SOUTH African contractors have recently employed a CatR PM200 Cold Planer and a RM300 Rotary Mixer to upgrade a well-travelled road in Cape Town.

Caterpillar says each of the machines offers industry-leading features and productivity; but together, they offer an unsurpassed productive and cost effective solution to the road rehabilitation process.

Cape Town's N2 is a strategic South African highway that connects the port city with the country's southwestern region. Due to increasingly heavy traffic on the highway, it was in need of an upgrade.

Cape Town-based contractor Vusela (one of the city's largest) was awarded the government contract to remove the asphalt layers and stabilize the subbase to strengthen the road's load capacity in preparation for resurfacing.

According to South African and Near East Paving Representative and Sales Manager Johann Hahn, Vusela's Operations Manager Alan Hendricks was satisfied with machine performance (for both the PM200 and the RM300) and the technical support provided by Barloworld and Caterpillar.

‘Vusela first utilized the PM200 on the project to remove the existing layers of asphalt, achieving a cutting depth of up to 10cm on one pass,’ Hahn says.
‘Crews then used the RM300 to reclaim and remix the road's subbase at a depth of 16 cm. A percentage of water was accurately mixed into the processed material through the RM300's water spray option, helping to facilitate the compaction process.’


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