Hawaii researchers are testing whether plastic waste and abandoned fishing nets can be safely reused in asphalt roads.

Each year, about 27 million tires end up in landfills, dumps and stockpiles, where they pose health and environmental hazards. These tires could get a second life as components of the roads they once ...

HOUSTON, July 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc. (NYSE: KRA), a leading global producer of styrenic block copolymers or SBCs, and TNK Bitumen Performance, a unit of TNK-BP, a ...

POTTER TWP. — Shell Polymers will partner with a chemical recycling company to pave roads at its petrochemical site with asphalt enhanced with recycled plastic additive. Shell on Thursday announced ...

The National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) announced the results of a study evaluating the role of ground tire rubber powder in asphalt mixture performance. Debunking a common industry belief, ...

Aduro Clean Technologies Inc., a clean technology company using the power of chemistry to transform lower-value feedstocks, like waste plastics, heavy bitumen and renewable oils, into resources for ...

CHARLOTTE, NC - BASF has appointed Steven Muncy as Market Development Manager, Asphalt Polymers, in North America. He will be based in Raleigh, NC. In his new role, Muncy is responsible for working ...

HOUSTON—Willem Vonk, application and technical service manager at Kraton Corp.'s polymers research facility in Amsterdam has won the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Modified Asphalt ...

Asphalt pavements have to handle far more stress today than they did decades ago. Heavier freight traffic, fluctuating ...