Tarmac Mastertint
Coloured Tarmac
2. Mastertint Features and Benefits
3. Mastertint an alternative to resin bound surfaces
7. Where can I use Mastertint Coloured Asphalt? Now including use in road tunnels
8. Mastertint available as Coloured Chippings
10. How do I specify Mastertint?
12. Mastertint Video - Watch Mastertint being laid
13. Mastertint alternatives: TarmacDry and Masterdrive
What is Tarmac Mastertint?
Mastertint is a coloured tarmac range that's both aesthetically pleasing and can practically mark out important boundaries such as bus and cycle lanes and pedestrian areas. It is an excellent solution for both commercial and residential environment. For any questions please email us at: mastertint@tarmac.co.uk outlining your project requirements.
Clear synthetic binder
As Mastertint uses an innovative clear synthetic binder, it offers the functional qualities of conventional asphalt in a range of attractive colours and surface textures. The innovative clear binder is also know as Mexphalte C.
See more information on Mexphalte on the Shell website (opens in new window) .
Colour doesn't fade
What sets Mastertint aside is that we use a complementary aggregate and pigment which means that the colour is retained through the product and will never be lost. Colour does not fade with wear and tear.
Mastertint Features and Benefits
Distinctive: Offers a distinctive coloured asphalt range utilising clear binder and complimentary aggregates.
Permeable option: Tarmac offers the option of Mastertint Porous - a coloured asphalt designed to soak away the water. See TarmacDry
Functional: Offers all the functional qualities of a conventional asphalt.
Bespoke: Available in a range of colours to match your needs.
Quick and easy installation: No additional installation methods required compared to conventional. Mastertint can often be laid over an existing surface.
Low maintenance: A great alternative to painted asphalt and blocks and weed free. Color doesn't fade over time.
Long lasting: Structurally designed for a long life, Mastertint is both durable and hardwearing.
Attractive: Aesthetically pleasing.
Smooth surface: Mastertint, as well as being used on trafficked areas, is perfect for pedestrian areas and those using pushchairs, wheelchairs and bicycles.
Cost effective: Long-lasting, durable, and economic alternative to concrete paviors and blocks.
Contolled manufacture: Tarmac have a bespoke plant dedicated to producing and supplying Mastertint.
Coloured Asphalt as an alternative to resin bound surfaces
The natural choice for architects and planners, it's a viable alternative to concrete modular systems and can be installed in hours. Coloured asphalt is a particularly good alternative to resin bound surfaces as Mastertint is a more durable, flexible and cost effective solution.
Mastertint requires little maintenance and provides a smooth, safe surface for pedestrians.
Mastertint uses Slideshow
Mastertint Asphalt Colours 
Mastertint Classic
Mastertint's classic range is the ideal choice for schemes of character and distinction and is available in a including shades of red, green, buff, grey, white and blue. Non-standard colours available on request.
Mastertint Natural
Selected decorative aggregate bound with a clear binder to give a natural coloured surface.
Mastertint is aesthetically appealing
and offers all the functional
qualities of conventional asphalt,
making it the ultimate choice
for highway, residential and
pedestrian surfacing.
There are possibilities from red asphalt, blue asphalt, green asphalt, grey asphalt, white asphalt, red tarmac, blue tarmac, green tarmac, grey tarmac, white tarmac, natural tarmac or any other coloured tarmac you require.
Mastertint Image Gallery
See the variety of Mastertint colours in more images of Mastertint coloured tarmac.
Where can I use Mastertint Coloured Asphalt?
Highways and Local Authorities
With its combination of colours and surface textures, Mastertint can also be used to effectively delineate high profile locations such as bus lanes, cycle lanes and traffic calming areas. See Birmingham Bus Lanes case study below.
Public parks and gardens
For rural or environmentally sensitive off-highway schemes, Mastertint's clear-bound aggregate range is the natural choice for architects and planners alike.
Sports and Leisure
For sports stadiums, football pitches, golf courses, leisure centres, playgrounds and other sports surfaces.
Residential / lightly trafficked areas
Suitable for coloured driveways, coloured roads, coloured footpaths and coloured car parking areas. Mastertint is a durable coloured alternative to traditional asphalt. It is a direct alternative for block paving systems.
Pedestrian areas
Mastertint's smooth and even texture provides a safe pedestrian surface, minimising the risk of slips, trips and falls.
Mastertint for use in road tunnels
Across Europe, the use of coloured asphalt in road tunnels has helped to cut lighting costs without compromising driver safety. Reflective road surfacing technology has the potential to combine with lighting technologies to deliver better driver visibility as well as offering the potential to reduce lighting costs.
The light reflectivity and durability of Mastertint is achieved by incorporating special aggregates, light coloured pigments and high-quality polymers and binders to enhance the mechanical stability of the asphalt mix. This light reflecting asphalt ensures it is suitable for all heavy trafficked areas.
Mastertint Coloured Chippings
Tarmac Mastertint is also available in chippings. These can be rolled into asphalt of any colour during laying to achieve an aesthetic result. These chippings are available in bulk loads for delivery to any UK location, additionally we can offer a bagging service, and a recent project that was supplied was Horseguards Parade Road for The Royal Parks.
Read the Mastertint Chippings Case Study on Horse Guards Parade.
Mastertint Case Studies
Mastertint has been a recognised product for over ten years, see some of its clients below.
Village Community School, Derby - Mastertint Classic Buff
Westbourne Grove's Green Cycle Paths - Mastertint Classic Buff and Mastertint Classic Green
White Pedestrian Access for GMI Construction - White Mastertint
Birmingham Green Bus Lanes- Green Mastertint
See all Tarmac Mastertint case studies in our overview:
Mastertint Case Study Overview Brochure (pdf, 299kb)
Mastertint - Coloured Asphalt Downloads
Mastertint Safety Datasheet (pdf, 31kb)
Mastertint Video - Watch Mastertint being laid
Mastertint Video - green asphalt being laid for Birmingham Green Bus Lanes
Read the Mastertint Case Study on Birmingham Green Bus Lanes (pdf, 1908kb)
carried out by Tarmac National Contracting
Mastertint alternatives
Are you looking for a coloured pororus tarmac or SuDS system?
See our porous coloured asphalt SuDS system see TarmacDry combined with Mastertint
Are you looking for black tarmac for driveways?
Refer to Tarmac Masterdrive
Contact Us
To receive free design advice and a bespoke design specification, please contact Richard Sharman with your project requirements and location:
Email: mastertint@tarmac.co.uk
Phone: 01943 883564
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