Asphalt
As a leading asphalt supplier, we manufacture, supply, and deliver a full range of asphalt products from our extensive network of plants across the UK. Alongside our award-winning products, we’re proud to offer market-leading customer service, giving you peace of mind that your project is in the best hands.
Our expert technical team is ready to collaborate with you, designing products tailored to your specific performance and specification needs. Based in Moordale, Derbyshire, our UK technical centre is equipped to rigorously test and push our asphalt products to their limits. From project design to in-house and on-site testing and delivery, we’re with you every step of the way.
5 million
tonnes of asphalt is manufactured and supplied each year
32
dedicated asphalt plants Nationwide
95%
of roads in the UK are surfaced with asphalt
Partnering Expertly
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. By understanding you, your needs, and your projects, we ensure mutual success. We take pride in working closely with you to meet performance criteria, delivery schedules, and specifications with precision.
Sustainable Solutions
We’re leading the charge in sustainability within the building sector, and we want you to be part of that journey. From low-carbon asphalt using innovative biogenic binders to refining our manufacturing processes to be more energy and carbon efficient, we’re committed to reducing our environmental impact. Decarbonising quickly, we aim to positively influence nature and biodiversity.
Small load Collection
We know that time is critical, which is why we offer our Express Asphalt service, designed specifically for quick collections - in fact we guarantee a 30-minute turnaround for single product loads.
With a nationwide network of collection plants and a team of dedicated account managers, we’re here to make your job easier. Click here to find out more.
What we offer
We provide a wide range of asphalt solutions for everything from residential driveways to large-scale road repairs, and from permeable surfaces for sports courts to vibrant, coloured asphalt for a stylish touch. Our products are designed to meet your needs with reliability you can count on.
Whether you're looking for a strong base and binder layer for a stable, load-bearing foundation, or a surface course to create a smooth, durable surface with excellent skid resistance and waterproofing, we’ve got you covered. Our products meet both British and European standards, ensuring that you receive top-quality materials and service for every project.
Our high-performance asphalt products are suitable for a variety of applications, from home use to large industrial and commercial projects, including:
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Holcim is a company that is intrinsically sustainable - trusted and respected by stakeholders and the communities in which we operate.
Frequently Asked Question
Asphalt is a blend of aggregates (such as crushed rock, sand, gravel, or slag), a binder, and filler materials. It is commonly used for building and maintaining roads, parking lots, pavements, runways, playgrounds, and various other surfaces.
Tar, a potentially harmful substance, has not been used in asphalt production since the 1980s. Nowadays, asphalt is made using bitumen, a stable material derived from crude oil. Bitumen also allows for asphalt to be recycled or repurposed at the end of its lifespan.
Asphalt is designed to offer varying levels of strength and flexibility depending on its intended use. While there are seven general types of asphalt mixtures, three main categories account for 95% of the asphalt produced in the UK. These are:
- Asphalt Concretes (ACs)
This type of asphalt features aggregate particles that are continuously graded to form an interlocking structure, held together by bitumen. - Hot Rolled Asphalts (HRAs)
HRAs are dense, gap-graded bituminous mixtures where the combination of fine aggregate, filler, and high-viscosity binder play a key role in the material’s final performance. - Stone Mastic Asphalts (SMAs)
This gap-graded asphalt mixture includes a blend of single-sized coarse crushed aggregates, forming a stone skeleton bound by a high content of bitumen.
Warm Mix Asphalts are produced and applied at lower temperatures compared to traditional asphalt, using less energy and offering carbon savings without sacrificing quality. The use of WMAs can reduce CO2 emissions from asphalt production, road construction, and maintenance by up to 15%.
Asphalt is fully recyclable, and we are continuously striving to increase the amount of recycled material used in new asphalt mixtures - this is commonly referred to as recycled asphalt paving (RAP) . We have a several low carbon products in our range including Foamix and Super low carbon.
