Antigo Breakers Ltd.
www.antigobreakers.co.uk

Who are we? A specialist contractor providing time and cost effective, high quality and environmentally favourable maintenance processes for concrete and asphalt pavements throughout the UK and Europe.

Antigo Breakers operate Badger Breakers® which are manufactured by Badger State Highway Equipment Inc. of Wisconsin, USA.

Antigo Breakers objectives are:

We can offer two distinct methods of maintaining pavements:

  1. Processes that require the minimum amount of surface removal to re-instate the original thin overlay or pavement characteristics e.g. anti skid surfacing, slurry sealing and re-texturing.
  2. Processes that recycle the existing materials, but retain structural stiffness within the processed layer, allowing designers to re-construct the pavement with the minimum asphalt overlay.

Benefits: Cost savings in new materials, reduction in construction time and environmental considerations.

Who are our customers?

We are a service provider to maintenance contractors, Local Authorities, major “blue chip” construction companies, demolition contractors and specialist sub contractors.

A complete & flexible service using the latest technology & equipment……….

We provide a modern fleet of breakers, utilising the latest technology and innovation techniques to provide an efficient and reliable service supporting our core business of Cracking & Seating, Rubblizing and Breaking for removal. A total contract package can be supplied in support of our operations, including vibration monitoring, sweeping, coring, rolling, FWD testing and analysis.

Our fleet of milling machines ranging from 1000mm to 350mm are all fitted with fine milling drums. Other drum sizes are available to suit various crack repair operations and maintenance works.

Applications & Advantages of our operations:

1. Cracking & Seating - First consideration for in-situ recycling & rehabilitation of a failed concrete pavement to accept asphalt overlay.
Application Airfields, motorways, trunk roads, urban roads & streets, lay-down areas & access roads.
Advantages Reduces the effect of reflective cracking in the asphalt overlay.
Cost effective in-situ recycling operation.
Environmentally acceptable compared with alternative methods of Reconstruction.
 
2. Rubblizing - Second consideration for in-situ recycling & rehabilitation of a failed concrete pavement to accept asphalt overlay.
Application Airfields, motorways, trunk roads, urban roads & streets, lay-down areas and access roads.
Advantages Eliminates reflective cracking.
Cost effective in-situ recycling operation.
Reduces asphalt overlay thickness compared with full reconstruction alternatives.
Environmentally acceptable compared with the alternative of removal & re-deposition.
 
3. Breaking for Removal - Final consideration for recycling and secondary processing of a failed concrete pavement.
Application All concrete pavements.
Advantages Consistent product sizing, hence easier lifting and secondary processing.
Speed of production compared with hydraulic breakers.
Increased secondary crushing production.
Increase in haulage efficiency, with fewer movements
 
4. Fine Grinding - To re-instate skid resistance characteristics.
Application All pavements.
Advantages Improves safety & increases the life of pavement.
Speed: a single operation.
 
5. Fine Milling - Retexturing and removal of thin surfaces and white lines.
Application Airfields, roads and urban streets, removal of anti-skid surfaces, retexturing, line removal.
Advantages Removal of thin surfaces without significantly reducing the underlying
pavement thickness.
Pavement left with a fine textured finish, ready to accept a new surface with minimum new material wastage.

GROUND BREAKING PROJECTS…………………………………………

This year, Antigo has implemented several highly significant developments relating to concrete maintenance. Considerable cost savings were achieved in both cases.

Cracking & Seating - Heathrow Airport.

We introduced cracking & seating to the London Heathrow Airport Taxiway refurbishment programme. This is the first time that this process had been used on a major commercial airport worldwide.

The BAA team had to look beyond traditional runway rehabilitation techniques to achieve cost savings, minimise disruption, and save time. Full-scale trials established that this solution was suitable for heavyweight aircraft travelling at relatively low frequency on concrete pavements. Monitoring of actual deflections on Heathrow’s taxiways verified its suitability, and in May 2004 work commenced on the first “crack & seat” pavement at Heathrow.

Cost savings: 25% in pavement construction
Environmental issues: 90% reduction in construction traffic.

Suitable for urban roads & runways………….Although the technique developed by BAA’s Engineers by a series of cracking & seating trials is more complicated to suit their purposes than the conventional operation currently carried out on our major highways, the basic process is suitable for all concrete pavements including urban roads.

Rubblising - Weeley Bypass.

For the first time in the UK, a highway was reconstructed using a multi head breaker and the Antigo rubblizing technique.

Cost savings: £100,000 saved by the main contractor on a 5,600 sq. m. reconstruction project.
Recycling: 1,700 tons of reinforced concrete pavement.
Environmental issues: A reduction of 80 no. 32 ton tipper movements on the highway, resulting in considerable saving in time and disruption to road users, the general public and residential properties.
 

Antigo Provides Cost Effective Pavement Maintenance

Antigo Breakers is a member of The British Airports Group.

Antigo Breakers Ltd
Cobweb Buildings, The Lane, Lyford,
Wantage, Oxfordshire. UK. OX12 0EG

Tel: +44 (0)1235 869021
Fax: +44 (0)1235 869022

Email: mailbox@antigobreakers.co.uk
Web: www.antigobreakers.co.uk

 

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