Asphalt milling, paving & compaction

A local authority-approved contractor specialising in the provision of quality finished asphalt and surfaces has taken delivery of its fourth ABG paver from Volvo.

The innovative StreetPrint stamped asphalt and asphalt coating technology from Integrated Paving Concepts (IPC) is now being made available in key markets.

POLAND has ambitious plans to construct around 900km of new highways in time for the European Football Championships in 2012. With plans in place to cohost the UEFA 2012 football championships with the Ukraine, Poland's road infrastructure is undergoing major developments to bring it up to date with the rest of the European Union. And to ensure the completed roads and pavements meet the required quality standards, Cooper Technology of Derby, UK, was awarded a contract to provide asphalt testing equipment to

Paving operations in Perth, Western Australia, are being aided by Dynapac's productive and versatile F6-4W, which is paving links for new suburbs to meet the latest surge in population. The machine is working for specialist contractor BGC Asphalt and is laying roads in the remaining sub-divisions of Ridge Wood in Brighton, to the north of Perth.

UK firm Cartem is offering a new chippings spreader developed for use in highway construction and maintenance applications. This dedicated machine, the Spreadmaster, offers spreading widths of 300mm - 4.4m in standard configuration and has been designed and built at the company's facility in Leicester.

Controls says that the continuous search for new technological solutions has led Wykeham Farrance to an important threshold which shows how well-directed research investment can result in technological successes both in terms of quality and price.

China's Ministry for Transport reveals that it beat its target for upgrading rural roads during 2009. Some 381,000km of rural roads were improved, beating the target of 300,000km by a considerable margin.