Eric Olson - CEG CONTRIBUTING EDITOR - Thu August 06, 2020
Lynches River Contracting Helps S.C. Racetrack to Re-Open
A raceway park is set to re-open in Kershaw, S.C., that promises to give people of all ages the opportunity to get behind the wheel to enjoy the speed and action that comes from driving on a road course....
World of Asphalt - Wed August 05, 2020
World of Asphalt to Honor 20 Asphalt Companies in Celebrating 20th Anniversary of the Show
World of Asphalt, an asphalt trade show and conference coming to Atlanta from March 9 to 11, 2021, is celebrating 20 years of bringing the asphalt industry together by honoring 20 asphalt companies with $500 toward attending the show....
Shelby County Reporter - Wed August 05, 2020
Lane Expansion on Alabama's I-65 Happening South of Birmingham
An Interstate 65 expansion project that involves planning, overlay and re-striping from the Shelby County Route 52 overpass to the south end of the Cahaba River Bridge in Alabama began in early July, with a completion target set for the late fall of 2020....
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....
