ASPHALT RUBBER

PAVEMENTS
The Safe, Sound, &
Durable Solution
The STRATCO Global family of companies is
devoted to providing the technology and products
that make the world safer, cleaner and better.
ASPHALT RUBBER – WHY USE IT?

 Improves our Environment

 Improves Safety

 Increases Lifetime of Pavement

 Reduces Costs
ASPHALT RUBBER – WHAT IS IT?

ASPHALT RUBBER is defined by the

American Society for Testing Materials
(ASTM) D8-88 as: "A blend of asphalt
cement, reclaimed tire rubber, and
certain additives in which the rubber
component is at least 15%** by weight
of the total blend and has reacted in the
hot asphalt cement sufficiently to
cause swelling of the rubber particles".

**More Typical Would Be 17%-20%

 Asphalt Rubber
Environmental Benefits:
Waste Tyre Recycling

1 waste tire
generated per
person per
year

2000 waste tires used

per lane mile in 2-Inch
overlay
Crumb Rubber Manufacturing

GRANUTECH
 Asphalt Rubber
Environmental Benefits:
Noise Reduction
16

14
Noise Intensity
12

Highway Traffic

Chain Saw
Conversation
10

Train
4

0
60 70 80 90 100

Decibels
• 10 dB increase = double noise loudness
• On high speed motorways, the tyre/road interface contributes
approximately 70% to total noise
 Asphalt Rubber
Environmental Benefits: Noise Reduction
Noise Abatement Alternatives
 Erect Obstructions: Berms and/or Sound Walls
 Height & Line of sight dependent
 Up to $1.5 Million/Km
 Plant trees, shrubs, bushes
 Density dependent
 Control/Modify surface texture
 > $7/m2 (plus cleanup & traffic control)

Or, choose the best alternative…reduce the

noise at its source.

Change the paving material!

Noise Reduction
 Asphalt Rubber Safety
Interstate I-35, San Antonio, Texas
After AR Porous Friction Course:
 Rain Days: 43% increase
 Accidents (rain days): 51% reduction (equiv. 67% decrease)
 Accidents (fair weather): 37% reduction

• IMPROVED SKID Asphalt Rubber

RESISTANCE

• REDUCED WATER
SPRAY
Concrete
• REDUCED
HYDROPLANING
OGFC AT WORK IN NEW JERSEY

New Jersey State Route 95

Asphalt Rubber Comparative Costs*

Cost/Square
Material Meter- Typical Layer Cost/Square
Centimeter Thickness Meter

AC $0.84 4-Inch $8.53

Dense Graded
AR $1.46 2-inch $7.41
Gap Graded
AR $1.65 1-inch $4.19
Open Graded

*George Way, PE; Retired Chief Engineer, Arizona DOT

 Asphalt Rubber Cost Savings:
Life Cycle Cost

• Interstate 40 AZ (westbound), MP 191-194/196-1991

Maintenance costs for 11 years following rehabilitation

• AC ~ $143K
• 1985-1995, 6.43 km (4 miles)

• AR ~ $43K
• 1991-2001, 6.43 km (4 miles)

• ~ 70% savings

These costs do not reflect actual maintenance costs in the African market.
1 Adapted from “Life Cycle Cost Analysis: Conventional vs. Asphalt Rubber Pavements” August 2002; Jung Way, et al
Asphalt Rubber Performance:
I-19, Tucson AZ, MP 58-60
 Asphalt Rubber Performance:
I-19, Tucson AZ, MP 58-60

Concrete Road Prepared For Asphalt Rubber Overlay

Asphalt Rubber Performance:
12 years later
 ALF
Accelerated
Load Facility
 Asphalt Rubber Performance:
Federal Government
Testing (FHWA/ALF)

TPF-5 (019) Accelerated Loading Facility Status Report Jan. 2005

Terminal Blend
Control
Percentage of Cracking

SBS Polymer

Asphalt Rubber

Number of Load Passes

Federal Highway Administration Tests
Prove AR Outlast Alternatives

CONVENTIONAL TERMINAL SBS ASPHALT

ASPHALT BLEND POLYMER RUBBER
100,000 Loaded Passes 100,000 Loaded Passes 300,000 Loaded Passes 300,000 Loaded Passes
AR Technology Summary
 SAVES MONEY!
 Initial investment
 Life cycle costs
 Noise abatement alternatives

 DURABILITY!
 Extends pavement life 15+ years

 SAVES LIVES!
 Greatly improves driving conditions

 IMPROVES QUALITY OF LIFE!

 Reduces traffic noise
 Eliminates waste tires

 NO RISK!
 20+ years of proven technology in all types of climates
WHAT DO WE OFFER IN THIS INDUSTRY?
Engineering Innovation
Through Research &
Development

 High Quality Equipment

 Expertise in the Application of
Asphalt Rubber Paving Material

 Technology Transfer
 Class “A” Customer Service
 Worldwide Reputation
 EXPERIENCE

Field experience with own equipment working with

General Contractors and Materials Suppliers
Partnered in over 200 paving projects nationwide,
producing over 2.5 million mix tons of rubberized
asphalt

Blended 200,000 tons of quality of rubberized binder

Beneficially used approximately 3.6 million passenger
tire equivalent (PTE)
WHY ECOPATH’s EQUIPMENT?

Multiple Designs
Complies with Country’s Fabrication
Specifications

Highly Versatile Control System

Unique Compatibility with Hot Mix Plant
Interlock

Provides Easy Mobility

Minimal Manual Labor
 ECOPATH ASPHALT RUBBER
PLANTS INTERNATIONAL MARKET

15 TPH MODULAR PLANT

15 TPH MOBILE PLANT CONTROL ROOM

 ECOPATH ASPHALT RUBBER
PLANTS FOR USA MARKET
45 TPH MOBILE PLANT

Blending Plant

Reaction Tank
HOT MIX PLANTS & TONNAGE OF
ASPHALT MIX PRODUCED

Number of Hot Total Production of

Mix Plants Hot Mix Asphalt*
REGION
Europe 4,285 289.2
United Kingdom 310 27.9
Ireland 74 3.4
Total 4,669 320.5

United States 3,600 500

NOTES:
* In Millions of tonnes
Source: European Asphalt Pavement Association Source of Hot Mix Plant Data & Production Data for 2005
 BLENDING PLANTS NEEDED
To Overlay 2% of Current Paved Roads

Paved Roads Paved Roads ARBPs

Kilometers Miles Needed
REGION
Europe 3,963,701 2,162,911 2,153
United Kingdom 387,674 240,888 211
Ireland 95,736 59,487 52
Total 4,447,111 2,463,286 2,416*

United States 6,502,839 4,040,677 1237*

NOTES:
Unpaved Roads in Europe: 809,551 Km (+440 ARBPs)
*3,500 binder tons per ARBP per year
**10,000 binder tons per ARBP per year
SOME OF OUR RECENT PROJECTS
RECENT PROJECTS

Biosphere Project
Washington State DOT Quiet Paving Project
New Jersey State Rt. 95
 New Jersey, I-95. NJDOT and
Rutgers University received

BER
RDS
the prestigious Department of
Environmental Protection
AWA Annual Recycling Award.
RUB

Interstate 280 (near New York

City) project: We co-received
ALT

the Rutgers Award for

Excellence and Performance.
H

CALTRANS recognized our

ASP

Blending Plants as the only

ones with state of the art
criteria.
SERVICES
ECOPATH and it strategic partners provide
complete services for all aspects of PMA and AR,
including:

Tire grinding
Laboratory services
Project management services
Equipment design
Equipment maintenance
Research and development
THANK YOU!!!