Mastertint coloured asphalt

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Mastertint is a coloured tarmac range.  It is both aesthetically pleasing and can be used to mark out important boundaries.  It is an excellent solution for both commercial and residential environments. Mastertint offers all the functional qualities of conventional asphalt, making it the ultimate choice for highway, residential and pedestrian surfacing.

Clear synthetic binder

Mastertint uses an innovative clear synthetic binder, offering the functional qualities of conventional asphalt in a range of attractive colours and surface textures. The innovative clear binder is also known as Mexphalte C.

• See more information on Mexphalte on the Shell website (new window).

The natural choice for architects and planners, it is a viable alternative to concrete modular systems and can be installed in hours. Coloured tarmac is a particularly good alternative to resin bound surfaces as Mastertint is a more durable, flexible and cost effective solution.

 

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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.

• 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 coloured asphalt for use in road tunnels

Across Europe, the use of coloured tarmac 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 coloured tarmac 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.  There is the potential of cost-savings of energy bills to local authorities in the UK, if light coloured tarmac is used in tunnels, as well as bus and cycle lanes and inner city paved areas.

 

Mastertint coloured asphalt 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.

 

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