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Endangered Honey Bees Safely Relocated from EZ Street bunker!

Much to our team’s surprise, hundreds of honeybees recently set up camp at Duval Asphalt’s Philips Highway plant. The bees built a hive under a tarp covering our EZ Street Cold Mix pile! We recognize that honeybees are an important part of our ecosystem, so we immediately sought to have them safely moved! Duval Asphalt Production Manager, TJ Young, reached out to local beekeeper Scott Greenwald for help.

2020 Careathon: Thank you for your generosity

$203,000 was raised for local pediatric cancer families, despite concerns surrounding COVID-19 and a drastically different format. With the partnership of all seven Cox Media Group radio stations in Jacksonville, and a week-long event, NE Florida stepped up in a huge way! Thank you Cox Media and all of the generous listeners and sponsors!Duval Asphalt is proud to partner with the Child Cancer Fund for this and other events throughout the year. To learn more about the Child Cancer Fund, visit www.ChildCancerFund.org DONATE: Give to the Child Cancer Fund of NE Florida. The Child Cancer Fund will use 100% of all proceeds from Careathon for financial assistance, mortgage payments, family support group events, tutoring and more. Each year, approximately 115 local families receive a pediatric cancer diagnosis in the NE Florida area. Thanks to the generosity of many in our community, these families will be facing the journey ahead with support and care from untold numbers of donors in our community.

Green Cove Springs, FL Asphalt Plant – NOW OPEN!

We are excited to announce that our Green Cove Springs asphalt plant is officially open for business!

Congressman John Rutherford Tours Duval Asphalt’s Production Facility

Our team joined the Asphalt Testing Solutions & Engineering (ATS) team in hosting Congressman John Rutherford, District Director Chris Miller and Asphalt Pavement Alliance‘s (APA) Buzz Powel and Brittyn Heisler at our Philips Highway location. The group toured our plant to learn about plant operations, focusing on the updated and technologies implemented to streamline operations for efficiency and lowering our carbon footprint during production. The group also toured the ATS labs for a behind the scenes look at an asphalt pavement’s life cycle from initial design to its materials’ properties to specification verification and future performance.

Duval Asphalt Extends Paving Donation to Pine Castle

Pine Castle, one of Northeast Florida’s leading agencies that serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DDs) was in a need of new asphalt throughout its 10-acre campus. Duval Asphalt is proud to support the communities in which we all live and work and is honored to provide Pine Castle with new pavement providing a safer surface and smoother ride for staff, guests, and participants.

Employee Training with Dr. Vince Hafeli, DEP and Crestcom

Duval Asphalt and Asphalt Testing Solutions & Engineering (ATS) are committed to providing avenues for continued growth for our team members! The monthly trainings at Duval Asphalt and ATS continue, and this month the teams traveled off site – one group attended a discussion on mental health awareness with Dr. Vince Hafeli, then completed a training exercise with the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) learning to minimize environmental impacts on our community when working out on our job sites.