MERICRUSHER PROJECT – TENETINKUJA, SOTKAMO – FINLAND
On August 21st, 2023 we stabilized part of the Tenetinkuja road surface using Road//Stabilizr and Dust/Blokr Sugar Blend. This road is a typical Finnish unpaved countryside road with issues such as potholes, ruttings, and becoming softer with excessive rains. Despite the shallow clay content, the lane treated only with Road//Stabilizr performs very well. The other lane where both products were used, is even in better condition. This is proof of good results when using both products together for stabilizing purposes or dust suppression projects in Europe.
The technical pdf – data sheet for this project in English can be downloaded through this link. This file includes the soil gradation (particle size analysis), stabilization depth, and the amount of products used for this project.
Have a look at all the details and the project video below.
If you prefer to watch the full video, with more details regarding the machines and equipment made by Suokone Oy, you can use this link to YouTube.
Project Check-up
Not only that, we provide our customers with on-site technical experts to ensure project durability. We do project follow-ups after a couple of weeks, to see how the road is performing. When customers require data on road strength or dust particle capture rate, we can provide these tests during the road check-up. We provide the highest dust suppression product in Europe.
We returned about 22 days after the project to see how the surface performs after regular rains. As a comparison we used the rest of the road, which was only crushed and compacted using the same equipment but without any products.
The following footage is taken on the untreated section of the road:
The road surface of the untreated section of this road looks visually very good, but when you start to scratch the surface, you can easily erase any stones, gravel, and sand.
The following footage is taken on the treated section where the lane was stabilized only using Road//Stabilizr:
Despite the low clay content the road material on this part of the road treated only with Road//Stabilizr is very well compacted and bound together and it is not easy to erase any of the material.
The following material is from the treated section where both products were used to stabilize the road surface:
The surface treated with both Dust/Blokr SB and Road//Stabilizr is well compacted and the road aggregate is well bound together. Trying to scratch the surface without luck. The dark brown color is due to the sugars in Dust/Blokr SB.
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The surface was continuously losing much of its material as the road was in bad shape. Leaving gravel and stones on the top was forming potholes every couple of meters. We prepared our liquid mixture consisting of Dust/Blokr Sugar Blend and water in the morning. As our construction project location was a few kilometers by car, we decided to pour the liquid at our HQ and drive a water truck to the project location.
It was important to provide safety to road users as well as to the machine operators. After barriers were put into place, we started to pour an additional gravel mixture evenly on the surface, properly mixing it with the previous soil. Later, it was time to spray Dust/Blokr Sugar Blend liquid mixture. The application ratio was 500ml per square meter of DBSB and diluted with 2-3L(/m2) of water.
We let the liquid penetrate the soil. Before the compaction could take place, we mixed it with the soil in a few passes. At the end of compaction, we added another 100ml of DBSB per m2 to seal the surface and let it dry before opening the road to the traffic.
