Right equipment for infrastructure

 THE head of an American consortium who was in the country recently to market construction machineries and heavy equipment said it is important for the government to use reliable products in building infrastructure.

Scott Reynolds, president of Asphalt Recycling and Stabilization (ARS) Companies, was hosted by Hastings Deering, licenced distributor of Caterpillar machineries and heavy equipment.

Established in 1985 and headquartered in Denver in Colorado, USA, ARS companies is a private consortium consisting of six separate business lines, which are soils and recycling services, hydro environmental services, sustainable network services, land development services, sand and gravel services and Performance Dynamics International.

“We are diversified so that if one company does not do well, the other does, so that we stay successful …  it is a kind of the American way,” Reynolds said.

The company had experienced in building massive infrastructure such as railways, intercontinental highways, airports and seaports and has in the last six years been actively promoting the Caterpillar brand.

Reynolds, who experienced the bad road conditions in Lae, said quality infrastructure was important, which will compliment investment, business and the economy.

He said he had travelled the world over and saw some of the worst road conditions being improved by governments who embraced quality materials, equipment and the best developers.

“I would say, we need to get the government to accept and embrace practices which are proven worldwide to improve infrastructure.

“Education would be my recommendation — to educate contractors, government officials and everybody, it is worth it to get good products to build better roads,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds recommended for the Department of Works and civil works contractors to use the new Cat-RM500 on the market, which can dig up road surface and mix with other composition and will cut down on time, money and resources.