THE recently acquired US$120,000 mobile asphalt plant which has the capacity to produce 25 tonnes of asphalt per hour, will start operations in the near future. The mobile asphalt plant will be able to deliver asphaltic concrete of the highest quality for road works in outlying and remote communities in Guyana.

The US$120,000 mobile plant is fully computerised, features pollution control conforming to the highest environmental standards and has a mineral filler unit, the only plant with this capacity, locally.
General Manager of the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation (DHBC),
Rawlston Adams, who oversees the Garden of Eden asphalt plant and mobile unit, related that the mobile plant will allow the Ministry of Public Infrastructure “to achieve its goal of having paved roads in rural and outlying areas.”
“It is public knowledge that significant strides have been made to improve the quality of roads countrywide; and quality asphaltic concrete is important in achieving this,” Adams stated.
The overwhelming requests, he noted, for the standardisation 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 that Adams said “will benefit all the intended communities and its citizens.”
Adams added, “Soon we will be able to take asphaltic concrete to Regions 1 (Barima-Waini), 7 (Cuyuni-Mazaruni), 8 (Potaro-Siparuni) and 9 (Upper Takutu-Upper Esequibo). These areas will have much better roads starting as early as the last quarter of 2015.”