1955 - Nesbitt Contracting Celebrates 60 Years - 2015
Arizona Pavement
Profiling
A
third Nesbitt entity, Arizona
Pavement Profiling, Inc., was launched
in 1981, shortly after the acquisition of the
company's first milling machine. Asphalt
milling was then a new process that was
just being adopted around the country.
Nesbitt foresaw milling technology as the
answer to a number of challenges facing a
growing region to build, repair, and
maintain an increasingly heavy traffic load
on municipal streets, highways, airports,
and other applications. They were one of
the first companies in the industry to
recognize the value of recycled asphalt
pavement (RAP) and its potential to save
time and money in road building and
repair.
Initially, there were challenges with
having public engineers, cities, and
competitors accept this new technique.
With time, asphalt recycling became more
universally accepted. Scottsdale was one
of the first municipalities to embrace the
new technology and contracted with
Nesbitt and Arizona Pavement Profiling to
perform the work on its streets. “Nesbitt
is a pioneer in the industry,” Jerry Jones,
former Arizona manager of Crist
Machinery, said in 1990. “There are always
a few who will try innovations and are
always a step ahead of the game.”
Recycling asphalt falls into this
category. Arizona Pavement Profiling has
been combining 50 percent recycled
asphalt with virgin materials since the early
1980s. “We’v