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various asphalt materials to contractors engaged within the S’hamba
Sonke Programme.
“Besides having access to world class asphalt materials, local
production means significant cost savings regarding supply of finished
materials as well as direct and indirect business growth for local busi-
nesses providing products and services to the asphalt manufacturing
and road construction service delivery in the region,” Garrioch says.
Mullins says that the company is also assisting an undisclosed
municipality to produce its own cold-mix asphalt to National Cold
Asphalt’s exacting standards. “We will provide them with the advice
they need to run an efficient and very productive cold-mix asphalt
production plant.
“The roads authority will benefit by being able to roll out essen-
tial road construction projects quicker and more cost effectively by
being able to produce its own high quality, bulk and bagged cold-mix
asphalt,” says Mullins.
He reports that National Cold Asphalt has had similar enquiries
with other municipalities who have expressed a keen interest in the
Repairs being carried out using hot mix in a bag which is being specified
as an approved and effective alternative to conventional, bulk hot mix
asphalt by consulting engineers.
The company’s hand operated chip spreader, known as Chippy, has been
acknowledged by the Construction Industry Development Board as a very effective
method of undertaking single and double seals using labour-based methods.
company’s asphalt manufacturing and sustainable job creation consul-
tancy services.
This initiative is being complemented by another one of the compa-
ny’s ventures that will see National Cold Asphalt produce an asphalt
mix from 100% recycled asphalt pavement that it will produce from
milled pavement residues it collects from municipalities.
Mullins says National Cold Asphalt has been conducting tests with
10 kg samples of the material, and the results have been extremely
positive. The material will be used to rejuvenate stressed pavements.
It will be sprayed onto existing road surfaces that are starting to show
signs of distress, increasing their flexibility and therefore, reducing
stripping and cracking of brittle pavements.
While the quality of cold-mix asphalt materials produced by the
company is well known, both locally and abroad, it is National Cold
Asphalt’s persistent efforts in using its high grade products to develop
and empower productive small businesses in the South African
construction sector that will have a visibly high impact and leave a
lasting legacy.