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New Generation Paving Products: Offering Experience and Technical Solutions
With a little over 200 years of combined experience in engineering, manufacturing, sales, and marketing of asphalt paving equipment, New Generation Paving Products in Troutman, North Carolina,

This Changes Everything Gordon and Rich Rayner Impact the Industry
Gordon started in the pavement maintenance industry in 1974 and formed California Pavement Maintenance Company (CPM) in 1979 when his brother Rich joined him full time. Together they have established CPM as a leader in the pavement maintenance industry, not just in California, but recognized around the world.

KM International Sees a Green Future
Since 1983, KM International in North Branch, Michigan, has rooted its business on green technologies for the asphalt pavement and maintenance industry. Two contractors named Keizer and Morris saw a need almost three decades ago for an infrared asphalt recycling unit that was affordable and versatile for their pavement maintenance business.

Forty two million vehicles and eight lanes of superhighway! - It doesn’t get much tougher than that!
California Pavement Maintenance and Rayner Equipment have been doing business in Thailand for a very long time. Customers in Thailand and other Southeast Asia countries have placed 76 RoadSaver Slurry/Microsurfacing machines in service and the companies frequently cooperated in training and research programs.

Dunn Company Has a Plan That Works
From its early beginnings, Dunn Company in Decatur, Illinois, learned a valuable business lesson. “Part of our success and the fact that we stay in business is our diversification,” says Jim Schwarz, Vice President of Sales at Dunn Company.

Waterblasting Technologies: Leading Globally Through Innovation
Last month, Waterblasting Technologies celebrated the grand opening of their new international headquarters and manufacturing facility in Stuart, Florida. Even in the face of a stumbling economy, the company has achieved remarkable success both domestically and abroad.

StarJet-Plus™: A Perfect Solution for Pavement Preparation
  

The City of Henderson - 10,000,000 Square Feet of Sealcoat! Is this the biggest sealcoat job ever??

The City of Henderson can get pretty hot in the summer with temperatures well into the triple digits. Standing on a residential street in the middle of a summer afternoon you can almost hear the pavement crying in agony. A few months later freezing conditions can extract their measure of stress on the same roads.
Pavement temperatures ranging from 18° to 160° take a huge toll on roads so, as a City Engineer, how do you protect your paving investment against these conditions?

Ready, Set, Pave ASPHALT PAVEMENT: MEETING THE CHALLENGE FOR AMERICA
The asphalt industry is ready to go to meet the challenges of an infrastructure stimulus package and to help pave the way out of America’s economic downturn.
This new report from the Asphalt Pavement Alliance shows how.

Asphalt is an essential building block for the American economy. Throughout the last 100 years, asphalt pavements have created the arteries through which the nation’s life blood flows. Today the asphalt pavement industry is geared up to put the country on the road to economic recovery, with many ready-to-go projects lined up that fit the requirements of a massive stimulus package focusing on renewing the nation’s infrastructure.
 

Chuck Terpin Finds Creativity in Decorative Paving
When Chuck Terpin was in the paving business almost twenty-five years, he decided he wanted to do something a bit more creative—and possibly pump up his bottom line. So, in 1994, he took a stroll into the world of decorative paving and began stamping asphalt. “I did residential and commercial paving for years,” Terpin says. “Then, I got this StreetPrint franchise in 1994.” That was when the idea for Stamped Asphalt in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, was born, though the company did  not take that name until four years later.
Early Beginnings
   

Bidding Parking Lot Sweeping: How to Evaluate Work to be Done and Satisfy Your Customers
One of the first and most important questions asked in regards to the sweeping business is “How much does one charge for parking lot sweeping services?” Do you charge per square foot, per parking space, or acreage?

The best method for establishing an accurate price for sweeping is arrived at by setting an hourly rate to cover the amount of time spent in the total sweeping of any given lot.
A common question asked, in regard to bidding, is how to bid a sweeping job by square footage. It is impossible to estimate this way because of the great variances in parking lot conditions. A square foot of hardware store parking lot is much easier to maintain than a parking lot in front of an all night donut shop.

Mike Musto, Founder of the 1-800-PAVEMENT Network, Gives Advice for Business Success During Tough Economic Times
Though the economy has looked bleak for some time, Michael Musto, president of multi-million dollar U.S. Pavement Services Inc. in Woburn, Massachusetts, knows how to keep his crews running and succeed even in tough times.

Quality Keeps Evans Construction Running Even During a Downturn
If you ask Mickey Evans, owner of Evans Construction, in Connelly Springs, North Carolina, how his business is faring during this economic downturn, he will tell you that he has seen this all before. “I have gone through several of these,” he says. “Of course, this is the worst, I guess, that I can remember.