KINGSTON - The recently acquired mobile asphalt plant, which has the capacity to produce 25 tons of asphalt per hour, will be utilized in the near future to deliver Asphaltic Concrete of the highest quality for road works in outlying and remote communities in Guyana.
Rawlston Adams, Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC) General Manager, who oversees the Garden of Eden asphalt plant and mobile unit, posited that the latter will allow the Ministry of Public Infrastructure “to achieve its goal of having paved roads in rural and outlying areas.”
The US $120,000 mobile plant is fully computerized, pollution control confirming to the highest environmental standards and has a mineral filler unit, the only plant with this capacity locally.
“It is public knowledge that significant strides have being made to improve the quality of roads countrywide; and quality asphaltic concrete important in achieving this” Mr. Adams stated.
The overwhelming requests for the standardization of road construction across the country has prompted the DHBC management in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Infrastructure to source the mobile unit, an investment the GM said “will benefit all the intended communities and its citizens.
He added, “Soon we will be able to take asphaltic concrete to Regions 1, 7, 8 and 9. These areas will have much better roads starting as early as the last quarter of 2015.”
