2023 CORPORATE PROFILES SUPPLEMENT CORPORATE PROFILES SUPPLEMENT

BY ASPHALTPROSTAFF

Editor’s Note: The staff of AsphaltPro magazine is not responsible for the opinions expressed in the Corporate Profiles supplement. Statements made have not been verified, thus producers/contractors are still encouraged to use best practices when implementing new advice or making purchasing decisions.

Since 2021, the staff at AsphaltPro magazine has brought this annual overview of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to the asphalt audience. This supplement to AsphaltPro magazine gives OEMs and service providers a chance to speak their missions directly to asphalt professionals. We posed specific questions to the partners who support us, thus your operations, and left their answers raw and real. This special section to the July edition represents an inside look at the OEMs who want to help you make the most of your business, improve your overall asphalt quality and succeed in your march toward industry net zero goals.

FORWARD-THINKING TECHNOLOGY

One of the asphalt industry’s many strengths is its ability to predict and prepare for the road ahead. Look at the innovations in fume extraction on paving equipment and silica dust reduction around milling equipment as two examples of our industry working in partnership to solve issues before they became mandates from on high. Look at the paperless ticketing kiosks companies such as Libra Systems—now under the Command Alkon umbrella—developed before a COVID-19 outbreak made them all-the-rage. Look at various cooling devices and systems employers have developed and shared long before the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) put its national emphasis program (NEP) in place.

These and other examples prove our industry has a track record of forward-thinking technology. What’s coming next? The companies participating in this year’s supplement will tell you. They’ve shared how they’re helping you step out in front of your competition in your markets with advanced designs, equipment, technologies or techniques.

Keep in mind, AsphaltPro offers more than a monthly report in this realm. Yes, we continue to bring the magazine in print 11 times per year, as the industry demands of us. We also offer the publication in digital format online, which you can receive via your email address when you subscribe online. We also provide a free toolbox topic once a week, which you can receive via your email address when you sign up for the Monday Morning Toolbox Tip. We also provide an online training course titled Asphalt Paving 101 for your new hires. I’ll let you explore TheAsphaltPro.com for more.

As we prepare to dive into our version of contract season, we introduce more robust online interactions for our partners. The digital-plus-online packages we’ve developed for partners are designed to put proactive equipment manufacturers who care about the producer’s bottom line directly in front of an engaged and educated audience. We’re not the kind of media outlet that splatters equipment releases across a page and calls it a day. We’re known for digging more deeply and sharing the nuts-and-bolts, how-to, technical in- formation for how the advanced equipment and forward-thinking intellectual property will enhance the user’s bottom line.

Sustainability With Asphalt

You’ll see one of the areas in which we invited OEMs to share philosophies was that of asphalt sustainability. OEMs are invested in helping contractors and producers reach the net zero goals of the National Asphalt Pavement Association’s The Road Forward initiative. It’s natural to think of the strides made toward zero emissions at the asphalt plant and paving zone, but manufacturers and contractors alike are looking out for the industry’s best practices when it comes to sustaining the workforce as well.

One of the methods for sustaining a workforce into the future is to encourage newcomers. AsphaltPro Magazine offers the children’s activity book, Asphalt Lane, in bulk quantities so you can distribute it to schools, scout troops and other groups where kids need to learn about the positive environmental and useful message of asphalt roadbuilding.

This activity book is only one way to engage the imagination of the next generation. You could host a local classroom field trip to your facility or take materials to a local library for a mid-summer display. Don’t forget about career day at middle and high school programs. It’s up to us to remind the communities where we operate that a career in asphalt roadbuilding is lucrative and rewarding.

I want to applaud those entities who are participating in the push toward implementing a culture of caring throughout the construction industry. Improving the mental health wellness of our workforce will not only attract a larger pool of mindful employees for one and all, but it will also increase presenteeism among those already in our ranks. By improving mental health wellness, we improve workplace safety and employee retention. We improve overall.

I encourage readers to explore the Suicide Prevention page at TheAsphaltPro.com as a launching point for mental health wellness resources and ideas. And I invite you to thumb through the profiles included herein for a look inside the companies bringing new and exciting business options to you. Let them know you saw them in the pages of AsphaltPro!

Founded: 1967

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

Categories:

• Plants/plant components pertinent to production (can include crushing equipment)

• Plant controls/automation

• Paving and/or compaction equipment/automation

• Pavement recycling/pavement reclaiming equipment

• Fleet management/telematics/hauling/ticketing software solutions

• Additives/Emulsions/Polymer blends/Fibers/Patching materials

Forward-Thinking Technology

The number-one most-important product trait that ADM brings to the asphalt marketplace is the company’s approach to the design and manufacture of its continuous-mix asphalt plants.

All of ADM’s four series of asphalt plants—the EX Series, MileMaker Series, RoadBuilder Series, and SPL Series—are designed with the utmost in operational efficiency, enabling the cost effectiveness on which producers rely for their maximum return on investment (ROI).

Many plant models allow efficient operation using just one plant operator and one loader operator, while the ability to customize any plant ADM manufactures using standard ADM components, assures just the right asphalt plant for their operations’ specific needs to streamline operational efficiencies at every level.

ADM asphalt plants are available in 60–425 TPH allowing them to operate at the specific production capacity a producer needs for greatest production-site efficiency. Depending on the plant series purchased, ADM plants can handle up-to-25% or upto-50% RAP. Recycled material in the mix significantly impacts producers’ bottom lines for higher 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 by reducing material, itself.

When it comes to meeting strict environmental standards, ADM counterflow plants are designed and manufactured for clean and efficient operation, practically eliminating blue smoke and hydrocarbon emissions. Further demonstrating operational efficiencies, ADM warm-mix systems allow for the production of mix at reduced temperatures, thus allowing for savings in power and fuel.

The materials used in the manufacturing of ADM hot-mix asphalt plants and other products is of such high quality, strength, and durability that with proper and ongoing plant maintenance, producers can expect a long and productive plant life.

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 uses recycled steel during its manufacturing processes of plants and components. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that recycled (secondary) steel production uses about 74% less energy than the (primary) production of steel from iron ore.

Founded: 1952

Mission Statement: We manufacture the most durably built and detail-oriented 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.

Categories:

• Plants/plant components pertinent to production (can include crushing equipment)

• Plant controls/automation

Forward-Thinking Technology

Our most important product is the foundation on which our company is built: our drum mix asphalt plants. ALmix manufactures a complete line of drum mix asphalt plants as well as a full line of auxiliary plant equipment and world-class total control systems, allowing contractors to get everything they need under the ALmix brand. ALmix drum 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.

Our plants help contractors take better control of their supply chain. 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 gamechanger 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.

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 sustainabilityfocused products include our award-winning RAP equipment, blue smoke capture systems, reverse air baghouses, warm mix systems, and industry-leading automation systems that provide actionable, operational data helping contractors optimize their facilities. 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 both our customers’ bottom line as well as the environments in which they operate.