Ferro Asphalt

Ferro Asphalt is the asphalt production and paving operation of PT Ferro Construction Co., an Illinois contractor with long ties to Will County. Peter Ferro Sr. and his brother Tony Ferro started PT Ferro in 1964 as a utility contractor whose early customers included Illinois Bell Telephone. The company moved into highway and civil roadwork and added asphalt paving in the 1990s. A third generation now owns it, and Vince Ferro serves as president of Ferro Asphalt.

The asphalt plant is a Gencor 600 UltraPlant rated at 600 tons per hour, with 2,000 tons of silo storage. It supplies PT Ferro's own projects and also sells mix to outside buyers. Ferro Asphalt holds multiple mix designs approved by the Illinois Department of Transportation; its approved designs include slag and polymer-modified mixes as well as binder and base course mixes with high RAP content, and reclaimed asphalt pavement is used in several of them. Quality control staff work from an on-site lab, testing plant materials and running density and smoothness checks in the field. Clean concrete and asphalt may be accepted for dumping, depending on availability.

Paving crews use the company's own semi trucks, rollers and pavers and take on work from parking lots up to highway resurfacing. PT Ferro is an IDOT-prequalified general contractor, and its broader capabilities include electrical work, demolition, horizontal directional boring, underground utilities, highway and railroad structures, landscaping, earthwork, aggregate bases, concrete construction and cold milling.

The company works for IDOT, local municipalities, private developers and businesses, and it says it has worked on almost all of Will County's main roads as well as streets in neighboring towns. Customers quoted on its website include the University of St. Francis and Alston Construction.