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After years of buying hot mix from the local supplier you've decided to purchase an asphalt plant and start producing it for yourself, and perhaps sell it commercially. Important decisions will have to be made, such as plant type, style, size, brand and budget.

PRIMACH batch plants provide the consistency that is crucial to your mix quality. All plant processes and components are carefully developed to ensure that feeding, heating, drying, screening and mixing seamlessly blend together.

That approach and the others means more maintenance and repairs are completed in a timely manner. And that leaves time for … more maintenance and repairs, which in the end ensures the plant lasts longer.

A slew of trends has come to the fore in asphalt mixing plants industry with manufacturers painstakingly working to develop a novel solution for asphalt mixing plants that would keep up with customers’ demand, along with industry requirements.

Sustainability has been part of the roadbuilding conversation for decades. Yet improvements that make the methods and machines more environmentally friendly continue to gain momentum.

The new demands in the paving business, such as the production of sustainable asphalt mixes, more economical mixes and mixes with greater durability, have an effect on the chain of inputs, projects and equipment.

Put it simply, asphalt is like glue, and it uses bitumen, an oil-based substance, to make sand and crushed rock stick to each other together. As a kind of commonly used road surface paving material, asphalt plays a vital part. It can be said that a roadway with a substandard blacktop material will fail prematurely. There are 7 aspects from which asphalt quality control starts.

Asphalt mix plants are used to create hot mix asphalt. It mixes aggregates and bitumen to create the hot mix paving material. The aggregates here can be a single-sized material or it can be a blend of various grades/sizes of materials.