From city streets to interstate highways, Microsurfacing is one of the most advanced pavement maintenance
treatments available today. Microsurfacing is a polymer modified cold-mix paving system which incorporates
carefully selected materials, detailed design perimeters, advanced technical specifications and proven field
practices to remedy a broad range of problems on today's streets, highways and airfields.
While conventional slurry seal is used around the world as an economical treatment for sealing and
extending the service life of both urban and rural roads, Microsurfacing has many added capabilities which allow its use on a
much wider range of problems and traffic situations. The addition of the polymer, along with the quick setting
characteristics of emulsion, allows Microsurfacing to be applied in level wheel ruts. With a life expectancy
usually exceeding seven years, Microsurfacing has long been recognized as one of the most cost-effective ways to
treat a variety of road surface problems.
Some other notable characteristics of Microsurfacing are:
Quick traffic, high skid resistance, uniform black color, surface restoration, and service life to high
speed, heavy-traffic roadways
A thin restorative surface course for urban arterials and heavy traffice intersections which will not require
resetting of utilities or milling of curb lines
A stable surface resistant to rutting and shoving in summer and to cracking in winter
Moderate profile correction and surface rutfilling capabilities
Skid resistant, high seal surface for bridge decking with minimum added weight
