Paving the way forward
10 - Spring 2002
Associated Asphalt
Thin surfacings have revolutionised road maintenance since they were introduced into the UK a decade ago. Now one of the first – Safepave – is officially recognised as having come of age.

CARBON FOOTPRINT

Asphalt additive arrives to shrink carbon footprints
Ringway
20 - Spring 2007
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.

CAR PARKS

Greening Liverpool's regeneration.
13 - Autumn 2003
Lafarge
Recycled asphalt advocate Liverpool City Council recently called on Lafarge Aggregates to surface its newest car park with high performance secondary materials to a tight deadline.

CEMENTITIOUS GROUT

Hanson combines strengths for tough duties
16 - Summer 2005
Hanson
A new surfacing material combining the flexibity of asphalt with the strength of concrete has been launched for heavy duty applications by Hanson aggregates.

CLEAR RESIN BINDERS

Clear vision for surfacings
9 - Autumn 2001
Ayton Asphalte
The Royal Parks and Kew Gardens' Palm House are among an increasing number of high profile areas surfaced with Clearmac - a high quality naturally coloured asphalt.

COLD MIX & COLD LAY

Cold mix: the environmental choice
19 - Autumn 2006
Nynas
Low energy use and huge recycling possibilities are benefits of cold mixed asphalts using bitumen emulsions - demonstrated during Nynas' mobile cold mix tour of the UK.

Road repairs pre packed
19 - Autumn 2006
Velocity
Repairs to potholes and problem ironwork can now be carried out more quickly using pre packed kits developed by Velocity.

Introducing the new name in road repair
18 - Spring 2006
Velocity
After a successful start in the UK, Jetpatcher is changing its name. Welcome to Velocity.

Foamed asphalt supply set up for further markets
16 - Summer 2005
Lafarge
Production from Lafarge's Stevenage coating plant now includes Axofoam foamed asphalt, which has been added to provide customers with a flexible source of recycled asphalt and strong quality control.

Hot future for cold lay
12 - Spring 2003
Nynas
Comprehensive technology for cold-mix road recycling is being developed by a pan-European asphalt alliance working on a project known as SCORE.

Recycling raises the standard in Sweden
10 - Spring 2002
Nynas
Cold mixed recycling is the future for more than half of Sweden's road planings – a fact that has impacted heavily on emulsion binder performance.

Keeping it cool
6 - Summer 2000
Hanson
Hanson's cold mix, cold lay asphalt offers a high performance alternative to traditional hot mix asphalts.

Cold-lay goes to HAPAS
4 - Summer 1999
News

Coldlay Pioneer
2 - Summer 1998
Aggregate Industries
Out of adversity for Bardon Aggregates have come Landrec and Playbase - two cold mix technology based developments of enormous potential.

COLOURED ASPHALTS

Seeing is believing
22 - Spring 2008
Lafarge Aggregates
A whole variety of innovative asphalt solutions can now be viewed by potenial clients in one place - Lafarge's new visitor centre.

Options added to Lafarge coloured asphalts
17 - Autumn 2005
Lafarge Aggregates
Growing demand for surfacings coloured to suit their surroundings and for demarkation has led Lafarge Aggregates to expand its range of high performance coloured asphalts.

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

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.

Sports surfacing gets the colour treatment
14 - Spring 2004
Aggregate Industries
Disabled athletes are set to benefit from a specially developed multi use sports surfacing launched by Aggregate Industries.

Innovating to meet demand
13 - Autumn 2003
RMC
High performance coloured asphalt is the latest product to join a succession of innovative new materials that have emerged from RMC's Product Development Group in recent years.

Word on the street is colour
12 - Spring 2003
Pure Asphalt & Shell Bitumen
East London is becoming an increasingly colourful place as asphalt producers respond to growing client demands for a wider range of road surfacing options other than the traditional black.

Rolling down the red carpet
5 - Winter 1999/2000
Bardon Aggregates
The limits of what asphalt can do have been tested on the Millennium Dome project, where coloured material has scored a major success against competition from block paving.

Tarmac leads with colour
3 - Winter 1998
Tarmac
Tarmac Quarry Products' new coloured asphalts mean that the material could soon be the first choice when aesthetics are important..

COMPREHENSIVE SPENDING REVIEW

Review leaves roads out in the cold
15 - Autumn 2004
Analysis

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Results prove pilot performance
8 - Spring 2001
Hanson
Construction Management procurement trials are developing a better service for the Highways Agency and significant benefits for specialist suppliers such as Hanson Construction Projects.

CONTRACTING

Materials specialist turns to contracting
5 - Winter 1999/2000
Foster Yeoman
Highly ambitious - that is the best description of Foster Yeoman Contracting, a road surfacing and civil engineering contractor with an attitude out of proportion to its size.

CORNWALL

Recycling raises the standard in Sweden
10 - Spring 2002
Nynas
Cold mixed recycling is the future for more than half of Sweden's road planings – a fact that has impacted heavily on emulsion binder performance.

CRACK AND SEAT METHOD

New Viafoam use slashes carbon emissions
21 - Autumn 2007
CEMEX
Study of the first use of cold mix recycling with 'crack and seat' technology by CEMEX is reporting positive results of performance, cost and environmental imapct.

Hanson wins approval on the M20.
5 - Winter 1999/2000
Client satisfaction, public response, bonus earned - by what ever measure, Hanson Construction Project's resurfacing of the M20 can only be gauged a success.

Long life: Tarmac's master plan
1 - 1997
Innovation has been given a major boost by the advent of privately financed roads and private sector maintenance management of key elements of the trunk road and motorway network. The response of Tarmac proves the point.

CROYDON

The engineer's flexible friend
13 - Autumn 2003
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.

CYCLEPATHS

Word on the street is colour
12 - Spring 2003
Pure Asphalt & Shell Bitumen
East London is becoming an increasingly colourful place as asphalt producers respond to growing client demands for a wider range of road surfacing options other than the traditional black.