Sports Advancement And Research Co Ltd, is based in Nottingham UK, and holds the patent on a generic technology invented in 1995. This technology incorporates a PMB bitumen, graded rubber crumb and aggregates, the viscous, elastic, plastic nature of the material allows it to be designed to achieve different performance characteristics. This ability results in many different product uses, i.e. school playground surfacing to noise absorption barriers.

The cost of Surflex is only slightly above the cost of traditional inherit asphalt's, and a fraction of the costs of comparable resin bound products. Development work has been carried out by the University of Nottingham,Tilcon, and Shell Bitumen. SARCO's role is to disseminate the information and product manufacturing details to interested companies by way of geographical areas, giving those companies exclusivity within their areas for which a royalty is paid on each tonne of material produced. The preferred companies are Asphalt batching plants with marketing expertise, no capital cost are required or modifications to the plants, laying of the material is by traditional methods.either by hand or machine.

Sarco Ltd
Grantham Lincolnshire
United Kingdom