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Welcome to our Asphalt Equipment website
This website contains information on most of North America’s largest active asphalt equipment dealers. Individuals and contractors with asphalt equipment are also encouraged to list their equipment on this website.
Equipment lists are received and updated on a minimum of a weekly basis. So if you are looking for asphalt equipment dealers you have come to the right place.
The site contains news and used asphalt equipment, asphalt plants and all construction components. People will find a broad range of used asphalt paving machinery including asphalt paver, asphalt plants and all of the components that comprise a plant.
Hoptlant is a compilation of new and used asphalt construction equipment and was setup to help businesses purchase good quality services and products at reasonable prices.
We also sell or hire all construction equipment from heavy machinery to tools and work wear. You will find all the information you need on our site to ensure you purchase or hire the right construction equipment. We have advice on large and small cranes, Hydraulic excavators or diggers and concrete mixers.
Any form of building working would not be the same without a Hydraulic excavator, they are the work horse of the construction industry and carry out many jobs from leveling the land to form the base of any building to lifting and clearing.
Most modern day Hydraulic excavator or diggers come with several attachments that allow them to perform different duties from small cranes to drills.
We have a large selection of concrete mixers and asphalt mixers to choose from and they can be used to mix many form of concrete and asphalt.
Paving and Roads
It’s important when you are maintaining existing, drives, pavements and roadways that you use good quality paving equipment. It’s interesting to note that paving equipment has a pivotal role in ensuring that business and transportation links are maintained. Over 80% of the nations road are paved and this number is rising.
There are two main types of paving and they are concrete paving and asphalt paving. There are advantages to both methods and substances and it’s important you understand their strong point and used them in their ideal conditions.
Concrete or asphalt can be used for for paving driveways and roads. The opinion on which is the best is based mainly on your usage and their unique characteristics.
Concrete Paving
One of the main advantages of concrete is the fact that it is very strong and durable and is suitable for roads that must accomodate heavy traffic flow. Of course the thing that makes concrete so durable is also in some ways it’s bad point too, it is not very flexible and is suseptable to heat and movement causing cracking.
Asphalt Paving
Asphalt on the other hand is a much more flexible type of road surface material and is far better at coping with extreme heat and movement. One other advantage of Asphalt is that it absorbs heat well leading to quicker melt of snow covered roads in mountain areas.