Renewing Asphalt and Paving a Sustainable Future
Our proven technology turns recycled asphalt shingles (RAS) into pellets that mix perfectly with hot mix asphalt (HMA), providing asphalt producers with a reliable option that diverts millions of tons of waste from landfills.
How RenuCore Achieves Performance and Sustainability
The paving industry no longer has to choose between performance and sustainability. Our pioneering technology pelletizes both post-industrial and post-consumer shingle waste and creates the ideal conditions for transforming oxidized asphalt into performance grade (PG) asphalt. The resulting paving product provides equivalent performance and greater recycled content, opening the door to cost savings, easier storage of materials, and reduced environmental impact.
What Makes Our Method Different?
We took a new approach to the decades-old problem of how to incorporate RAS into HMA. Unlike prior efforts, our focus was on proper characterization of the oxidized asphalt binder and the resulting need to restore it to a softer, standard performance grade used in asphalt paving.
Our method softens the entire shingle, including aggregate and fiberglass, back to a performance grade suitable for paving, allowing easy incorporation into HMA and reducing the need for virgin asphalt.
The renewed asphalt pellets are coated with a durable shell organic blend that protects the finished core during storage, ensuring a continuous and reliable supply for HMA production.
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Making a Circular Economy a Reality in the Asphalt Industry
At RenuCore, we have turned a financial and environmental crisis into a solution that keeps petroleum-based asphalt shingles out of our landfills while providing durable, high-quality paving materials for the roads we all rely on for transportation and commerce.
For asphalt producers and C&D recyclers alike, our innovative recycling process offers a game-changing opportunity: a reliable, recyclable material that ensures continuous supply and contributes to a circular economy for asphalt. By reimagining the process of creating paving materials that utilize RAS, we have created a solution that better manages our resources through circular business practices in waste collection, repurposing materials, and recycling.
When partnering with RenuCore, you’re paving the way to the future – using recycled materials to build better roads and cut down on waste.
Frequently Asked Questions
CertainTeed values partnerships across industries. Its collaboration with Asphaltica, now RenuCore, is a key step in reducing asphalt shingle waste and benefits both the environment and the asphalt industry. RenuCore’s technology, developed by industry professionals with over 40 years of experience each, allowed CertainTeed to support a proven process, delivering the advocacy and reliability deserved by the asphalt industry.
RenuCore’s pelletized product can be introduced directly through your RAP feeder, where it will blend exceptionally well into your existing hot mix.
We have completed a full course of laboratory quality testing as well as field performance testing of pavements that use RenuCore RAS pellets. All test reports are available upon request.
Using RenuCore RAS pellets can replace up to 5% by weight.
CertainTeed is working diligently to achieve an aggressive goal of 50% waste reduction by 2035. Having a hand in what happens to their shingles and other roofing products further down the pipeline is a logical step in ensuring less of their products wind up in our nation’s landfills.
Yes, there is no separation of components; the entire shingle is incorporated into the pelletization process.
CertainTeed is making the RenuCore manufacturing IP available for license by construction and demolition (C&D) recyclers and hot mix asphalt producers; we are not selling the pellets themselves.
RenuCore RAS pellets are a shelf-stable product that can be stored for at least 12 months, ensuring a continuous and reliable supply for your HMA production needs.
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