Hot-In-Place Paving LLC (H.I.P.) is an environmentally friendly roadway resurfacing process that is completed on site using a mobile unit that mills and recycles 100% of the existing asphalt. The resulting product is as good as, if not better than, those used in the conventional paving industry. This unique process is faster than conventional paving operations, 90 percent cleaner in emissions, uses 95 percent less gravel and 75 percent less petroleum. H.I.P. repaves parking lots, roads and runways using 100 percent of the existing asphalt. Traditional repaving processes use equipment and trucks to tear up existing surfaces and carry the material to an asphalt plant, where machines mix about 25 percent of the material with rocks to create new asphalt to be trucked back to the site for pouring and processing. HIP Paving accomplishes all of these steps on the jobsite using a small train of moveable equipment. Two units heat the pavement to make it pliable, and a third unit applies more heat and mills out the top two inches of pavement. The milled material then goes into a main mill to be mixed with a recycled, oil-based rejuvenating agent, and an onsite lab tests the mix to ensure quality. Finally, the train lays the recycled asphalt and steel rollers press it into the required road shape. The train can process 15 feet of asphalt a minute, and vehicles may travel on the finished surface within 30 minutes of paving. The process results in the reuse of the same asphalt that is on the pavement itself. Trucks are not needed to bring asphalt to the site, eliminating traffic and emissions.
