5 silos means 5 different types of asphalt mixes will be available at any given time. It also increases our storage capacity by 70% or 400 tonnes.

''The greater benefit lies in improved efficiency, allowing our production rate to remain consistent while providing a wider variety of mixes to better serve all our customers. We are the first ones to have five silos in the area and once fully operational we can supply five different mixes, including a mix for superpaves for cities and municipalities and driveway mix for our private customers,'' says Dennis Eby, All Roads Asphalt Plant manager.

''We are a customer-focused operation and they surely are going to love us more for our additional new mix offerings. We're gonna be like big smorgasbord here'', Eby adds with laughter.

We had to re-engineer the ground for our expansion plan. In about 4 weeks these new silos will be standing and in another 2 weeks all electrical work will be done. After that we will be ready to see how successful we were in turning our plant into a ''smorgasbord of asphalt mixes''.