Asphalt Maintenance Systems

Asphalt Maintenance Systems, known as AMS, is a pavement maintenance, repair and paving company with its corporate office in South Beloit, Illinois and a Southeast district office in Lake Placid, Florida. AMS belongs to Synergy Pavement Group and describes its operations as nationwide, while its local work centers on southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois, including Rockford, Roscoe, Rockton, New Milford, Beloit, Janesville, Monroe and the rest of Rock County.

Much of the company's work involves commercial parking lots. For new lots, AMS works from design and layout through the final stripe, covering subgrade evaluation and installation, grading, and drainage and storm-water control. Repaving and overlays, pavement removal and disposal, asphalt cutouts, core-outs, apron repair and replacement, and manhole repairs are also part of its paving and repair work.

Maintenance services include crack filling and sealing, pothole repair and patching, infrared patching, sealcoating, milling and edge milling, and line striping. The company also offers concrete work and snow and ice management. Its website explains that most pavement failures begin when water reaches the base or the ground shifts, and that sun oxidation dries the surface and leads to cracking, so its maintenance program aims to deal with those problems before full replacement is needed.

The estimating process starts with a site evaluation, after which the customer receives an itemized proposal with area maps and CAD-style drawings within 24 hours. A designated specialist is assigned to each project, the property is documented before work begins, and AMS's own crews perform the work. The company offers a three-year written warranty.