Current Projects

Tipping the balance for mine restoration and waste recycling

In November 2023, the recovery of 800 tonnes of used Off-The-Road tyres and conveyor belts from a remote region in...
Valorisation of Scrap Tyres Pyrolysis Derived Products

Monash University We allocated Monash University a grant of $230,000. This grant aims to develop two innovative...
Rubber blending plant for regional Victoria

Cranes Asphalting It is exciting to see the first regional asphalt manufacturing plant beginning production of rubber...
Recycled train platform coping and platform tactiles

McConnell and Dowell, Level Crossing Removals, and Baron Rubber Focusing on products for the rail sector, this project...
Sustainable Modular and Recycled Tyre House

Jubilee Living – S.M.A.R.T House Following on from a previous project we supported back in 2017, this new project...
Just 1.7% could make a big impact on local road users and the environment
OTR tyre-derived crumb rubber in Australian roads

Tyre Stewardship Australia teams up with Australian flexible Pavement Association (AfPA) and Sunshine Coast Council to...
Recycled Concrete Safety Barriers – SafeRoads & University of Melbourne

Australian ingenuity delivers next generation of road barriers to increase public safety and decrease waste. A new...
Crumb Rubber Modified Bitumen for Local Victorian Roads

Light Traffic Crumb Rubber Asphalt Boral Australia has worked with the Victorian Department of Transport and the City...
Crumb Rubber Modified Bitumen Trialed in Tasmania

Crumb rubber hits the road in Tasmania More than 1240 end-of-life truck tyres have been diverted from landfill, turned...
Golflex: Paving the way for a greener course

Get on the green side of golfing Golflex is an Australian product developed by Flexiroc Australia in partnership with...
Porous Lane: Waste Tyre Permeable Pavement

Turning used tyres into new flood-free pavements By including high levels of rubber granules into its formulation,...
Taurus Mats: Tyre tough agricultural mats

Turning used tyres into woven mats for safer farms An innovative Queensland farmer is using low energy upcycling of...
Protectiflex: Blast Protective Concrete [Flexiroc]

Turning used tyres into fire and blast resistant concrete material Protectiflex is an ingenious product using recycled...
Crumb Rubber Capacity Expansion (for Spray Seal in Qld)

The project delivers an isolated product path in order to remove the risk of cross contamination at load out of other...
RAP Crumb rubber asphalt mix

Develop an asphalt mix with crumb rubber and a high amount of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) suitable for local...
Permeable Pavement [University of Melbourne and Merlin Site Services]

High-tech pavement that can water trees TSA is supporting research by the University of Melbourne into the use of...
Roads [City of Mitcham]

TSA works with Local Government to turn old tyres into better roads The City of Mitcham, in South Australia, is the...
CalTrans Gap Graded Technology Transfer

Project will provide Gap Graded product as specified by CALTRANS (California) to be an alternative, equivalent product...
Crumb rubber asphalt trial

This project will promote sustainable solutions for surfacing heavily trafficked roads. To do this, VicRoads will trial...
Permeable Pavement

Field trial of permeable paving in real life loading conditions (with comprehensive instrumentation testing). The...
Protectiflex Pumped & Composite Blast Mitigation Project

Production of a blast and ballistic mitigating cementitious building product comprised of TDP aggregate and...
High Shear Mobile Crumb Rubber Mixer

Purchase of a mobile plant that can mix crumb rubber asphalt for spray seal projects that cannot be feasibly serviced...
Rubber Plastic Composite [Polymeric Powders]

High-tech manufacturing jobs turn recycled tyres into world competitive products Geelong based joint high-tech...
Crumb rubber asphalt binder characterisation and specification for road pavement applications

This project provides a basis to standardise testing and classification for crumb rubber modified binders in a way that...
Dense Grade Crumb Rubber Asphalt Trial – City of Mitcham

The project will demonstrate the positive effects crumb rubber from tyres will have on the flexibility, durability and...
Equine Air Pakenham Racing Club Project

The project will provide a new benchmark for an engineered free-draining racetrack for the thoroughbred racing industry...
Equine Air [Flexiroc]

Galloping to greater use of recycled rubber Construction products company, Flexiroc Australia has developed an...
Production of tyre crumb derived composite material

This project is a further iteration of the R&D project completed in the 2016/17 financial year. Based upon the...
Physical properties of tyre walls in residential housing construction

Physical properties of tyre walls in residential housing construction. The aim of the project is to develop resources...
Innovative design of lightweight and structurally efficient composites incorporating crumb rubber

Upon the establishment of the structure-property relationships of the composites, the team will work with industry...
Transfer of crumb rubber modified asphalt and sealing technology to Queensland & WA

International studies have shown that gap graded asphalt with crumb rubber modified binders can provide improved...
Transfer of crumb rubber modified asphalt and sealing technology to QLD and WA

Where the rubber not only hits, but is in, the roads With Australia generating more than 56 million end-of-life tyres...
Development of reinforced concrete – recycled tyre bale sandwich structural wall system

This project will study the structural behaviour of precast reinforced concrete (RC)–used tyres bale sandwich wall...
Assessment of liquid fuel chemicals and porous material production from end of life tyres

Conversion of waste material into fuels and useful chemicals is a sustainable approach to address issues related to the...
Reinforced Crumb Rubber in Residential Construction

Building houses could drive major tyre recycling TSA has been working with The University of South Australia on a...
Reinforced crumbed rubber concrete for residential construction

To demonstrate that reinforced crumb rubber concrete is an economically viable and sustainable alternative to...
Retaining Walls [Ecoflex]

Sustainable modern solutions for age-old engineering tasks Retaining walls have been around since the most ancient of...
Sports Field Case Study

Tyres become Sports Surfaces For Man and Beast The casual observer could be forgiven for thinking that the only likely...
Tyre crumb derived Polymeric Powder / Polyolefin composite material piping

Tyre crumb derived Polymeric Powder/Polyolefin composite material piping: This project developed and tested a new...
A green lightweight composite panel system using recycled tyres

This project looks at the use of tyres as a low-density aggregate in lightweight concrete sandwich panels for...
Recycled tyre in permeable pavement applications

Investigate the suitability of using a 60% waste tyre mix in permeable pavement applications as a new storm-water...
Developing Graphene supercomposite using end-of-life tyres

Developing Graphene Integrated Super-composite materials using end-of-life tyres. This project is looking at the...
Explore and evaluate local market development opportunities for crumb rubber asphalt in Australian roads

This project focused on the development of an evidence-based strategy to revise current VicRoads asphalt specifications...
Transfer of crumb rubber modified asphalt and sealing technology to Queensland

This project focused on the transfer of proven crumb rubber modified surfacing technologies to Queensland in order to...
Performance of rubber-based absorbing layer (REAL) for railroad stability

This project examines the performance of a rubber-based energy absorbing layer (REAL) as a capping stratum (beneath the...
Tyre Aggregate Supplementary Material in Pavement Sub-bases

An applied research project undertaken with VicRoads and Sustainability Victoria to characterise and assess the...

Current Project > Road

Transfer of crumb rubber modified asphalt and sealing technology to Queensland & WA

1 January 2017

Transfer of crumb rubber modified asphalt and sealing technology to Queensland & WA

International studies have shown that gap graded asphalt with crumb rubber modified binders can provide improved resistance to crack reflection compared to conventional asphalt. These mixes are therefore commonly used in the USA when rehabilitating/overlaying existing pavements (especially concrete pavements) where improved resistance to crack reflection is required. It is envisaged that similar applications will apply in Australia.

However, currently there are no specifications available in Queensland and Western Australia for the use of crumb rubber modified binders in gap graded asphalt. As such, road owners cannot readily make use of the benefits provided by crumb rubber in rehabilitation treatments (such as asphalt overlays). The development of a technical specification for crumb rubber modified gap graded asphalt will therefore address this gap. This will overcome a significant barrier to its use in this application.

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