Runways are Tested with the Midwest Samitron

Midwest offers these valuable Fines Preservation™ services:

• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  Captures maintenance data along with performance data to set a benchmark against which future results will be compared
• Runway Structure Review
  Spatially characterizes how the strength of your runway compares to the requirements for proper shape, drainage, sufficient strength and minimum gravel properties
• Proactive and Ongoing Quality Control and Preventive Maintenance
  During installation and the following 48 hours, Midwest uses its Samitron measuring device to assure uniform strength gain across a runway and make installation adjustments where anomalies exist. A minimum of 30 randomly-spaced measurements are made twice during the quality control period.

Customizing a program specifically for you
A Midwest Gravel Runway Program is based on your runway, not a generic runway. We take a sample of surface materials from your runway, and then we do our work in the lab, calculating the minimum CBR necessary to achieve safe operation. Based on the results we make a specific recommendation for your runway along with detailed application guidelines from surface preparation to maintenance and everything in-between.

Getting Precise Measurements – Midwest’s Samitron®
A non-invasive rapid way to index surface CBR, the Samitron is a precise tool that quickly measures lift stiffness and modulus on surfaces. Simply put, it measures quality of product application and monitors the health of your runway between scheduled maintenance appointments so you will know the real-time effects of weather and traffic on your runways and be able to adjust scheduled maintenance accordingly.

Special Delivery – Midwest’s E-Sprayer™ System
Midwest's E-Sprayer is specifically designed for the application of Midwest products. Portable, versatile and compact, the E-Sprayer can be mounted on any light-duty truck from an F-150 flatbed one-ton trailer to a military humvee. Powered by a 4.7-hp Diesel /JP8 fuel electric start engine and Gorman-Rupp pump, the E-Sprayer requires only one person to operate and facilitates universal application with an 8-foot spray bar. Flow is easily controlled with the throttle or motorized regulator.

It’s easy to be green
As tough as Midwest’s products are at preventing and controlling dust, they have been certified safe for human, animal and plant life by the EPA’s Environmental Technology Verification Program and approved by Boeing Document D6-17487, the highest standard in the aviation industry.

With chemists in our lab and experts on our customers’ worksites, Midwest has the home-grown ability to manufacture products that will not harm the environment and, in many instances, will help it. Our chemists think green from source materials to formulation and from production to application.

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