Our asphalt emulsions are developed in response to your need for cost-effective treatments to preserve, maintain and extend the service life of roads. We offer conventional, rejuvenating, polymer modified and other high-performance emulsions, including our eSeries products, to suit your immediate and long-term road needs.

Why Asphalt Emulsions?

According to the Asphalt Emulsion Manufacturers Association, emulsions were developed in the early 1900s but their uses were limited to applications such as dust palliative. Today, through extensive laboratory and field research, emulsions are used in a variety of road applications at different stages of a road’s life cycle. The continual treating of roads over time using emulsions is what allows roads to achieve and sustain acceptable pavement condition indexes long term. This is called pavement preservation.

Pavement Preservation and Asphalt Emulsions

According to the Federal Highway Administration Expert Task Group, pavement preservation can be defined as “a program employing a network-level, long-term strategy that enhances pavement preservation by using an integrated, cost-effective set of practices that extend pavement life, improve safety and meet motorist expectations.”

Prior to the introduction of the pavement preservation concept in the late 90s, the state of America’s highway infrastructure was a significant cause for concern. Agencies across the country were experiencing unyielding road distresses and dwindling road budgets, applying hot mix as the only solution — which can be expensive and counterproductive when not strategically applied. Industry professionals shifted their focus to researching, developing and educating agencies on more ways emulsions could be applied for better and longer maintained roads. This would involve taking full advantage of the performance scope of various emulsion treatments and how each addresses a specific type of distress before it becomes a bigger, more expensive problem. Pavement preservation using various emulsions has since grown in popularity with agencies nationwide.

Asphalt Emulsions AND Hot Mix

Emulsions are not a replacement for hot mix, but rather a complement to help maintain your asphalt pavements, allowing more money to be properly allocated to the right hot mix or other applications for more roads in your network.

Click on any of the treatment names below for more detailed information and resources. Then, contact us to find out which of these treatments is best for your specific road needs.