Practically every industry or business segment in this nation is represented by a local, regional, or national trade group.  Ours is no exception.  PTG Enterprises, Inc. — MYpavementGUY.com — belongs to the Asphalt Institute (AI), a trade association founded in 1919.  Our membership in AI with petroleum asphalt producers, manufacturers, and affiliated businesses, helps us keep current on the engineering, research, and educational aspects of liquid asphalt use.  In fact, AI’s members represent 90 percent of the liquid asphalt produced in North America.

This would simply be interesting information of questionable relevance for the average client were it not for the fact that our membership in AI yields specific benefits to the clients of MYpavementGUY.com.  Foremost among these benefits are the technical support and environmental oversight that AI offers to its members.  Through various committees and partnerships, the Asphalt Institute serves its members as a center of excellence for health, safety, and environmental matters — topics that, like us, our clients care about.  AI promotes petroleum asphalt as a safe and environmentally friendly construction material for highways, streets, and roofing systems through a program of scientific research and technological developments.  AI’s network of regional engineers throughout the U.S. and Canada provides technical support to member companies and users, and so we can tap fast and accurate information if we have questions about a particular project.

A thoroughly professional organization such as ours is happy to be affiliated with a trade group with the size and scope of AI, and we hope our clients understand how beneficial such an affiliation is when they entrust their projects to us.