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Bay Area Tire Recycling
Bay Area Tire Recycling, the only crumb rubber
facility in Northern California, has joined the RPA as a producer
member.
The company, started in 1998, is a demonstration
facility for the Link System from Australia, an ambient system
making 3/8" steel-free shreds and crumb to 30 minus. Its
equipment division, B&W Environmental Solutions, plans to
open other crumb rubber plants throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The company representatives are Larry Barnblatt,
president, and Brian Cardiff, vice president. You can contact
Barnblatt at 415-931-3381 and Cardiff at 510-562-4300. The corporate
office is at 2200 Sacramento St. #1106, San Francisco, CA 94115-2309.
The fax number is 415-929-8123.
CRM
CRM (Crumb Rubber Manufacturers), a Southern
California crumb rubber firm, has joined the RPA as a producer
member.
The company supplies crumb rubber for the
asphalt industry as well as molded goods and other products.
The company representatives are Dr. Barry
Takallou, president, and Michael Harrington, vice president.
The company is located at 15800 S. Avalon Blvd., Rancho Dominguez,
CA 90220. The phone is 310-538-2222. The fax number is 310-538-2227.
First Nation Recovery
First Nation Recovery, a tire recycling facility
recently opened on Cabazon Indian land in California, has joined
the RPA as a producer member.
It is the first tire recycling center on an
American Indian community, located in an eco-industrial park
dedicated to preserving nature and putting materials back in
a usable state. It produces crumb rubber in a range of sizes
to 40 mesh. EcoPave TP is it's enhanced formula of fine mesh
crumb rubber for the Asphalt-Rubber industry.
The company representatives are Robert Phillips,
general manager, and David Nuss, sales & marketing. Phillips
can be contacted at P.O.Box 297, Mecca, CA92254 The phone is
760-396-9936. The fax number is 760-396-0215. Nuss is at 2550
Appian
Way #209, Pinole, CA 94562. Phone: 510-758-9092.
Fax: 510-758-9040.
Petrochem Marketing
Petrochem Marketing, a 12-year-old manufacturer
of pavement maintenance products, has joined the RPA as an associate
member.
Flex Seal, its main product, is a slurry seal
emulsion containing recycled tire rubber. It uses a cold process
to mix rubber from scrap tires with asphalt, polymers, and other
additives.
The company representatives are Michael Burris,
president, and Brian Burris, vice president. The company is located
at 5235 Avenida Encinas #A, Carlsbad, CA 92008. The phone is
760-603-096 1. The fax number is 760-603-0962.
Western States Surfacing
Western States Surfacing, a provider of pavement
maintenance services since 1960, has joined the RPA as a user
member.
WSS offers a variety of road construction
and pavement maintenance options, including a rubberized chip
seal made with about 16% crumb rubber and 5% high natural rubber.
The company representatives are Gregory Reed,
president, and Murl Butler, marketing manager. They can be contacted
at P.O. Box 4770, Modesto, CA 95354. The phone is 209-525-9065.
The fax number is 209-525-9051.
East Arkansas Planning District
The East Arkansas Planning & Development
District, a nonprofit consulting agency serving local government
agencies in an 8,000 square mile area along the Mississippi River,
has joined the RPA as an associate member.
The district manages a six-county solid waste
district and operates an 11 -county waste tire district handling
an average of 160,000 tires annually.
The district representative is Richard Spelic,
executive director. He can be contacted at P.O. Box 1403, Jonesboro,
AR 72403. The phone is 870-932-3957. The fax number is 870-932-0135.
The e-mail address is rspelic@eapdd.com.
CR3 of Indiana
CR3 of Indiana, a scrap tire processing facility
in Muncie, Indiana, has joined the RPA as a producer member.
The company, in operation since 1995, markets
primarily to commercial entities. It can process tires to particles
ranging from a 2-inch chip to a 40 mesh.
The representative is Bill Grindle, director
of sales & marketing. He can be contacted at 2501 Mt. Pleasant
Blvd., Muncie, IN 47302. The phone is 765-286-6999. The fax is
765-286-5404.
Hotmix Industries
Hotmix Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of
portable asphalt plants for the Latin American market, has joined
the RPA as an associate member.
The company produces a highly portable computerized
drum mix plant with a production capacity from 70 to 175 TPH.
Its mission is to provide the Latin American market with the
most current U.S. technologies.
The representative is Andy Cox, manager of
the Rubber Plant Division. He can be reached at P.O. Box 692028,
San Antonio, TX 78269-2028. The phone is 210-490-7844. The fax
is 210-490-7736. The company's Internet address is www.asfalto.com.
Recipav
Recipav-Engenharia e Pavimentos, Lds., of
Portugal, a pavement contractor, has joined the RPA as a user
member. The company was founded in February by Dr. Jorge Sousa,
Paulo Fonseca, and Vasco Pampulim. (see story on page 8). The
representatives are Dr. Sousa and Fonseca, available at R. Luis
de Camoes, n 1.2070-101 Cartaxo, Portugal. The phone is +351-243-704934.
The fax is +351-243-704936.
Members on the move
Ross Kashiwagi
has relocated to the Sacramento office of Granite Construction
as branch division plant engineer. He has served as the contractor's
Asphalt-Rubber engineer for the Southern California region and
most recently was plant manager at Granite's Littlerock operation
near Palmdale. Kashiwagi is RPA secretary and cochairman of the
RPA California Task Force. He can be reached at 916-855-4400.
The fax number is 916-369-0429. The e-mail address is rkashiwagi@granitenet.com.
Pehr Malmstrom, DackRec AB, reports
the establishment of a crumb rubber facility in Malmo, Sweden.
He says the plant is currently supplying product for playgrounds
in Malmo and in France and he is eager to promote the use of
Asphalt-Rubber in Sweden.
Mike Masson, PolyTek Rubber and Recycling
CEO, reports the acquisition of the
Southwest Rubber plant near Tulsa, Oklahoma, which has
been renamed PolyTek Oklahoma. He also announced the addition
of Clay Richards and Larry Gilliland to the PRR sales force.
Richards was formerly with American Surface Technologies in Canada
and the U.S. Gilliland, formerly with EnTire in Nebraska, served
on the RPA board in 1998. Welcome back Larry.
FNF Construction
and Kevin Turner, project manager of Caltrans' I-8, have
received the "Gold Excellence in Rehabilitation Project
of the Year Award" by the state of California. FNF was recognized
for its ability of partner and its cooperation in the first quality
control quality assurance (QCQA) project for San Diego's Dist.
11.
Dick Miller
has returned to All States Asphalt as executive vice president.
All States Asphalt, an RPA member company since 1995, is based
in Massachusetts and serves as an Asphalt-Rubber supplier for
the New England states.
Foreign members get voting
option
Asphalt-Rubber contractors and crumb rubber
producers domiciled outside the U.S. will have the option of
voting membership under a resolution passed by the RPA Board
of Directors at its meeting in September.
According to Ross Kashiwagi, RPA secretary,
the foreign members will be given the option to remain as "associates",
or become "regular' members.
The resolution was a result of the expressed
desire of several non U.S. companies to have a more active role
in the development of the industry.
"Should the companies opt for full membership,
their assessments will be placed in a special "self-directed"
account to assist in the Asphalt-Rubber education and market
expansion in their countries or region," said Kashiwagi.
RPA Staff News
Isaac Shapiro
has joined the RPA office on a part-time basis and is responsible
for data base management. An Arizona State University student,
Shapiro is currently a junior majoring in marketing and international
business with a minor in Spanish. He will study in Madrid, Spain
this fall.
Michelle Maney,
RPA executive assistant, gave birth to Hannah Michelle on September
5. She checked in at six pounds, 11 ounces and was 19 1/2 inches
long.
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