With a variety of new equipment and innovations as a backdrop, members of the Silica/Asphalt Milling Machine Partnership were recognized during World of Asphalt 2015. The ceremony last week marked the ...

The description of the equipment and process may not reveal the significant role that the asphalt milling machine plays in road construction, but it is key. The asphalt milling machine — also known as ...

While the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration plans to revamp its outdated silica-dust standard, a voluntary partnership of asphalt-paving groups is closing in on recommended methods to ...

A new document from NIOSH and the Silica/Asphalt Milling Machine Partnership contains best practices for equipment manufacturers, equipment owners, and highway contractors for preventing workers’ ...

Gary Fore, a now retired vice president of the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA), Lanham, Md., leads a voluntary partnership of asphalt-paving industry organizations that is researching and ...

The AP Cold Planer skid-steer attachment features an open drum said to increase productivity and reduce re-milling, dust, noise and uneven cuts; a front-down design that contains debris and in the ...

*Hourly rate represents the monthly ownership costs divided by 176, plus operating cost. Unit prices used in this calculation: diesel fuel, $3.98/gal; mechanic's wage, $51.24/hour; and money costs at ...