Road Recycling
Product: FoamMaster
National Contracting Service: Road Recycling
Tarmac is at the forefront of the drive to promote the use of recycled materials and has established recycling operations strategically located throughout the country. These enable us to re-use much of the materials recovered from sites and are helping us to achieve our sustainability targets. Our in-house company, Tarmac Recycling, is able to offer specialist advice and assistance to our operational staff in respect of environmental issues such as resource use, waste and emissions, sustainability and more, and also the development and implementation of recycling initiatives within our contracting operations.
Pavement construction schemes use materials and products that are predominantly inert and granular in nature and as the acceptability and use of recycled materials increases then the concept of the pavement being a linear quarry for future schemes becomes reality. Tarmac continues to develop ideas to use these materials and, equally important, to aid the design of schemes that use materials that can also be recycled at the end of their life.
In particular, National Contracting is fully committed to promoting foamed bitumen technology, through our FoamMaster product, as a viable alternative to traditional bituminous materials depending on traffic loadings and availability of recycled aggregates.
Tarmac has extensive experience of the foamed bitumen process, which uses fully mobile mixing plants to produce base or binder materials by enhancing recycled aggregates, including road planings. We have experience of producing this material within our recycling centres for sale into the local construction markets, or as part of an ex-situ recycling solution for pavement reconstruction schemes.
The systems primary advantages over conventional surfacing techniques are that it is an energy-efficient manufacturing process, reduces site transport movements, conserves local aggregate resources, produces a stockpileable material with an extended life and produces a re-workable material in its early life. Foamix products provide a real, cost effective, value for money option to traditional bituminous products.
Since our purchase of two fully mobile mixing plants and the acquisition of National Road Planing Ltd (NRP), the UKs largest planing company, we now have the capability to provide a complete ex-situ recycling service from the provision of design and technical advice, to planing, production and laying of Foamix base material and the production and laying of binder and surface course materials.
Download:
Recycling brochure (pdf, 4.24mb)
Related case studies:
A1094 Aldeburgh Road Suffolk Highways Partnership
Find out more: Tarmac Recycling website
