Durable road base set for widespread use
9 - Autumn 2001
Aggregate Industries
Aggregate Industries UK Ltd and Shell Bitumen have jointly developed an innovative new base course material which is well on the road to Highways Agency approval.

Viabase - the third way?
5 - Winter 1999/2000
RMC
The Highway Agency is detrunking some roads which go to local authorities to be maintained. This presents a financial and technical challenge to already hard pressed councils. RMC has a new product to help.

BINDERS

Raising the standards bar in mastic asphalt
22 - Spring 2008
Shell Bitumen
Shell Bitumen's S Grade binders allow lower production and application temperatures in asphalt mixes, benefiting also the mastic sector.

Momentum builds in high strength asphalts
18 - Spring 2006
Lafarge
Lafarge is pushing ahead with the next generation of durable asphalts, in pilot schemes for the Highways Agency.

Airport authorities warm to hightech runway materials
18 - Spring 2006
Nynas
Clients and contractors working in the airports sector are beginning to recognise the benefits of specifying asphalt containing polymer modified bitumen binders.

How green is your blacktop?
16 - Summer 2005
Aggregate Industries
Bardon Aggregates, an Aggregate Industries business, is investigating the environmental impact of road surfacing and high performance asphalts, so that its clients can make informed decisions on the basis of sustainability.

Keeping colour pure and simple
15 - Autumn 2004
Lafarge
Innovation is enabling Lafarge Aggregates to produce top quality coloured asphalt from its mixing plant in Stevenage.

Demand drives PMB into lower layers
14 - Spring 2004
Comment by Ian Walsh of Babtie

Binder rising to the challenge
14 - Spring 2004
Nynas
Construction of an elevated roadway at the Port of Dover has added to a portfolio of demanding projects that have benefited from use of Nynas Bitumen's Nypol HR binder.

The engineer's flexible friend
13 - Autumn 2003
Aggregate Industries
Striking the right balance between binder course strength and flexibility has always been a challenge in urban areas, but Aggregate Industries believes it has found the answer.

Boosting binder technology to meet demand
11 - Winter 2002
Nynas
Further advances in bitumen binder technology are enabling modern asphalts to stay one step ahead of demands for high performance.

Changing demands bring new solution
8 - Spring 2001
Nynas
Environmental concern, greater traffic volumes and increasing axle loadings have all contributed to the call for a new generation of high performance bitumen binders.

BITUMEN

Adopting a broad view to add maximum value
22 - Spring 2008
Petroplus
A new name supplying bitumen to the UK roads sector - Petroplus - is doing a lot to add value to the supply chain

Ingenuity solves surfacing problem
18 - Spring 2006
CEMEX
Use of a spacial additive has allowed CEMEX to reconstruct a full depth of asphalt pavement during night time posessions of a busy motorway.

Airport authorities warm to hightech runway materials
18 - Spring 2006
Nynas
Clients and contractors working in the airports sector are beginning to recognise the benefits of specifying asphalt containing polymer modified bitumen binders.

Crude flexibility refines possibilities
15 - Autumn 2004
Nynas
Crude oil properties have a significant influence on bitumen characteristics and Nynas Bitumen has been expanding its feedstock knowledge to enable it to use alternative sources with confidence.

Bitumen bible is testament to change
13 - Autumn 2003
Shell Bitumen
The UK's asphalt industry has changed dramatically over the last decade and the newly updated Shell Bitumen Handbook includes information on the latest bitumen innovations.

Bitumen technology targets performance
5 - Winter 1999
Nynas
Growing need to design asphalt materials to ensure performance requirements are met is behind increasing demand for Nynas' bitumen technology and asphalt engineering services.

Supplying the best
2 - Summer 1998
Nynas
A complex production process is needed to ensure bitumen is a suitable component for today's highly engineered flexible carriageways.

Bitumen production
1 - 1997
Technology column by Nynas

BOND COATS

Gripclean builds better bonds
18 - Spring 2006
Ringway
Ringway's answer to bond coats, Gripclean, offers strength, 'non pick-up' and controlled break - and has been applied to the M11 in its largest UK use so far.

Applying the 'plywood principle' for best results
16 - Summer 2005
Nynas
Maximising carriageway strength and durability through best possible adhesion of asphalt layers lies behind Nynas Bitumen's thinking on bond coats.

BUS LANES & BUS STATIONS

Sheffield's show of strength
14 - Spring 2004
Lafarge
Fuel resistance, high strength and colour have been combined by Lafarge to form an innovative grouted asphalt which made its debut at Sheffield Transport Interchange earlier this year.

Fuel resistance goes the distance in Sunderland
9 - Autumn 2001
Nynas
Britain's largest bus station outside London might seem ambitious as the location for the first full scale trial of a new fuel resisting asphalt surfacing. But, two years on, the material is still looking good