Sustainability and the highways sector’s image issue were two major themes at the 10th symposium of the European Asphalt Paving Association in Paris. Margo Cole reports. Sustainability was explicit or implicit in many presentations during EAPA’s biennial symposium for the paving supply chain. The industry feels that sustainability is its home territory, thanks to an already good – and getting even better - record of recycling of materials. But do buyers and users of roads realise that the design and contrac
Aggregate Industries’ Colemans Quarry site has become the first asphalt plant in the UK to make the switch to LNG, cutting both costs and carbon emissions with the help of Calor.
The site is also only the second in the world, according to Calor, and the gas provider’s first turnkey LNG installation in the UK.
Colemans Quarry, based in Somerset, south-west England, has been supplying the construction industry with building material for more than 60 years. It operates 24/7 and uses large quantities of g
A US$89.7 million finance package from the World Bank will pay for the construction of a new highway in Rwanda. The project calls for the construction of a 66.5km highway, which forms part of a larger plan to build a 117km route from Ngoma to Nyanza.
Komatsu America says the new HB365LC-3 hybrid excavator, being introduced at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017, can reduce fuel consumption by up to 20%. The cutting-edge 36tonne class model, from one of the world’s leading heavy equipment manufacturers, features improved hybrid and total-vehicle-control systems, generating that impressive double-digit reduction in fuel consumption, while maintaining or exceeding operating performance, compared to same weight class, non-hybrid excavators.
