DAY 1: TEXOLA TO CLINTON, OK On the 4th of July: four riders – all in their early 70s – will ride across OK on Historic Route 66. In July… Why are we doing this? Both to continue to identify and overcome life challenges and to raise money for OAPA Oklahoma Asphalt Engineering Scholarships. The ride starting point is Texola on the Texas-Oklahoma line, and over the next six days, we will ride about 75-85 miles a day, arriving in Joplin, MO on Saturday, July 9th. We all ride bikes a lot, including multiple trips across North America, and we know that t ..read more

KLP Construction Supply Partners with Envirotx to Support ECR Sales in Texas Asphalt Plus is very proud to announce the addition of KLP Construction Supply to our growing list of nationwide distributors.  KLP Construction Supply and Envirotx have agreed to partner in support of advancing the use of Engineered Crumb Rubber (ECR) in the great state of Texas.   KLP Construction Supply has 5 offices throughout Texas that will be providing technical and sales support for ECR.  Asphalt Plus manufactures ECR that is used as an additive in asphalt mixes, improving rutting and crac ..read more

Crumb Rubber Asphalt Cost & Analysis Crumb Rubber Asphalt Cost & Analysis comprises a series of activities, such as materials production, construction, maintenance etc., all of which have environmental impacts. Rubber asphalt is not new but just starting to resurface throughout the US. It is produced from grinding up whole scrap tires from automobiles. Then the use of the ground tiers mixed with Elastiko is mixed with the asphalt and then laid.  Rubberized Asphalt Analysis & Cost People who manage roads, especially publicly funded ones, are having to do more with le ..read more

Crumb Rubber Pavement Introduction Production of a crumb rubber pavement comprises a series of activities, such as materials production, construction, maintenance etc., all of which have environmental impacts. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can track and quantify the environmental impacts of both individual and total activities of products. It helps identify the activities with the highest environmental burdens within the life cycle of the product, or point to 2 hotspots and clarify the most environmentally effective strategies among various options. Such advantages make LCA a methodology frequen ..read more

Rubberized Asphalt Mix Design In work with Illinois Tollway contractors, Asphalt Plus participated in early balanced asphalt mix design efforts in Tollway main line SMA mix designs. Dry process rubber using ElastikoR ECR was used in SMA and dense-graded applications on I-355, I-88 and I-294, which include pavements with more than 30 Million ESAL traffic volumes. These pavements were placed in 2015 and 2016. These were not just standard mix designs including ground tire rubber. Asphalt mix design development at STATE Testing and MAPIL included design objectives that were and are unique. Traf ..read more

What is Rubber Asphalt? Rubber asphalt is not new but just starting to resurface throughout the US. It is produced from grinding up whole scrap tires from automobiles. Then the use of the ground tiers is mixed with the asphalt and then laid. Being the largest market for ground tiers, rubberized asphalt consumes an estimated 220,000,000 pounds or around 12 million tires annually. More and more states are starting to see the benefits of rubber and recently have been taking on the old technology and mastering the process. In 2015, the Illinois Tollway Authority commissioned a demonstration projec ..read more

What Is Rubberized Asphalt? Rubberized asphalt is not new but just starting to resurface throughout the US. It is produced from grinding up whole scrap tires from automobiles. Elastiko is applied to the crumb rubber in order to improve the handling and workability characteristics of the mix. Also rubberized asphalt consumes an estimated 220,000,000 pounds or around 12 million tires annually. (That number is expected to grow) More and more states are starting to see the benefits of rubber in asphalt and recently have been taking on the old technology and mastering the process. With all the test ..read more

In 2022, officials from the Missouri Department of Transportation allowed the replacement of their standard SMA mix design for interstate highway roads with a mix modified with Engineered Crumb Rubber (ECR).  This rubberized mix used ElastikoR ECR as a mix modifier.  When the substitution was allowed, the road agency replaced an SMA mix utilizing Poly-Phosphoric Acid (PPA) as a binder stiffener along with fibers.  The replacement mix used ECR and no fibers.  With the new rubberized mix design, two questions were raised:  will the rubber hold the liquid asphalt binder ..read more

DAY 1: TEXOLA TO CLINTON, OK On the 4th of July: four riders – all in their early 70s – will ride across OK on Historic Route 66. In July… Why are we doing this? Both to continue to identify and overcome life challenges and to raise money for OAPA Oklahoma Asphalt Engineering Scholarships. The ride starting point is Texola on the Texas-Oklahoma line, and over the next six days, we will ride about 75-85 miles a day, arriving in Joplin, MO on Saturday, July 9th. We all ride bikes a lot, including multiple trips across North America, and we know that t ..read more

KLP Construction Supply Partners with Envirotx to Support ECR Sales in Texas Asphalt Plus is very proud to announce the addition of KLP Construction Supply to our growing list of nationwide distributors.  KLP Construction Supply and Envirotx have agreed to partner in support of advancing the use of Engineered Crumb Rubber (ECR) in the great state of Texas.   KLP Construction Supply has 5 offices throughout Texas that will be providing technical and sales support for ECR.  Asphalt Plus manufactures ECR that is used as an additive in asphalt mixes, improving rutting and crac ..read more