Fairfield County Business Journal New road patch is eco-friendly
New road patch is eco-friendly
When rough roads go from metaphorical, as with the economy, to real, as on Main Street, Glenn and Melanie Shapiro of Danbury have found their road-patching compound is in demand.
Eco-friendly GreenPatch consists of biodegradable, organic and renewable plant-based solvents.
“We developed GreenPatch in response to pressures from mainly government agencies as well as state agencies to find a way to get rid of the toxins in traditional cold patch,” Melanie said.
Glenn Shapiro, still an executive at RCA Asphalt in Mount Vernon, N.Y., worked with the company as it co-developed GreenPatch with Cofire Industries Inc. in Flushing, N.Y.
The product underwent an 18-month research-and-testing process.
Several Fairfield County municipalities, including Ridgefield, Stamford and Greenwich, as well as public agencies, private sector utility, road construction and maintenance companies are using the product, Glenn said.
“We use it in all of the local municipalities,” said Jim Statini, supervisor of road maintenance for Westchester County in New York. “It’s environmentally friendly and seems to form just as well as previous cold patch we’ve used. It’s used during the colder weather when the asphalt plants close for the season.”
On pricing, “It is relatively close to existing cold mix,” he said. “The benefit is strictly from a green point of view.”
The solvent is sold in 40-80 pound bags by the ton; pricing varies based on the size of the town or project.
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