NDOT’s materials lab tests asphalt all year round for durability

To keep everyone safe, our roads need to be durable and that is where Nevada Department of Transportation’s materials lab ...
For Construction Pros

Pavement Testing Equipment

Troxler Electronic Laboratories has added the Enhanced RoadReader Plus Model 3451 to its line of nuclear moisture density gauges. Measures moisture and density of soils, aggregate, asphalt and ...
For Construction Pros

Asphalt Analyzer Laboratory Test Machine

Asphalt Analyzer Laboratory Test Machine The InfraTest Asphalt Analyzer provides an automated and enclosed method of performing solvent extractions to verify asphalt content on bituminous mixture, and ...
Oil

Ivanhoe completes Athabasca bitumen test

HOUSTON, June 27-- Ivanhoe Energy Inc. completed an Athabasca bitumen test run at its commercial demonstration plant in Bakersfield, Calif., using HTL, the company's proprietary heavy oil upgrading ...
Mining

First solid bitumen test shipment on its way from Alberta to China

A test shipment of bitumen oil from Alberta is on its way to China, but it didn’t get to a British Columbia port by pipeline – it was moved by train through Prince Rupert in a semi-solid form commonly ...