Additve for Asphalts

Directa Plus developed a special G+® grade for asphalt additive with enhanced characteristics:
+35% resistance to the passage of vehicles
+46% resistance to deformation at same load
+250% service life
-35% permanent plastic deformation


In collaboration with Iterchimica, an Italian leader in asphalt chemical additives and road paving technologies, the G+® additive for asphalts is integrated in a polymeric super modifier containing specially selected plastic. This final product is known as Gipave® and it’s the building block for new roads or for streets maintenance and resurfacing.

  • Greater resistance
  • Longer life & More Sustainable
  • Resistance to the passage of vehicles
  • Less Maintenance & Durability Improvement

Applications

– Asphalts

Description

Directa Plus developed a special G+® grade for asphalt additive with enhanced characteristics:
+35% resistance to the passage of vehicles
+46% resistance to deformation at same load
+250% service life
-35% permanent plastic deformation

 

EFFECTS ON SUSTAINABILITY
Longer life
Greater resistance
Durability improvement
Less maintenance

Commercial consumer products

Ready-to-use additive

Together with Iterchimica Directa Plus developed a super additive for asphalts.
This product has already been used in the: Re-surfacing a section of a UK road in Curbridge, Oxfordshire, a trial at Rome’s Fiumicino airport on taxiway Alpha Alpha, a high traffic taxiway used for class E and F intercontinental aircraft such as Boeing 777s and Airbus A380s, on a section of Rome’s Strada Provinciale Ardeatina, on the Ponte San Giorgio bridge, etc.

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