Wirtgen AutoPilot Field Rover eliminates stringlines

Amanda Bayhi - Apr 25, 2013

Wirtgen’s AutoPilot Field Rover, which won an innovation award at Bauma 2013, eliminates stringlines, using a GPS to guide paving machines instead, our sister site, Equipment World, reported. The device uses a computer integrated into the machine, GPS receivers mounted on ...

Volvo unveils P7110 paver at World of Asphalt

Amanda Bayhi - Mar 20, 2013

Volvo unveiled its P7110 paver at World of Asphalt today, though the machine is still in its pre-production stage. Volvo will begin production of this paver April 1. The P7110 belongs to the P7000 series of pavers, which replaces the PF6000 ...

New Road Products

Brooke Wisdom - Mar 01, 2010

Top New Products from the Big Trade Shows When asphalt paving industry players, including 6,000-plus registered attendees, gathered Feb. 15-18 in Cincinnati for the record-setting World of Asphalt 2010 Show & Conference, they were met by equipment manufacturers ready to show ...

BidList Preserving Pavement

Brooke Wisdom - Oct 01, 2009

Infrared heaters from Ray-Tech Corp. can be used to repair potholes, create decorative asphalt imprinting, repair utility cuts in roads, fix birdbath depressions, repair trenches, keyholes, runways, bridge decks, road drainage and many other types of work. Infrared rays have ...

Applications and Innovations: A Road from the Past; A Road for the Future

Brooke Wisdom - Oct 01, 2009

This Central Avenue has a prominent past. Granite blocks made up the original roadway built in the 1600s. It came from from small cut blocks used as ballasts in ships sailing up the Hudson River from the Netherlands and other ...

Bergkamp’s M2 series

Better Roads Staff - Sep 29, 2009

Bergkamp Inc. offers the M2 series of slurry seal and micro surfacing pavers. The truck-mounted M2 series consists of the M206 – which can carry 6 cubic yards of aggregate and 300 gallons of asphalt emulsion and water; and the ...

Caterpillar’s AP600D Asphalt Paver is EPA Tier 3 Compliant

Better Roads Staff - Sep 29, 2009

The AP600D Asphalt Paver from Caterpillar has an 8-foot standard paving width and features an EPA Tier 3 compliant, high-powered engine with a heavy duty, front mounted cooling system, dual operation stations with the Advisor Monitoring System (AMS) and a ...

Roadtec’s Shuttle Buggy

Better Roads Staff - Sep 29, 2009

Temperature and material segregation are major contributors to uneven density and end-of-load segregation and their associated flaws, such as potholes, but remixing in the Shuttle Buggy MTV from Roadtec is said to be an effective method of eliminating temperature and ...

Vögele America, Inc. Super 1800-2 SprayJet paver

Better Roads Staff - Sep 29, 2009

The Super 1800-2 SprayJet paver from Vögele America, Inc. can be used to place both open-graded rubberized and Novachip thin-wearing courses. With SprayJet module mounted, conventional hot-mix asphalt pavements can be placed. The system that sprays polymer-modified binder in front ...