Coloured and Printed Asphalt

Pure Asphalt have won an Innovation Award for the application of coloured asphalt.

Colourful, safe, hardwearing

Mastic asphalt now brings a whole new palette of possibilities to road construction and architectural design. The new coloured mastic asphalt, produced with Shell Bitumen's clear pigmentable binder, Shell Mexphalte C, allows you to create imaginatively coloured surfaces.

Easy to work, versatile to use

The proven properties of mastic asphalt for flooring and pavements make it the winning choice indoors and out.

Waterproof and seamless, it's durable enough for heavy industrial use and resistant to dust, cracks and weed growth.

Inspire your imagination

Shell Mexphalte C, with just small amounts of pigment added, puts a huge array of colours and shades at your fingertips, to match your most creative ideas.

With all the established benefits of conventional asphalt, Shell Mexphalte C offers limitless design freedom to architects, landscape designers, civil engineers and town planners.

Consider the Possibilities

With coloured mastic asphalt, produced with Shell Mexphalte C, you can highlight areas with bold colours or blend them harmoniously into any environment.

Just think about what you can do:

• Mark out footpaths and bicycle lanes
• Brighten parks, squares, play areas, sports grounds
• Highlight roundabouts and bus-stops
• Enhance entrances to historic and heritage sites

Simply safer on the road

Coloured mastic asphalt promotes new standards of safety around critical places like schools and pedestrian areas.

By adding white pigments and light coloured minerals, really bright asphalt surfaces can be created to improve visibility in tunnels and underpasses, which can make driving safer and reduce the amount of interior lighting required.

Ready wherever you need it

Mastic asphalt is easily installed by skilled tradesmen and, no heavy equipment is used, you can lay it almost anywhere. Just a few hours later, the surface is ready to use, unlike other materials and processes.

Mastic asphalt can be supplied hot, ready to lay, or in block form for re-melting on site, so there are no problems with timing or distance for any project. It has inherent sustainability too, and can be removed and recycled as necessary.