Cherry Offers Onsite Asphalt Recycling

Cherry, a Houston-based recycling and demolition company, has announced it will now bring its fractionating equipment to road crews to recycle asphalt roadway material at job sites. The portable processing equipment fractionates asphalt roadway material into Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) for use in hot mix asphalt.

By fractionating RAP at the job site, Cherry contends contractors save time and transportation costs because asphalt material does not need to be shipped to another location for processing. The portable equipment fractionates asphalt material to a guaranteed size—1/2-inch to smaller—that can be immediately used in making hot mix asphalt for new roadways.

According to Wesley Guidry, division manager for Cherry’s portable equipment, fractionated RAP can comprise up to 25 percent of hot mix asphalt. This reduces the amount of virgin materials and oil needed for the finished product. And, it results in a lower finished product price.

“Crews that recycle by using fractionated RAP also are helping preserve the environment by reducing the amount of asphalt material that is dumped in landfills,” Guidry says.

Cherry’s portable fractionating equipment is capable of producing between 800 to 1,000 tons of RAP per day and can be mobilized to job sites throughout Texas and Louisiana.