Porto Alegre will have automated asphalt plants.

Porto Alegre City Hall - To expand and improve road maintenance services in the capital, the City Hall is investing in the acquisition of two new asphalt production plants. This Friday, the 4th, the acting mayor Sebastião Melo, the municipal secretary of Public Works and Roads, Mauro Zacher, and the city's attorney general, João Batista Linck Figueira, signed the contract with the company supplying the equipment.

With the new acquisitions, asphalt processing capacity will be expanded from 50 to 280 tons per hour. The investment for modernizing the road maintenance service infrastructure is R$ 3,2 million. Operations will begin early next year.

The asphalt plants, which will be used by Smov, are automated and adapted to operate with natural gas or fuel oil. In addition to the computerized operating system, which monitors operational parameters and data, the new plants have other advantages such as reduced truck loading time, predisposition for asphalt recycling, and an air-conditioned control cabin, ensuring greater safety and comfort for operators.

The equipment will be installed in the Sarandi neighborhood, North Zone (João Elustondo Filho street, 700) and in Restinga, South Zone (Walter Peracchi Barcellos street, 33). According to the Secretary of Public Works, the location of the equipment will favor the logistics of asphalt distribution throughout the city. Secretary Mauro Zacher also highlighted that an increase in the number of teams is planned for next year, which will add to the benefits of the new acquisitions such as higher quality, more asphalt, and better working conditions.

"Maintaining the city is a daily struggle, and the demand for road maintenance is very high, so we are taking an important step to offer a better quality service to the population," emphasized the acting mayor, recalling that the rainy periods have caused a lot of damage to the city's roads.

Currently, the city government has three asphalt plants, which have a total processing capacity of 50 tons per hour. With this acquisition, the old, technologically outdated plants will be decommissioned once the new ones are fully operational.

The new power plants will be supplied by Bomag Marini Equipamentos LTDA, the winner of the electronic auction.

Service qualificationThe new equipment will also allow for reduced truck loading times, prepare for future use of asphalt recycling, and feature an air-conditioned, soundproofed operator's cabin, ensuring greater safety and comfort for operators, who will receive 40 hours of training provided by the equipment manufacturer.

SustainabilityIn addition to improving quality, investment is being made in a sustainable system with very low environmental impact. The new equipment is less polluting because it uses natural gas. Furthermore, it utilizes a filter that reuses the particles generated in the asphalt concrete manufacturing process, preventing them from being released into the atmosphere.