Sealants & Pavement Adhesives: pavement life-cycle lessons for asset managers
Reviewed by Joe Ashwell
First reported on Roads & Infrastructure (AU)
30 Second Briefing
Sealants & Pavement Adhesives is continuing to anchor its business around two long-standing Crafco product lines, supplying hot-applied crack sealants and joint sealants that many Australian road agencies have used for decades in sprayed seals and asphalt pavements. The company’s model is to keep the formulation and range stable while focusing on supply reliability, technical support and correct installation practice for longitudinal and transverse cracking. For asset managers, the message is that consistent materials plus workmanship remain central to extending pavement life and deferring heavy rehabilitation.
Technical Brief
- Wider implication: consistent, well-understood sealant systems simplify specification, contractor training and safety documentation across road authorities.
Our Take
Within the 424 Infrastructure stories in our database, relatively few product-focused pieces for Australia drill into lifecycle performance of sealants, so this coverage of Crafco hints at growing scrutiny of whole-of-life pavement maintenance strategies rather than just initial construction quality.
Safety-tagged infrastructure items in our database increasingly link surface condition to crash risk, which suggests that specifying higher-performing sealants and pavement adhesives in Australia is likely to be framed not only as an asset-preservation choice but as a road safety intervention for network operators.
Product-tagged articles with no listed commodities, like this one on Crafco, tend to concentrate on consumables and maintenance systems, signalling that suppliers of pavement adhesives can influence project outcomes across multiple Australian road projects without being tied to a single flagship job.
Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.
