Stronger, Longer-Lasting Performance

Realize immediate cost savings due to less asphalt being required to meet your design objectives, or savings down the road by extending the life of the asphalt.

• Cost-effective – superior performance with less asphalt thickness
• Extended life – reduces rutting and cracking
• 3D reinforcement – provides 3D (isotropic) reinforcement throughout the treated layers
• Material properties – improves tensile strength, resilient modulus, Marshall Stability and Flow, and others

FORTAfied Asphalt vs. Non-FORTAfied Asphalt

	FORTAfied Asphalt		vs.	Non-FORTAfied Asphalt
	w/less thickness	w/standard thickness		w/standard thickness
Strength	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal
Service Life	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal
Fatigue Life	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal
Rutting Resistance	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal
Shoving Resistance	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal
Crack Propagation Resistance	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal
Erosion (Pot Holes) Resistance	Equal or Greater	Greater	vs.	Equal

Additional Benefits When Using Less Asphalt Thickness

Stronger than your traditional mixture. Reduces cracking and rutting.

While we have known for years that adding reinforcing fibers to asphalt would substantially increase the life of that asphalt, it was very difficult to quantify the years and calculate that value for our customers. Recent research has provided more detail about the benefits provided by FORTA-FI. FORTA-FI allows for substantially reduced asphalt thickness while retaining the designed strength objectives. The thickness of asphalt can be reduced 35% on average while maintaining the same performance requirements of a traditional (full) thickness application without FORTA-FI. Case studies developed by Arizona State University utilizing pavement design software [Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG)] detail these savings. This same program also calculates that the longevity increase would be 50% or more, beyond the same thickness of non-FORTAfied asphalt. Only FORTAfied asphalt provides the benefits of immediate savings through reducing thickness or extended life, or both.

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FORTAfied asphalt for Tons of Savings! Use our Savings Calculator to compare material costs between a traditional asphalt mixture and FORTAfied Asphalt.

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Mixes thoroughly in seconds!

Ease of use is critical to the success of any product, even a product capable of providing the cost savings of FORTA-FI. Supplying reinforcing fibers to the asphalt industry since 1982 has taught us that to be effective, the product has to be simple to add to both batch plants and drum plants at all production speeds, at a prescribed dosage, with no change in placement or compaction practices. FORTA-FI is uniquely capable of meeting all of these requirements.

Easy to Specify

• Available in three (3) specially-formulated blends
• Each blend is engineered to reinforce your specific asphalt mixture

Easy to Produce

• Add one bag (dosage) per ton of asphalt
• Mix in batch and drum plants at all production speeds
• Mixes thoroughly in seconds
• Distributes throughout asphalt uniformly and completely
• Formulated for different mixing temperatures by blend

Easy to Construct

• No modifications needed to placement practices
• No modifications needed to compaction practices
• No modifications needed to testing practices

Easy to Justify

• Easy to specify, produce, and construct, and uses 35% less asphalt thickness or lasts 50% longer than your traditional mixture