VSS paves the way

March 10, 2017

VSS Macropaver has introduced its state of the art asphalt emulsion plant EP100: using a mixture of mechanical energy and chemistry it produces the asphalt emulsion used by slurry and micropaving machines on the road and takes a lot of the load off the operator

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