Blog Articles

Asphalt Surface Treatment Methods to Extend Pavement Life

If your community has spent a fortune over the years rehabilitating roads, you understand the work involved in creating and bringing road improvement projects to completion. Much of the heavy lifting is done in planning, from finding the funding to specifying a project’s parameters. Then, finally, the new ribbon of asphalt is installed and construction is completed! Our […]

Engineering News-Record on Smog-Eating Roads

Category: Blog Articles By: Michael Durante

PTI is on the forefront of photocatalytic road technology, and Engineering News-Record has taken notice. Read all about it here.

Asphalt Road Maintenance in the Age of COVID-19 Pandemic

Category: Blog Articles By: John Calvert

This year has been a very difficult one with most agencies being affected by the COVID19 pandemic in their daily operations, and many being forced to cut their asphalt pavement maintenance budgets. I’ve heard where some agencies have cut their entire paving budget, while others have only cut that part of the budget funded by local general funds, but not the part funded by […]

COVID-19 Hits Pavements Too

Category: Blog Articles, PTI in the News By: Chris Evers

PTI’s technical representative Chris Evers article, “COVID-19 pandemic hits pavements too”, was published in the July 2020 Transportation issue of the APWA Reporter.

Asphalt Restoration Solutions: What to Know

Category: Blog Articles By: Chris Evers

Introduction People often ask me, “Chris what can I do to make the asphalt roads in our community last longer?” I reply with all of the standard answers formulated over my 25 years in the industry. As I was starting to write this blog, I thought of my car owner’s manual (including some normal disclaimers, […]

Asphalt Surface Treatment vs. Genuine Rejuvenation

Category: Blog Articles By: Zack Helm

Over the past decade the concept of pavement preservation has seen a large increase in popularity. Road managers are finding that to effectively improve their network’s infrastructure, their tool box of roadway solutions must evolve. However, the resulting increase in treatment options has caused a bit of confusion, especially when comparing asphalt surface treatments vs. […]