Export ‘first’ for Viafix

VIATEC UK, the Bath, south-west England-based manufacturers of road maintenance and reinstatement products, has exported its first order of the pothole repair, Viafix, to Malaysia. While on holiday in the UK last winter, Australian highway engineer John Hare saw Dorset Highways using Viafix to repair potholes in heavy rain. “He asked one of the maintenance team how they could fill potholes under such adverse conditions. The maintenance team explained about Viafix and explained how easy to use it had been,
May 30, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
Viatec staff helping load the container of Viafix,bound for Malaysia Picture Info
3476 Viatec UK, the Bath, south-west England-based manufacturers of road maintenance and reinstatement products, has exported its first order of the pothole repair, Viafix, to Malaysia.

While on holiday in the UK last winter, Australian highway engineer John Hare saw Dorset Highways using Viafix to repair potholes in heavy rain.

“He asked one of the  maintenance team how they could fill potholes under such adverse conditions. The maintenance team explained about Viafix and explained how  easy to use it had been,particularly under wet and cold conditions,” said Viatec UK.

According to the company, Viafix will permanently fix potholes on all classes of carriageway and reinstate utility cuts and ironwork surrounds. Its technical performance is said to offer skid and rutting resistance similar to that of hot bituminous materials.

John Hare contacted his wife, a senior engineer with the Malaysian Highways Authority, and she expressed an interest in the product as Malaysia is subject to a long monsoon season during which potholes and other road defects cannot be repaired.

Mike Reynolds, managing director of Viatec UK, was contacted, and following discussions a container-load of three grades of Viafix was ordered for use on Malaysia’s roads.

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