Thursday, October 15, 2015

Warning: Pothole Season Ahead



Winter is just around the corner, and with the annual freeze-thaw cycle comes everybody's least favorite time of year…pothole season!  Your hometown newspaper will write about them, and the local television station will do 'on the scene' reports showing them, but why doesn't someone come up with a better way to fight these pesky potholes?  Is there anything that state and local governments can do to try to win this war against unsightly and possibly dangerous pavement blow-outs?

FORTA Corporation's high tensile strength fiber for asphalt three-dimensionally reinforces hot-mix, warm-mix, and patching pavement mixes.  If your roadway, parking lot, or driveway weren't fiber-reinforced during their initial construction, consider using FORTA-FI PAT® fibers for your pothole and utility patch repairs.  When used in properly cleaned and prepared repair sections, the polyolefin/aramid blend of fibers provides added strength and durability to help keep asphalt mix in the hole…where it belongs.  Repeatedly filling the same hole over and over again throughout the winter is frustrating and dangerous for road maintenance crews.  There are plenty of things on the "to do" list during snow season, so fix pop-outs right the first time! 
  
The PAT blend of FORTA-FI® is added to material at the asphalt production plant, at the rate of 1 pound of fiber per 1 ton of asphalt.  Producers can now offer their customers a better patching product.  FORTA-FI PAT® fibers can be used in either hot or cold patch mixes, providing a "Patch Plus Fiber" application to Old Man Winter's favorite calling card, the dreaded pothole!

Go Stronger…Go Longer with FORTA-FI® high-tensile strength fiber for asphalt!

For more information, please visit: www.forta-fi.com

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