most prestigious industry awards.

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MEEKER EQUIPMENT CO. INC. Founded: 1986 Our Mission: We also own Hamilton Tanks LLC, Inferno-therm (burners and tanks), and Construction Parts (wear parts). Our mission is to design, manufacture, and support the best asphalt equipment to the market. We continually aim to exceed our customers’ expectations in all we do. We desire a safe working environment to our employees and a profitable business to our shareholders.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Our company can be best described as the “home remodeler” for your asphalt plant. We help asphalt plant customers to improve efficiency through fuel saving, cost cutting, better methods or longer life products. Many times, we will provide turn-key solutions as more asphalt plants have minimized in-house talent to mechanically install or wire new equipment.

We have recently introduced a single clamshell 36" door opening on our hot mix storage silos. This is truly mass flow through the silo gates as more asphalt material is discharged through the gate without the “spraying” effect of smaller gate openings.

We are known for quality asphalt tanks and very fuel-efficient hot oil heaters. We manufacture asphalt tanks with cone bottoms to empty all the asphalt from the tanks. This is a relatively new design and is proving positive results with polymer modified asphalts and other blended liquid AC products. On our flat-bottomed tanks, we insulate the bottom of the tank, whereas most others have none leaving a space for heat to dissipate.

We have a patented RAP drying process that allows customers to increase their RAP to mixes. This coupled with our rejuvenator pump skids allow plants to increase RAP in mixes and to maintain quality products.

SAFETY IN THE INDUSTRY

Years ago, Meeker introduced the first asphalt tank valve control and tank monitoring system to the industry. We call it Liquid Vision. It is the original product designed to control all the asphalt valves on a plant tank farm and to monitor liquid levels in the tanks.

The valve control allows plant operators to stay away from the hot pipes and valves that go with a tank farm by having the valves automated. By having the valves controlled logically, this greatly minimizes the chance of using the wrong liquid in a mix or cross contaminating tanks with two different grades of liquid.

The tank monitoring allows operators and truck drivers to easily see levels in the tanks. This makes for more efficient ordering of liquid AC from the terminal and allows the person unloading the AC to make sure the correct liquid goes in the proper tank and allows the person to know how much space is left in the tank.

All of these tools in the Liquid Vision allow for a safer workplace for employees, customers, and visitors.

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We strive to listen carefully to our customers. Each plant and each customer has its own unique set of circumstances. When one product works for one plant, it doesn’t necessarily work for another plant down the street. It’s up to us to learn what they are and help the customer implement products and/or methods to improve profitability.

Many plants have external pressures from neighbors and government agencies to help with quality-of-life issues. We understand these external pressures and work with customers to help asphalt plants with vapor recovery systems, meekerequipment.com tank venting systems, quiet burners with our Infern-o-therm line of products, 717-667-6000 x 120 and RAP systems to help profitability and environmental stewardship. reducing downtime will have a positive impact on the bottom line.

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R E L I A B L E AS P H A LT P R O D U C T S Founded: 2002 Our Mission: Reliable Asphalt Products Inc. was founded by Charles Grote III and Mike Mauzy in February of 2002. As the co-founders of a customer driven business, Charles and Mike developed the motto that “Every Company’s Greatest Asset is its Customers, Because Without Customers There is No Company.”

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Even though Reliable Asphalt Products prides itself on supplying everything for an asphalt plant, MINDS asphalt plant automation and Vulcan burners have risen to the surface as highly sought-after plant upgrades. Reliable is the authorized dealer for these industry changing products. While providing front line support and the manual clean out panels for MINDS in the eastern half of the U.S., Reliable has supplied and installed over 100 systems in the past few years. Reliable has also coordinated and hosted annual MINDS user training schools that have been attended by 25-30 producer companies annually for the past 4 years. Vulcan burners have been a more recent addition to the Reliable product line. Originally invented and introduced to the hotmix plant market in England, the inventors of Vulcan burner decided to expand to the U.S. market. In 2019, Vulcan partnered with Reliable to install the first U.S. Vulcan burner at Sunbelt Paving in Auburn Georgia. Immediately, the burner exceeded expectations regarding fuel consumption and emissions. Since that initial installation, Reliable has sold and installed nearly a dozen more, and all are exceeding expectations. Meanwhile, Reliable has reached an agreement with Vulcan to be the sole distributor, manufacturer, and parts and maintenance supplier in the U.S. Much like with MINDS automation, the demand for the Vulcan burner indicates that this innovative product will soon be an industry standard.

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Over the years, the asphalt industry has become increasingly more environmentally conscience, and Reliable Asphalt Products has developed many products to meet these eco-friendly improvements. Reliable is an industry leader in supplying and repurposing used and reconditioned asphalt plant equipment. Obviously, this reduces the need for new manufactured equipment. Asphalt is the world’s most recycled product, and Reliable offers a full line of equipment and innovations to increase usage of reclaimed asphalt into the final mix. As already mentioned, both MINDS plant automation and Vulcan burners improve production and efficiency of existing plants. Due to the precise calibrations of MINDS plant automation, waste in the process is minimized. The patented Vulcan burner is already an industry leader as a low NOx burner. The Vulcan burner typically requires less horsepower than the competition and is designed to efficiently burn multiple fuels. In addition to these environmentally friendly products, Reliable is in the late stages of research and development of a patented reclaimed asphalt dryer known as RAP Saver. Over the past 15 years, Reliable has been steadily working with the industry in developing an environmentally friendly system for extracting moisture from reclaimed asphalt. Reclaimed asphalt moisture causes severe production issues for an asphalt plant. As usage of reclaimed asphalt increases, fuel efficiency and production decrease in a conventional asphalt plant arrangement. Reliable’s efforts have focused on removing a portion of that moisture prior to injecting the reclaimed asphalt into the plant, thereby increasing plant production while decreasing fuel usage. Although Reliable has not brought this product to market yet, it is in the late stages of development and is currently operating on an existing high production asphalt plant. Reliable Asphalt plans to make this product another industry standard in the near future.

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Asphalt plant downtime is one of the biggest concerns of the asphalt production industry. Reliable knows full well that a down plant with trucks waiting is an emergency that needs immediate attention. Reliable offers a full inventory of parts for immediate shipment with the focus on items that historically cause plant shutdowns. Reliable regularly ships parts overnight for next day installation and operation. MINDS automation is also a key combatant of plant down time. Remote plant diagnostics allows for immediate plant operation access regardless of the location of the Reliable service technician. Plant downtime is primarily due to a plant mechanical issue. MINDS automation taps into several monitoring devices on the plant to immediately diagnose the problematic mechanical issue. Minds offers an emergency kit with key replacement hardware parts for the system as well. The Vulcan burner also minimizes downtime due to the design simplicity. Reliable stocks all Vulcan burner replacement parts available for immediate shipment and encourages Vulcan burner owners to stock replacement parts as well. Reliable recently developed a PLC driven touch screen hot oil heater control panel that diagnoses the entire liquid AC and heating system. This panel is retrofittable to any manufactured hot oil heater and alerts the plant personnel in the event of any heating, tank level or flow issues that often cause plant downtime. Although this product was developed less than 2 years ago, Reliable has already installed over 40 panels and the demand is growing. Reliable offers 24-hour telephone access for all requests, inreliableasphalt.com cluding MINDS automation and plant diagnostics. All these measures 866-647-1782 are in place because Reliable realizes the importance of immediate customer service for minimizing down time.

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S A P P H I R E G AS S O L U T I O N S Founded: 2020 Our Mission: Sapphire's mission is to ensure natural gas delivery when pipeline infrastructure is constrained or unavailable. With over 60 years of experience in natural gas service and transportation, our management team provides turnkey CNG, LNG, and RNG solutions that promote safe, reliable, clean energy for our customers and communities.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS' NEEDS

Sapphire's most important service is a complete turnkey solution for our asphalt customers with facilities or locations removed from pipeline infrastructure. Sapphire excels at creating and implementing CNG, LNG, or CNG/ LNG combination as a fuel source for power generation, heaters, burners, fleet vehicles, and heavy machinery fueling for customers with one or multiple locations.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

Sapphire provides a complete solution to move our customers to clean-burning compressed or liquified natural gas. By replacing refined fuel oil (RFO) or waste oil with natural gas, cleaner fuel is burned, reducing carbon emissions, and increasing sustainability of plant operations.

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The dense energy content of LNG or CNG allows large quantities of energy to be transported and stored on location, so it is ready to be used the instant tonnage is needed. Sapphire's modular equipment allows for flexible and transportable storage based on our customers' changing needs and demands.

sapphiregassolutions.com 214-433-1332

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S TA N S T E E L AS P H A LT P L A N T P R O D U C T S Founded: 1938 Our company motto is: “We make your plants run better.”

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

Over the last 40+ years, Stansteel has innovated very advanced electronic control systems for hot mix asphalt plants. These products are a wide range and can be everything as comprehensive as the patented Accu-TrackTM Advantage control system down to an individual electronic device to help the plant either remotely monitor its operation or alert the plant operators even when they’re not present at the facility.

The Accu-Track Advantage is like an autopilot for the plant. Since the plant operator has scores of duties in keeping the operation and communications with the various customers and paving crews, this total-plant control system allows tracking of up to hundreds of points on the asphalt plant and relieves the operator from mundane duties. It can also track and alert for liquid asphalt deviation, material feed deviation and, due to the accumulated knowledge and experience of controlling plants, helps minimize waste on the part of the plant operation. With the Accu-Track Advantage, gone are the days when 10, 20 or 40 tons of mix must be wasted until it “gets right.”

Another industry leading Stansteel product was specifically designed to help protect an asphalt plant’s most precious asset: the people who work there. Our Safe-T Station/AC Verification Station is a safe collection method for obtaining hot liquid AC samples from a pressurized line. Operators and QC/lab staff can easily and safely collect samples for testing. Once installed, the Safe-T Station immediately starts preventing burn injuries by enclosing the sample collection container before discharging the hot liquid AC. Large enough to enclose a one-gallon sample, the operator can view the fill level of the collection container through the sample station’s viewing glass door. The Stansteel Safe-T Station takes safety one step further by not allowing operation of the plug valve handle unless the enclosure door is securely shut tight in the closed position.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

Since the hot mix asphalt industry is known for being the largest recycler of materials in North America, Stansteel helps bring that improved RAP utilization to the individual plant. Many important details need to be addressed for the integration of recycle, particularly to existing plants. For instance, there are different options on drum plants or batch plants to transform them from being able to run a minimal 10% or 15% RAP up to 50% or more. This can be done even on asphalt plants that are 50 years old.

By safely and sustainably upgrading these existing plants, the customer can often keep all their environmental permits in place and not further disrupt environmental concerns by modification, changing and removal and disposal of an older model plant just to buy new equipment. Stansteel has, over the last 20 years, introduced the Stansteel Green Line to the industry, which enables a series of products to help upgrade virtually any type of asphalt plant.

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Integration and upgrading of customers’ existing plants is one of the specialties of Stansteel. By integration, we mean improving plant performance without expenditure of millions of dollars. Often, OEMs encourage hot mix producers to scrap everything you have and replace it with a new hot mix asphalt plant.

As plant equipment ages, it can put the company at a competitive disadvantage; for example, by not being able to run recycle, not being able to run high production rates, lack tons of storage of either hot mix asphalt or liquid asphalt or just suffer from the wear and inefficiency of old equipment such as dryers or slat conveyors.

By applying our extensive engineering experience and hundreds of years of accumulated knowledge and experience of plants, Stansteel assists contractors everywhere to upgrade their plants with custom new, used or reconditioned components and stansteel.foleon.com/accu-track/brochure/home/ yield an extremely high return on invest502-245-1977 ment through plant renovation, strategic upgrades and innovation.

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SYS T E M S E Q U I P M E N T C O R P O R AT I O N Founded: 1987 Our Mission: To design and manufacture operator friendly industrial controls and process automation that reliably addresses the needs of the asphalt industry and to provide lifetime service and “no excuses” support for those products.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

SYSTEMS’ ADP-100 has stood the test of time and is often called “Bomb Proof.” When you choose the ADP-100 you can do it with confidence knowing that it will outlast many products at the plant and that support will be available for years to come. As plants age and get replaced we have seen our controls get transferred and updated to the new plant continuing to make mix for many seasons. With continued development on an already “bomb-proof” platform the ADP-100 has become and will remain a leader in the asphalt industry.

Customer support starts with the design, and our products show that. We try to retain a backwards compatibility so that upgrades can be done without obsoleting the entire system. SYSTEMS offers support factory direct, through select OEMs and through service-based dealers. The people at SYSTEMS who develop and build our products are the ones you get to talk to for support. Their knowledge of our products is second to none. Along with SYSTEMS’ employees, our network of people have years of experience with total plant knowledge.

We communicate with our OEMs and dealers to pool that knowledge and experience, striving to provide the best outcome for the customer. SYSTEMS offers “Real People with Real Solutions.”

Core Values: SYSTEMS’ Products Work. No Excuses • Make Promises Keep Promises • Relate to the Customer • Good Enough, Isn’t

SAFETY IN THE INDUSTRY

Knowing that equipment can fail, we believe in keeping the operator hands/eyes on and involved.

Errors and potential problems can be displayed on screens along with audible alarms for things like high silo and tank level alarms, no flow situations, motor amperages, equipment safety switches and nearly anything else that can provide us a signal.

We also offer products to keep plant personnel and truck drivers safe. With the use of stop and go lights, drivers know what scale to enter and when it is safe to do so. Audible horns for when the load is completed along with lights can give multiple indicators to when it is safe to move the truck. Our cameras can not only be used for truck identification but help to verify the truck position and making sure the scale is clear of hazards.

Remote ticket printers and signature pads can keep drivers in their vehicles, thus reducing foot traffic in and around the plant. Our Remotely Operated Test weights keep plant personnel off of ladders and man-lifts eliminating the need to haul heavy weights onto scales for calibration checks.

Easily programmed interlocks in our TSC Motors or Silo control prevents motors from being started or shutting down in the wrong sequence.

We strive to go above and beyond standards set by the NEC and UL. With everything from multiple ways of egress from structures to torqueing procedures for electrical connections we keep the customers safety in mind. Roomy well laid out control centers with large windows for operator visibility and high output LED scene/area lights, are the details that will keep the plant a safer environment for those on site. By offering a custom approach to control centers, owners/operators can help design and specify what fits their needs and concerns.

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SYSTEMS can reduce down time with reliability, ease of troubleshooting and by stocking a large inventory of replacement parts for direct, fast shipping when needed.

While many problems “show up” on the screen it is not always SYSTEMS’ product that is faulty. Our people and our service-based dealers have total plant knowledge and the ability to find the problem that is causing errors and to help correct those problems, so that through preventative maintenance, the likelihood of them returning is reduced. systemsequipment.com User friendly easily learned controls give the plant owner the opportu563-568-6387 nity to cross-train employees so that backup is readily available if the primary operator is unavailable.

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WIRTGEN GROUP Our Mission: The WIRTGEN GROUP stands for more than 550 years of experience. We owe our success to the world leading brands, Wirtgen, Vögele, Hamm and Kleemann, as well as our amazing customers whose collaboration drives our desire to provide world class innovation.

With a dealer network that covers North America coast to coast, we are “CLOSE TO OUR CUSTOMERS.”

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

Ask any contractor what is at the top of their decision-making criteria and you will hear service and support. As the world market leader in road construction, WIRTGEN GROUP provides the best application support, technical training and parts support network in the world. Wirtgen America’s Center for Training and Technology (CTT) was built to support our customers, dealers, employees and the road construction industry. This 38,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility located near Nashville, Tennessee, consists of 11 classrooms, 5 technology rooms, a 4-bay shop dedicated to training, and a 5-acre proving ground used exclusively for equipment operation training and demonstrations. At the CTT, we provide comprehensive road construction technical training. From guardrail to guardrail and 20 inches down, courses cover everything from aggregate production, to paving, compaction, and recycling of road materials. We offer unparalleled opportunities for high-quality training from industry experts, using a constantly evolving curriculum that keeps attendees in step with cutting-edge technology. CTT-educated technicians are trained to navigate job site challenges, maximizing machine efficiency and minimizing downtime. Our instructors put technical training in context, so service personnel understand not only how the machines work, but also how they work in different environments. This is the advantage our dealers and employees provide our customers every day. As Jim McEvoy, President of Wirtgen America said, “We call this a training center, but to me, this is a learning environment.”

Wirtgen America’s support network consisting of over 30 independent dealers, with 250 + locations across the US and Canada, covering our customers coast to coast. And because road construction takes place all hours of the day and night, they are available 24/7, 365 to provide parts and service. This is vital to the success of our customers and builds the trust necessary in any successful partnership. We commit to being “Close To Our Customers” with parts, service and application expertise.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

To us, sustainability isn’t simply a trend, it’s an integral part of our corporate principles. The WIRTGEN GROUP incorporates sustainability into all of our business processes. Environmental considerations are a top priority from the development and design phase of our products and a central element in all stages of the production chain—right through to the use of the machines in projects around the world. We know that the future belongs to climate-friendly products, which we’re already manufacturing today.

WIRTGEN GROUP machines feature intelligent control systems and clever automatic functions to achieve maximum productivity with low fuel consumption and minimal emissions. Innovative technologies and machines proactively protect the environment—and our customers’ budgets.

Our high-quality products and technologies support environmentally friendly processes as well, like cold milling, asphalt recycling and surface mining. They’re not only green but create efficiencies for our customers through reduced trucking, recycling of existing materials and cut, crush and load operations, all reducing CO2 emissions and expenses.

WIRTGEN GROUP’s commitment to a better environment also extends to our production facilities. HAMM AG uses near-surface geothermal energy to heat and cool its office building. For this purpose, the company installed 48 geothermal probes under the employee parking lot that together generate a total of 600,000 kWh of heating energy—equivalent to around 15,850 gallons of oil—from renewable sources. And on hot summer days, the heat pump turns into a cooling unit that extracts heat from the building and “pumps” it back into the ground. This allows the company to “generate” another 200,000 kWh of additionwirtgen-group.com al cooling energy every year. Compared to conventional compression chillers, this reduces CO₂ emissions by up to 70%.

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C O M M A N D A L KO N Founded: 1976 Our Mission: Our mantra is Together We Build Amazing. Command Alkon delivers a comprehensive portfolio of solutions and collaborative supply chain experience that ensures our customers’ success in the procurement, production and delivery of asphalt and execution of asphalt paving projects and operations around the globe.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Command Alkon addresses challenges for just-in-time scheduling of orders, automated reconciliation of material and haul tickets to invoices, and real-time job costing controls for trucking and material deliveries. With our cloud-based technology platform, CONNEX, our latest technologies can extract data from asphalt delivery tickets and invoices and instantly match those tickets with invoices to automate office and field processes. By fully connecting the materials supply chain with CONNEX-enabled solutions, we can digitize 100% of the paper tickets and invoices and eliminate the time-consuming work of keying in data into spreadsheets and disparate systems. With all of the data (from jobsite equipment, trucks, and plants) captured in real time, we can deliver CONNEX-powered operational and cost insights that empower smarter decisions to optimize the delivery of materials; when materials can be delivered cheaper by decreasing idle time and waste, everybody wins – asphalt suppliers, haulers, and contractors can improve their margins.

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Command Alkon’s comprehensive suite of integrated solutions for the asphalt industry include Libra continuous drum mix automation, batch plant controls, silo loadout systems, and truck scale ticketing applications. Simple site automation technologies tie directly into these systems to keep operations flowing smoothly and put trucks on the road quickly. Enterprise service software enables central management of multiple facilities.

Dispatch and truck tracking software is available that is uniquely designed for asphalt producers, helping them to forecast, organize and manage job/truck scheduling to make commandalkon.com the most efficient use of resources and thereby improve the bottom line. The dispatch software is integrated with the plant controls and self-service kiosks, so operators bene205-879-3282 ex. 3969 fit by knowing the plant production requirements for the day, scheduled jobs, and when each truck will arrive, enabling them to boost efficiencies and get more loads out the door.

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HAULHUB TECHNOLOGIES Founded: 2015 Our Mission: HaulHub is on a mission to accelerate the digital transformation of the construction industry by listening to, and engaging with, industry stakeholders to rapidly build and deploy digital tools that enhance the productivity, coordination and transparency of the industry.

iNDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

As the industry prepares to rebuild our nation’s aging infrastructure, HaulHub is proud to partner with contractors, materials producers, and Departments of Transportation across the country. The industry’s push towards digital project delivery lays the foundation to connect industry stakeholders in real-time to help all parties make better decisions and boost efficiency. With most state DOT’s looking to deploy digital construction methods like e-Ticketing and Digital As-Builts, driven in large part by Federal Highway’s Every Day Counts initiative, HaulHub serves as the premier industry partner to make this shift a reality. As the digital future unfolds, HaulHub is on the front lines listening to the needs of the industry and building the next generation of digital tools.

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HaulHub’s suite of apps provides insights into every aspect of the construction materials supply chain. Our transportation management system provides analytics that enables a real-time assessment of bid vs. actual trucking costs. The easy-to-use tools provide field crews and management teams with actionable intel to improve operations immediately. HaulHub’s e-Ticketing solutions are revolutionizing the way materials producers, contractors, and project owners communicate. Unlocking the data associated with construction materials provides new ways of looking at customer behavior and trends and allows sales teams to operate more effectively in the marketplace. With the coming wave of infrastructure projects, the ability for management and crews to monitor and control the flow of materials onto the construction site in real-time will be a crucial differentiator for those who embrace the latest e-Construction tools.

haulhub.com 1.833.HAULHUB

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KENCO ENGINEERING INC. Our Mission: Kenco Engineering specializes in solving wear problems that cause unnecessary equipment downtime. Our parts are engineered to save money by eliminating future replacement cycles of new parts, and to reduce labor costs.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Kenco Engineering has introduced a new line of Tungsten Carbide Impregnated (TCI), extra heavy-duty augers for the asphalt industry.

Whether used as dust fines reject augers or asphalt transfer augers, Kenco’s use of our unique Tungsten Carbide Impregnation process will ensure your auger achieves the greatest possible wear life by maintaining the auger’s overall diameter for a much longer period than previously possible. Kenco’s TCI system will drastically reduce “diameter shrinkage” on the auger, thus enhancing efficiency along with wear life. Call us today for a quote!

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Asphalt producers make money by sending asphalt through the front gate. Kenco’s products, by reducing the amount of maintenance required and extending wear part life cycles, allow more “up time” for the plant and equipment. More “up time” means more days to produce or lay asphalt and more money straight to the bottom line.

kencoengineering.com 800-363-9859

Make It Last.

Protect your investment with Kenco wear parts.

Proudly manufactured in the USA since 1957, Kenco offers innovative products for the aggregate, asphalt and road building industries. Our products are designed to increase wearlife and reduce downtime on your plants and equipment.

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C O M PA N Y I N C .

Founded: 1947 Our Mission: Process Heating Company’s (PHCO’s) Lo-Density® Unitized Storage Tank Heaters, FuelOil Preheaters, Hot-Oil Heaters, and Distributor Truck Heaters provide unique electric heat benefits for asphalt plants, including lower operating costs, improved product quality, reduced maintenance, significantly longer heater life and enhanced sustainability.

ANTICIPATING OUR CUSTOMERS’ NEEDS

Lo-Density® drywell-style electric heaters offer 100% energy efficiency throughout the lifetime of the heater. This is because all energy is used to heat, compared to the inefficient burning of fossil fuels, which operate at only 85% efficiency when new — and that efficiency quickly drops to 50% to 65%. Our electric heaters typically last for more than 30 years, providing 100% efficient heat over their entire lifetime without incurring the cost of replacing fossil-fuel-fired heaters every 8 to 10 years.

Additionally, because these unique drywell-style heaters dissipate controlled heat as low as three watts per square inch on the heater’s sheath, they prevent coking or damaging of temperature-sensitive materials — eliminating the need to drain and clean tanks. Because the drywell elements are accessible from outside of the tank, they may be serviced without draining the tank. And since electric heat requires little maintenance, these heaters can reduce downtime even further.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

Lo-Density® heaters provide unique environmental benefits that can help asphalt producers achieve sustainability goals.

Electric heat is safe, consistent, and friendly to the environment because it heats without combustion or emissions, and it eliminates a source of fuel and material spills. Electric heat offers 100% energy efficiency because all of the energy is used to heat, when compared to the inefficient burning of fossil fuels. In addition, the efficiency will always be 100%, even after many years of operation, without costly maintenance. Electric heat also eliminates stacks that must be monitored for emissions, along with eliminating expensive air quality and boiler permits that must be processheating.com pursued and maintained. Unitized Heaters can be interfaced and coordinated with other plant electri206-682-3414 cal equipment so that the load of the heaters can be reduced to base rates, thus preventing increased demand charges or peak-use rates and lowering consumption cost.

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Improve Your Product Quality

Enjoy Decades of Trouble-Free Efficiency

Reduce Your Maintenance Needs

Improve Your Sustainability

Lo-Density® Is Better!

Our 100%-efficient Lo-Density® drywell-style electric heaters provide safe, clean, reliable, and cost-effective heat — making them the best choice for heating your asphalt tanks, hot oil circulating systems, fuel oil preheaters, distributor trucks, and more.

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ASDRVIEPAT R T I SHE MTEENCT H N O L O G I E S

Founded: 2006 Our Mission: Sripath Technologies® develops, manufactures, and markets innovative asphalt additives world-wide such as, rejuvenators, grade modifiers, oils, polymers, and anti-strips to enhance the performance of asphalt in paving and roofing applications.

Our team of industry veterans have a track record for cutting edge innovation creating an excellent suite of sustainable solutions.

INDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Sripath thrives on the challenge of confronting long-standing issues facing the asphalt industry by providing innovative, simple, and easy to use additive solutions.

Maximizing the RAP/RAS content in the asphalt mix has been one of the challenges Sripath has successfully addressed. Our veteran team of technologists developed the ReLIXER™ Asphalt Rejuvenator between 2011-2013, with early roadway trials in 2014, and initial sales in 2015. Now, with a 6-year track record of clearly showing the superior economic and performance results of paving with high RAP/RAS mixes containing ReLIXER, world-wide sales continue to increase dramatically. With ReLIXER, RAP use levels of 25-40% are common and 100% RAP use is viable, significantly reducing mix costs while meeting all specifications.

PGXpand® is another transformative polymer product that substantially boosts high temperature grade and improves rutting resistance without changing the low temperature performance. Unlike traditional polymers, it is easy-to-use, requiring only low shear mixing.

Sustainability with Asphalt

NuMIXER™ and ReLIXER™ are two environmentally friendly, bio-oil based blends providing sustainable solutions that reduce the carbon footprint thru longer lasting, higher performing asphalts and the increased use of RAP and RAS. NuMIXER improves the low temperature grade of the asphalt, improves workability, and polymer compatibility.

ReLIXER is used for the rejuvenation of high RAP/RAS mixes, keeping reclaimed materials out of landfills. It rapidly penetrates and rejuvenates the old, aged asphalt, creating a reusable mix that can be easily applied. ReLIXER supports higher amounts of RAP/RAS in mixes, while maintaining sripath.com/profile key properties to meet specifications. It also contains no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) 800-562-6276 (US/Canada) and is effective at low dosage levels. By reducing dependency on virgin asphalt and aggregate, 201-721-7562 (Worldwide) ReLIXER makes Reducing, Reusing and Recycling RAP/RAS a cost-saving and easy process. With ReLIXER, the existing network of roadways becomes the next generation of mines and refineries.

Make your RAP piles pay for themselves.

Use ReLIXER™ to maximize RAP content while meeting project specifications.

Engineered, high-performance rejuvenator for High RAP & RAS mixes  Rapidly penetrates and rejuvenates. Reduces the virgin asphalt requirements in the mix.  Allows increased RAP & RAS content while aiding compaction  Improves low temperature performance, fracture toughness, aging & fatigue  100% RAP mixes with no virgin AC added are viable with outstanding performance

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TARMAC INTERNATIONAL INC.

Founded: 2000 Our Mission: Tarmac International Inc.’s mission is to provide safe and complete hot mix asphalt plant systems at the highest quality and competitive prices with installation and maintenance service.

iNDUSTRY-CHANGING INNOVATION

Innovations to our hot mix asphalt systems include: Improved maintenance features on dryers, baghouses, and drag slats.

PLC controls have been improved to allow for plant operational statistics to be available to the customer via our “Dashboard” screen. This feature is offered online giving real time data for a plant running and historical data including totals on each material run and fuel usage.

SUSTAINABILITY WITH ASPHALT

Tarmac rotary dryer systems are designed for lower fuel usage.

Several details stand out: 1. Slower gas velocity within the dryer increases heat transfer to virgin aggregate and RAP. It additionally reduces fines discharge to air pollution control equipment.

2. Our shell insulation greatly reduces exterior shell heat loss thus lower burner fuel use.

3. Updated burners and burner controls reduce CO and NOX gases leaving the dryer.

4. Dryer flight design allows the burner flames to develop without material veiling into the flame. Tarmac flights allow for easy adjustments assuring proper and efficient veiling for both wet and dry aggregate.

5. Improved bag design and bag materials reduce particulate discharge from the baghouse.

Tarmac customers improve their bottom line and produce more tons by bringing new systems online in less time from date of order to final plant commissioning.

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Product Gallery

Even More Production Equipment for More Tonnage To get consistent production, your operation requires on-spec materials delivered in a metered, measured fashion. For the savvy plant operator, perusing lists of parts and services such as what you’ll find on the next few pages is part and parcel of doing business. The plant and production related original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who provided information for this department signify by their participation that they’re engaged in educating the marketplace. They’re ready and willing to share not only their products, but also their expertise with you when you reach out for more information. Those who are also advertising partners who support this publication have live links to their favored landing page for your convenience when you view this department on our website at https://theasphaltpro.com/ departments/product-gallery/. Be sure to let these folks know you saw their information in The AsphaltPro magazine and make use of their knowledge and experience in the industry to enhance your bottom line.

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ASTEC

While almost any Astec burner can be configured for a retrofit application, Astec recently launched a new burner designed to offer several advantages for retrofit customers. When creating the new Astec Versa Jet™ burner, Astec engineers reimagined the asphalt plant burner to create a new system that takes an evolutionary leap forward. According to the manufacturer, advantages the Versa Jet burner delivers for retrofit applications include: a versatile platform that has the capacity to fire at a range of rates and can be easily configured to meet production needs, the option to reuse an existing fuel train, compatibility with virtually all drum designs without complicated drum modifications, the ability to work with existing controls, and a unique platform that permits quick setup. The versatility of the Versa Jet burner means it can also be easily relocated to a different plant if the need arises. In addition, the Versa Jet burner uses less energy

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The Versa Jet burner from Astec is designed for use in retrofit applications. than other comparable burners, according to the manufacturer.

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BROCK

BROCK, Chattanooga, Tennessee, announces Junior Lasley has joined the company as manufacturing manager. Lasley comes to BROCK after spending all 33 years of his working career at Astec Inc. At the time of his departure, he was responsible for most of the manufacturing facility that produced hotmix asphalt equipment.

Commenting on the addition of Lasley, Ben Brock, president and CEO of BROCK, said, “We are very excited and humbled to have someone of Junior’s knowledge, experience and character heading up the manufacturing arm of our company. He is an expert in his field and has been around the art of manufacturing hot-mix asphalt plant equipment for 33 years.

He is a tremendous addition to our team and will be fantastic for our customers.

“With the addition of Junior to our team we are able to allow Anthony Caldwell to focus completely on our in-field Construction Services efforts,” Brock continued. “Anthony had been leading both manufacturing and construction. These moves, along with others that will be announced soon, are only possible with the incredible support of our customers. We thank our customers, and we remain focused on providing quality products, outstanding service and great relationships.””

For more information, contact Travis Sneed at (423) 476-9900 or visit www.brock.industries.

CATERPILLAR

Caterpillar offers in the 9- to 11-tonne (10- to 12-ton) wheel loader class, the new Cat® 980 and 982 medium wheel loaders, stating they are up to 10% more productive and lower maintenance costs up to 20% when compared to the previous 980M and 982M powershift models. New to this class of medium wheel loaders, the Cat 980 XE and 982 XE models feature a Caterpillar designed and manufactured continuous variable transmission (CVT) that delivers increased fuel efficiencies up to 35% and lower maintenance costs up to 25% compared to the M series models. These new wheel loaders include an expanded technology platform to increase machine performance and improve operating efficiency, according to the manufacturer.

Standard Cat Payload with Assist on all 980 and 982 series loaders is designed to provide an accurate weighing of bucket payloads, so operators can load to target the first time every time. This new technology includes lowlift-weigh and manual tip-off functions.

For more information, visit your local CAT dealer.

COMMAND ALKON BROCK has brought a new manufacturing manager with 33 years of experience in HMA equipment on board.

Command Alkon, Birmingham, Alabama, and Libra Systems, a subsidiary of Command Alkon, are pleased to offer the Silo Safety System to ensure the safety of the driver and vehicle and eliminate loss of material in overhead silo

loadout situations. The standalone system is designed to support operations that have any type of overhead loadout scenario.

“Once the gates on the silo open, a literal ton of material, sometimes at 320 degrees Fahrenheit for asphalt loadout, is being dropped from the silo in the matter of one second,” said Greg Fleisch, Libra sales manager. “If the vehicle is not in the correct location, this puts the driver at risk for serious injury and can cause extremely expensive damage to the cab of the truck as well as lost time and materials in the production process. The Silo Safety System could more than pay for itself with the price of one accident.”

“Now that Libra Systems is under the umbrella of Command Alkon, we can offer this solution across our base of customers using Libra and Apex for asphalt and aggregate operations, as well as COMMANDbatch customers in ready mix operations to ensure safety and mitigate the risk of lost materials,” said Lori Allen, director of corporate marketing at Command Alkon.

The Silo Safety System features infrared sensors to enable each silo, if and only if, the truck is in the proper position. As the truck pulls through to the loadout station, it will break the infrared sensor beam to enable the silo to be opened. The Silo Safety System includes these important features and benefits: • Completely stand-alone system compatible for use with any overhead loadout scenario and automation system.

• Two Infrared sensor sets indicate when vehicle is appropriately placed for loading and silo gate activation.

• Three sensor set configuration allows for detection of space between cab and trailer.

• Fully graphic touch screen display indicates sensor and silo gate activation to operator.

Available with pedestal stand for desktop placement or can be panel mounted.

• Manual override mode with redundant loadout system interlock for scenarios not meeting standard vehicle and loadout situations.

• Real-time alerts indicate potential defective sensor situations.

• Stand-alone Junction Box and PLC controls ensure ease in wiring, installation, and sensor location tuning.

“This solution saved us the first day that we had it,” said Dewey East, owner and founder of Southeast Plant Services. “One of our opera-

tors tried to open the incorrect silo immediately after the installation, and the Silo Safety System prevented the gate from opening.”

For more information, visit www. commandalkon.com/getsilosafety.

CONVEYOR COMPONENTS

The Model CT, as manufactured by Conveyor Components Co., Croswell, Michigan, is comprised of a control unit and tilt probe, which is designed to sense the presence or absence of material. The cULus-listed control unit is enclosed in a cast aluminum housing with external red and green LED status indicator lights and surface mount printed circuit boards. Weatherproof, dust-ignition proof and explosion proof models are available. Optional black epoxy powder coating is available for corrosive environments. The tilt level controllers (CT-105, CT-106 or CT107) have an intrinsically safe output to the tilt probe and are cULus listed as intrinsically safe when used with the cULus-listed tilt probes, according to the manufacturer.

The Model CT is commonly used when other controls won’t work due to bin vibration, or actual bin walls aren’t available for mounting other controls. Typical applications include level detection in hoppers, silos, stackers, crushers and conveyor transfer points.

The CT tilt probes are available as a compact 6-inch tilt probe or the standard 9-inch tilt probe and have 25 feet of electrical cable. Stainless steel probe housings are available as an option. Float ball and paddle accessories are also available for fine-grain materials.

For more information, contact Conveyor Components Company at (800) 233-3233.

“As a labor management platform, we’re connecting the whole team across the field and office, to optimize daily workflow and communication, especially for the foreman and project manager,” said Di-Ann Eisnor, CEO and co-founder of Core. “We spoke to over 5,000 trade professionals and 50 GCs to understand how we could best serve them—what we heard was an overwhelming need for better communication among crews and between the field and office. This feedback inspired us to develop a labor management and communications platform that supports productivity on the jobsite every day and reduces friction for everyone on the team.”

Across the world’s largest industry, construction, 52% of rework is caused by poor project data and miscommunication. This amounts to $31 billion in wasted investment in the United States alone. When combined with a 430,000-worker labor gap cited by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the need for a worker-employer solution is imperative.

Crews by Core Pro LaborOS connects teams in a single system on desktop and/ or mobile. Project managers and general superintendents have access to managing thousands of tasks, keeping foreman and crews efficient and organized.

CWMF

The Wedge-Lok™ Tire Suspension System from CWMF Inc., Waite Park, Minnesota, has been in use for over 25 years. The design allows the end user to secure the tire to the drum and eliminate tire slippage by simply adjusting setscrews. The inclined plane mechanism provides superb holding strength and there is no need to apply shim stock, according to the

CORE

Core, headquartered in Palo Alto, California, announced the launch of Crews by Core Pro, a Labor Operating System (LaborOS). This new, single solution platform offers the capability to hire, and manage crews with a task and labor management tool that syncs with your existing systems, to get labor onsite, improve communication and reduce rework. Since its launch September 2020, the construction labor marketplace has matched hundreds of companies with thousands of workers, all with the help of technology and built-in algorithms that leverage keyword search for both jobs and workers.

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Product Gallery manufacturer. A secured and balance tire extends the life expectancy and reduces costly downtime. CWMF will be introducing a new featured video onto their website (summer 2021), which will demonstrate how to properly install the Wedge-Lok™ Tire Suspension System.

For more information, contact sales@ cwmfcorp.com or visit www.cwmfcorp.com.

DUREX

Durex Products Inc., Luck, Wisconsin, a manufacturer of wire and polyurethane screen media technologies, announces its recent hire of Bob Doll, who joins as a regional sales manager covering the Eastern United States.

“As an effort to increase our Eastern U.S. market presence, we are excited to have Bob onboard,” said Chad Hackett, president of Durex Products. “Bob brings with him many years of industry knowledge and sales expertise that will be very beneficial to our customers.”

Doll comes to Durex as an industry veteran with 43 years of experience in crushing and screening, working for W.S Tyler, Metso, Buffalo Wire Works, and McCourt and Sons Equipment.

For more information, contact Durex Products at (715) 472-2111.

EVOQUIP

Powerscreen Crushing and Screening, the authorized distributor for EvoQuip’s compact mobile crushing and screening equipment for Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Indiana has opened a new facility that encompasses a five-acre site with office, warehouse and workshop facilities in Indianapolis, Indiana. Heading up the new facility is Connor Cobane, originally from Carrickmore, Northern Ireland, a region well-known for being a center of crushing and screening manufacturing worldwide.

KUBOTA

Kubota Engine America, Lincolnshire, Illinois, offers the newly developed D902-K, announced by Kubota Corporation’s president and representative director, Yuichi Kitao, as “Kubota's first electronically con-

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trolled diesel engine below 19 kW.” The D902-K will bolster Kubota's diesel engine line as it responds to various regional emission standards, including EPA Tier 4, Stage V, China IV standards and China's Category III national smoke regulations, which will be implemented December 2022.

The new D902-K is a three-cylinder diesel engine with a displacement of 0.898 L and an output of 18.5 kW, and it consumes approximately 5% less fuel than its current conventional model. Tomokazu Matsushita, president of Kubota Engine America, said: “Kubota’s D902-K electronically controlled engine allows manufacturers to easily replace the existing engine without the need to redesign the current machine. It will match current dimensions, structures and power takeoff of existing engine.”

Mass production is scheduled to begin in 2022.

McCloskey

McCloskey International, Keene, Ontario, has unveiled the I4C, the latest entry into McCloskey's impact crusher line. According to the manufacturer, it brings the power and productivity of a 44.3-inch (1,125-mm) impactor to a compact footprint for maximum maneuverability.

The 44-inch impact crusher has been designed with a deeper chamber, creating greater tramp release space. With an aggressive blow bar and apron design, 4-bar variable speed rotor, and three crush zones with an optional fourth strike, the I4C can be set up as a primary or secondary crusher.

A new asymmetric feeder is designed to reduce bridging that can occur in some applications and, combined with the single-unit feeder-hopper construction, delivers better motion and vibration for the material as it moves into the impact chamber.

MAJOR

MAJOR, headquartered in Candiac, Quebec, has appointed Manganese Crushtech Systems its new aggregate and mining screen media authorized dealer in Africa.

The company will serve customers in Zimbabwe. Manganese Crushtech Systems offers MAJOR’s screen media solutions, including FLEX-MAT high-vibration wire screens in tensioned and modular versions.

POWERSCREEN

Powerscreen, a Terex company, continues its decarbonisation story with its electrification strategy, including the brand-new Eco-Warrior battery powered screener.

Neil Robinson, Powerscreen product and applications manager said, “Some may view this topic as a recent trend, but for Powerscreen, decarbonisation is multi-faceted and has always been at our core. The Powerscreen mobile concept has always contributed toward decreasing the carbon footprint per tonne of material produced. This is done by reducing unnecessary material handling of hauling and loading material to static plants in aggregate production or in the ability to recycle and reuse material at point of use, for example in roadbuilding projects where sub-base material is produced in situ. Using stockpiling conveyors as part of a track mobile set-up is another perfect example of how to cut out unnecessary double handling, reducing fuel consumption and therefore carbon production.”

Powerscreen has evolved its product range to reduce environmental impact by making its crushing and screening equipment as fuel efficient as possible, using direct drive systems for its crushing range and improving engine capabilities and drive-line design for its screening range. Another important tool for its fuel efficiency is Powerscreen Pulse™, in-depth machine telematics that helps customers see how and where their machines are being operated, understand fuel consumption and carry out fault-finding activities to ensure optimised performance.

Electrification is currently a key focus of the Powerscreen decarbonisation strategy. The Powerscreen Hybrid range, designed to give customers alternative energy options to operate their range of crushing, screening and conveying equipment, has been enhanced to include more fully electric crushers and screeners as well as models powered by combinations of diesel and electricity. These options enable customers to choose which fuel to use, depending on cost, location and availability, and benefit customers who operate in an area where electricity is more cost effective than diesel fuel, where diesel engine noise is unwanted or on sites where electricity is the preferred energy source.

Neil continued, “Customers using Powerscreen Hybrid units powered off the grid have

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While our hybrid customers have traditionally been in environmentally conscious countries and states, where legislation or financial incentives are more focused on green energy, we are witnessing a significant uptake in non-traditional locations, as customers prepare to comply with increased government drives for carbon neutrality.”

Working closely with automotive technology, the Eco-Warrior battery powered screener has been designed to deliver on the powerful screening action that Powerscreen machines are famous for, while being a self-charging, or plug-in, model that features a simple, quiet engine with no after-treatment requirements, according to the manufacturer. The required engine size has been cut in half compared with the diesel hydraulic unit and the battery pack can mean emission-free running or give a power boost.

For more information, contact your local Powerscreen dealer.

The Accu-TrackTM Advantage offers total plant control with A.I. (Autopilot Integration) from Stansteel.

STANSTEEL

The Accu-TrackTM Advantage control system from Stansteel, Lexington, Kentucky, is the evolution of over 45 continuous years of upgrading combinations of logic, software and hardware to equip an asphalt plant to control machinery and systems. The result is production of better hot-mix asphalt (HMA) in a dependable, repeatable way, minimizing errors, and having a series of interlocks and safety devices to assure quality results, according to the manufacturer.

The system sends electronic signals and program instructions to a piece of equipment and performs separate and independent verification that a device is operating as instructed.

The Accu-Track Advantage has the ability to interface with any web-based device including smart phones, tablets, or desktop computers, so users can view pertinent plant data in real-time.

The controls use a Linux based operating system, which allows for the use of automatic and manual operations to ensure your plant is always running and making quality mix.

• Actively review production reports • Allows for remote viewing of plant production • Receive email alerts that help identify problem areas on plant • Remote Inventory screens and reports • Send alerts with real-time information to operations management and/or general management during an upset condition or plant breakdown.

For more information, visit https://stansteel. foleon.com/accu-track/brochure/home/

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Step 2 The fine dust passes through the ION Dust Shield before it gets to the conveyor belt.

Step 4

Step 3 Electrodes ionize the extracted fine dust as it passes through the shield.

Positively charged fine dust becomes unstable and bonds with other fine dust, forming larger, coarse particles.

Step 5

Step 1 Fine dust is extracted from the transition between the milling box and conveyor belt.

Step 5 The coarse dust particles sink onto the negatively charged housing and are removed via the conveyor belt with millings.

Bomag’s ION Dust Shield Contractors performing pavement maintenance and pavement preservation treatments strive to keep workers safe from respirable silica dust. To that end, the team at BOMAG Americas Inc., Ridgeway, South Carolina, has created a unique, patented design to not only transfer dust away from the operator(s), but also eliminate fine particles (PM 2.5, PM 10) by up to 80 percent. The ION Dust Shield positively charges fine dust particles, creating permanently bonded coarse dust. Here’s how it works: The process begins when fine dust is created during the milling operation. While water is applied directly to the milling drum to reduce dust and cool the milling teeth, many fine dust particles pass by the water at high velocity or are too small to be captured by the water droplets.

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The dust is extracted where it is generated—at the transition between the milling box and conveyor belt. A suction fan assists in pulling these particles out of the milling drum housing and into the lower conveyor. The particles are further pulled from the lower conveyor and then into the electrically charged grid of the ION Dust Shield, which is mounted onto the upper conveyor.

As the extracted fine dust particles pass through the ION Dust Shield housing and over an electrical grid, they are then positively charged.

This positive charge creates instability in the particles, causing them to bond to one another permanently. Once they become large enough that they can no longer be airborne, they fall into the negatively charged housing and are removed via the upper loading conveyor. Once on the conveyor,

the coarse particles are transferred with the millings created from the milling operation as non-hazardous coarse dust. Independent studies from the Institute of Hazardous Materials Research at Rohr University have shown reduction in the emissions of fine dust particles by up to 80 percent.

For more information, visit cold planers at www.bomag.com.

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