GREENMANTRA’s waxes made from waste plastic meet stringent engineering requirements of transportation authorities in North America
BRANTFORD, ON [June 16, 2021] —GREENMANTRA TECHNOLOGIES is exhibiting at the National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT) 2021 Test Track Conference in Auburn, Alabama, June 22-24th. The company will promote its sustainable CERANOVUS® waxes, which are derived from 100% recycled plastics and function as performance-enhancing asphalt additives.
Asphalt is used to pave roads and highways, a vital part of the nation’s transportation infrastructure and global supply chain. Whether you are running errands in your community or shipping materials in a global value chain, asphalt roads keep things running smoothly. Asphalt made with recycled plastics helps the community, the economy, and the planet.
“We view waste plastic as a resource,” explained Christy Sapp, GREENMANTRA’s Director for Global Market Development. “GREENMANTRA’s advanced recycling technology transforms waste plastics into performance-enhancing additives that boost asphalt performance, delivering both cost and resource efficiencies.”
Asphalt Industry Committed to Sustainability
The asphalt industry is committed to sustainability. As a global authority in asphalt research and technology, NCAT works closely with the US Federal Highway Administration and state DOTs developing new pavement construction materials and techniques.
“Using recycled plastic in asphalt could offer real benefits, but we need sound performance data before putting those concepts in practice,” says Dr. Fan Yin, an Assistant Director of NCAT. “GREENMANTRA’s waxes yielded very positive results in our laboratory testing and simulation efforts,” Yin said. NCAT’s studies suggest that the addition of a low dosage of GREENMANTRA’s CERANOVUS® waxes could potentially reduce asphalt pavement thickness by 10%, delivering the same predicted cracking performance as a thicker pavement structure, reducing the material costs of the project, and extending asphalt coverage with a lower carbon footprint.
GREENMANTRA has the technology to pave the way to a more sustainable future by transforming waste plastics into a value-creating additive for asphalt applications. “Because our products are derived from 100% recycled plastics, each mile paved with GREENMANTRA’s additives has the potential to divert ~3 million plastic bags from landfill,” Sapp explained. “GREENMANTRA waxes are the right additive to do big things for pavement performance and the planet.”
About GREENMANTRA TECHNOLOGIES
GREENMANTRA TECHNOLOGIES is a leader in advanced recycling that transforms waste plastics into value-creating specialty waxes and polymers. GREENMANTRA’s products are used as performance enhancers and processing aids in roofing, asphalt roads, extruded plastic parts and other construction infrastructure applications with useful lifespans of 20-50+ years. In each application, GREENMANTRA improves product performance, provides a more efficient manufacturing process, and allows manufacturers to greatly increase the recycled content of their end products without sacrificing performance. GREENMANTRA is diverting thousands of metric tons annually of waste plastic from our oceans and landfills into new applications.