At its high-volume asphalt facility in Hayes, UK, Tarmac has successfully integrated a state-of-the-art hot recycling drum plant into its operations.
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The hot drum recycling machinery processed RAP material for use on a major resurfacing project on the M25 motorway around London. The project, a partnership between
Nigel Bean, Tarmac manager at the Hayes plant, said: “We are now able to produced RAP products in-house, which means that we are able to further reduce the amount of material sent to landfill and cut carbon emissions and costs through reduced transport miles.” Tarmac currently has two other sites operating hot recycling drums in Ipswich, eastern England, and Hillwood, near Edinburgh, Scotland.