Volvo Construction Equipment - Mon August 03, 2020
Volvo CE to Divest Blaw-Knox Paver Business to Gencor Industries
Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has signed an agreement to divest the North American Blaw-Knox paver business and associated assets to asphalt equipment manufacturer Gencor Industries (Gencor)....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu July 23, 2020
Paving in the Extremes
Across the country, road builders confront tight deadlines for completing their projects. Often construction teams face the end of the paving season knowing that challenging weather lies ahead. This scenario was especially true for projects in two contrasting environments, one completed at the "North Pole" and the second in the California desert....
John Deere - Wed July 15, 2020
John Deere Introduces New E-Series Cold Planer Attachments to Lineup
Expanding on its established lineup of attachments, John Deere unveiled its new CP18E, CP24E and CP30E cold planers. These new attachments offerings help operators who work on street repairs, leveling uneven pavement, texturing pavement and cleaning around larger milling machines....
TxDOT - Tue July 14, 2020
Victoria's Brannan Paving Co. Works on 90 Mi. of Highway
Nearly 90 mi. of roads in five counties will be worked on throughout the rest of this month. A second district seal coat project is under way across the Odessa District of the Texas Department of Transportation....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu July 09, 2020
Diamonds Are a Road's Best Friend in N.C.
Diamond Surface Inc. , via a $13,389,000 contract with the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT), is rehabilitating and repairing 6.796 mi. of I-73/U.S. 421 in Guilford County between I-85 and 1-40 in Greensboro, N.C....
CEG/Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association - Tue July 07, 2020
MAPA Announces 7th Annual Golf Outing Set for August
The Minnesota Asphalt Pavement Association (MAPA) is ready FORE summer by opening registration for its 7th Annual Golf Outing to be held Aug. 10, 2020, from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Bunker Hills Golf Club located at 12800 Bunker Prairie Rd....
WYDOT - Wed July 01, 2020
Area Contractors Win Award For 'Exceptionally Smooth Ride'
The Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) recently recognized two contractors for completing state road surfacing projects that provided an exceptionally smooth ride. WYDOT recognized Simon Contractors, of Cheyenne, with the Smoothest Pavement with Wearing Course award for a project on Interstate 80 near Cheyenne....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Wed July 01, 2020
GOMACO Slipform Paver: Project 'Workhorse'
The replacement of aging infrastructure that has maximized its lifespan, particularly bridges, in the Greater Amarillo Area is a major priority for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). In February 2018, J....
Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Wed June 24, 2020
Decades of Experience Drives Columbia Asphalt Company
When it comes to the business and science behind asphalt paving, there may be no one in the Southeast with more knowledge about the subject than John Scott. He has worked around the industry for more than 50 years as both a South Carolina Department of Transportation inspector and engineer, before opening his own company in 1979....
North Dakota Department of Transportation - Tue June 23, 2020
NDDOT Wins Perpetual Pavement Award
The Asphalt Pavement Alliance (APA) announced that the North Dakota Department of Transportation (NDDOT) has won a 2019 Perpetual Pavement Award (PPA) for an 11.3-mi. section of North Dakota Highway 5 in Pembina County....
