The Infrared machine takes just 8-10 minutes to heat up a 4 sq metre area

Once heated the area is raked, rejuvenation,  liquid added and depressions topped up with fresh, hot asphalt.

The finished patch leaves a heat sealed edge.

Highway Engineers have been put under increasing pressure to find ways of maintaining the country’s roads under a burden of reduced budgets, increased traffic flow and environmental considerations. The Government’s attempts to reduce the amount of waste material ending up in landfill sites by introducing the Landfill Tax and this year trying to reduce the amount of new material being extracted from quarries using the Aggregates Tax, has meant that a new method of highway repair was essential. The cost of traditional patching was increasing every year, the cost of disposal was up, purchase of fresh tarmac was up and labour and plant costs were also increasing.

The use of modern technology to satisfy these financial pressures and Local Agenda 21 (the international environmental agreement) which has now been introduced into patching repairs on the Highway. Using Infrared technology, the asphalt road surface is heated up, recycled and re‑laid in minutes as a real alternative to traditional patching methods. For example using traditional methods a typical trench repair used 16 tonnes of new asphalt, whereby using the infrared system and recycling, in-situ, the existing surface material 1 tonne was used, resulting in a reduction of 15 tonnes of perfectly good, recyclable material being sent to landfill and a huge reduction of the carbon footprint.

Infra Red Trench Repair (Hot Bonded, Seamless, "Water tight" Repair)
This photograph illustrates a finished water tight infrared trench repair. This system guarantees longer service life of either trench or pot hole repair.	Illustrated here is a clear example of a hot bonded, seamless, "water tight" repair	These can also be easily repaired because of the system's flexibilty and manoeuverability.