ALON USA and Wright Asphalt announced plans to build a tire rubber modified asphalt plant in Big Spring, Tex. The plant will be built at the ALON refinery site. Groundbreaking is scheduled for next month, and should be complete by April 2002. This facility will be the first in West Texas to use ground tires to manufacture premium road asphalts.
The new plant will use Wright's Tire Rubber Modified Asphalt Cement and Liquefied Tire Rubber technologies to combine recycled ground tires and asphalt creating products for use in paving roads throughout West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. This facility will be the exclusive supplier of asphalts utilizing Wright's technology in these areas. The products produced by the facility will be used in hot mix and chip seal applications and can often help substantially increase the service life of asphalt pavements.
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