The Wildcat Stadium at the University of New Hampshire has been awarded the American Sports Builders Association 2024 Outstanding Facility of the Year in the Outdoor Track category. Opened in 2016, the facility hosts the men’s and women’s teams. Recent upgrades were necessary to replace the track and ensure NCAA compliance. The full-depth track reconstruction […]

Studies outline simple, cost-effective turf maintenance practices and perimeter containment systems A pair of newly released studies from European experts in the United Kingdom and Denmark looked into the safety of artificial turf using recycled rubber— in particular, how often the infill escaped containment. Both studies came to a similar conclusion: crumb rubber infill is […]

National competition too showcase cutting-edge asphalt innovations at NCAT The National Center for Asphalt Technology at Auburn University (NCAT), the National Asphalt Pavement Association (NAPA) and the Minnesota Department of Transportation’s Cold-Weather Pavement Testing Facility (MnROAD) have launched the NextPAVE Challenge, a national competition to identify, evaluate and advance innovative pavement technologies ready for full-scale […]

Kirkland, Washington-based material solutions provider Prism Worldwide has  announced a trio of groundbreaking innovations poised to transform the recycling and sustainable materials industries. The company has made key advancements in odor reduction, sustainable thermoplastic vulcanizates (TPV) development, and high-content Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer (EPDM) reuse, three challenges long considered barriers to wider adoption of recycled […]

Tire and rubber recycler posts record-breaking year. Calls for more raw material and circular product use With an all-time high turnover and the best operating results ever, 2024 was a record-breaking year for the Genan Group.  Significant growth in sales of its main product, rubber granulate, indicates that circular products are gaining a firmer foothold. […]

RubberForm is celebrating 20 years of RubberForm’s parking lot safety products. It all started with a portable sign base in 2005, which has become the go-to solution for parking lots and curbside-to-go nationwide. Made in America from 100 percent post-consumer recycled tire rubber, they are aerodynamic design and heavy enough to stay upright. Yet light […]

New report outlines progress and responsible growth showing an end market utilization rate topping 80% in 2024 Liberty Tire Recycling has released its 2024 Sustainability Report, highlighting another year of progress toward its vision of a more sustainable, circular economy. In 2024, Liberty collected more than 215 million end-of-life tires and reclaimed over 4.7 billion […]

Tire derived aggregate (TDA) is not a new material.  It got its start in the early nineties as “tire shreds” — the first material derived from downsizing and processing scrap tires. There were no specifications for the material and no uses. But researchers, engineers, academicians and tire recyclers soon recognized the engineering properties in the […]