ASPHALT TECHNOLOGY
ALEX FRASER’S ANSWER
TO SUSTAINABLE ROADS ALEX FRASER IS RENEWING ITS COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE WITH THE UPCOMING LAUNCH OF ITS SECOND SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY HUB IN MELBOURNE. ROADS & INFRASTRUCTURE REPORTS. Alex Fraser Project Managers Akshay Kumar and Kate Lynch reveal a model of the new sustainable asphalt plant on site at Epping Recycling.
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lex Fraser is preparing to launch a second Sustainable Supply Hub in Melbourne’s north, increasing its capacity to supply sustainable construction material to the civil construction market. The company’s first fully integrated Sustainable Supply Hub opened in 2019, bringing together three sustainable production facilities on its Laverton site in Melbourne’s west. This Hub now annually recycles more than one million tonnes of diverse, priority waste streams into high quality, sustainable end products needed
for infrastructure development. Established in 1879, Alex Fraser is one of Melbourne’s longest running companies. Starting with metals trading and scrap metal recovery, the company has innovated and honed its recycling capabilities over the years. Today, Alex Fraser is renowned as a leading provider of sustainable construction materials, with a network of recycling and production facilities in Melbourne and Brisbane. To date, the company has recovered more than 150 million tonnes of refuse
concrete, brick, and asphalt, and more than 5.4 billion bottles worth of kerbside glass waste. These materials have been diverted from landfill and manufactured into highquality, sustainable products used to build new infrastructure, like roads, bridges, pavements, and ports. Akshay Kumar, Senior Project Manager at Alex Fraser says the company’s new development in Melbourne’s north follows the success of its first Sustainable Supply Hub in the western suburbs. A new asphalt plant is being constructed alongside the Epping Recycling Facility, transforming it roadsonline.com.au
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