Materials production & supply

How bitumen technology solutions are solving paving problems around the world This month we hear how additives can bring RAP back from the dead and fight the ravages of salt damage, how pellets reach parts that PMB can't and how Shell and WeedsWest are expanding their respective businesses - Kristina Smith writes

Shell's John Read explains adaptable bitumen developments Shell's highly innovative bitumen and asphalt solutions are helping create future-ready urban road networks around the world to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Shell's general manager of bitumen technology, Professor John Read, takes a look at some of the company's game-changing ideas. The next 30 or so years will see a significant transformation in the way we live. Whereas almost 75%...

Ammann pushes the utilisation rate of recycled asphalt even higher The Ammann team was confident it had a game-changer on its stand when the 2007 bauma exhibition opened in Munich. The company's RAH100 asphalt dryer was about to take a massive step forward for the global highway industry and to lead the market for years to come Ammann's RAH100 wasn't a simple upgrade of an existing product. It was much bigger than that. The dryer offered the ability to...