Roads/Highways

Mastic asphalt wearing courses on roads are characterised by high resistance to deformation and a high skid resistance that meets the required standard even after many years of use. Mastic asphalt road surfaces have a long service life, they can feature excellent low-noise properties and are environmentally friendly because recyclable.
Mastic asphalt is used as a wearing course on highways starting from the 1960s. As an example, today mastic asphalt wearing courses account for approximately 46 percent of the Federal Highway Network in Germany. Currently, extensive research work and application work are conducted in Switzerland for example to bring the mastic asphalt technology on highways on an even higher level: further noise-reduced mastic asphalt wearing courses and optimizing the LCC – to make mastic asphalt even more cost-effective.