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35 - Sunday, April 1, 1990 - North Shore News

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NORTH VANCOUVER is home to a burgeoning techno- logy that is literally heating up the B.C. road-paving in-

dustry.

By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter

You wouldn’t expect to see an asphalt equipment manufacturing company participating in a trade fair designed to draw attention to the connections between Susiness and environmental conservation.

Michael Becker

But Pyrotech Asphalt Equipment Mfg. Co. Ltd. happens to be in the business of recycling aspha!t roads. The company’s presence at the re- cent Globe ’90 event was fitting.

Pyrotech’s president A! Rorison is the developer of something he calls “pyropaving,’’ or two-stage hot in-place recycling.

In simple terms, what Rorison has managed to do is invent a pat- ented machine that heats the sur- face of a worn-out asphalt road, removes two inches from the sur- face, recycles and rejuvenates the original road materials, replaces them and then rolls them out into a new road surface at a rate of 300-plus linear metres per hour.

Rorison’s machine is called the Pyropaver 300. The unit was perfected in 1988 after four years of tinkering. Since incorporating

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his company in January 1989 to manufacture the machine locally, Rorison has put out three Pyropaver 300s, each worth $1.75 million. A fourth will be ready in the next few weeks and a fifth will be completed in 242 months.

The pyropaving system received a thumbs up in a May 1989 letter to the company from Attorney General and Kamloops MLA Bud Smith. The Transportation and Highways Ministry contracted 400 lane-miles of highway to May us- ing the Pyrotech Machine and was happy with the results.

But Rorison said the paving in- dustry has reacted cautiously to the technological development.

‘*They’re waiting to see if it’s a flash in the pan or something legit,’’ he said. ‘‘It’s like anything, if you're doing it the conventional way and someone has come up with a new idea you wait. But the ones who are quick to react and get in at the beginning will do well, and the ones with the old dinosaur attitude will go broke.”’

So Rorison has to speculate a bit.

“‘The problem with building and selling these machines is that you have to convince the government first. Once you get the government convinced, you’ve got to convince the contractor,’ he said, adding, “And then I have to build the machine for the contractor who is servicing the government. So far

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