Across Europe and the UK, asphalt producers and contractors are chasing the same target: push recycled asphalt pavement (RAP) higher without pushing costs through the roof. The fastest wins are usually hiding in plain sight—inside the RAP pile. That’s where the ALLU Asphalt Screening Bucket earns its keep: mounted on the excavator or loader you already own, it breaks up bitumen lumps, screens to spec, and sends clean, ready-to-use material straight back to production— without the set-up, footprint, or fuel burn of mobilising another crusher.
“It’s a smarter, more profitable way to work, and we’re proud to help drive this transformation across the industry.” — Peter Grönholm, CEO, ALLU Finland Oy.
At Asfalttikallio’s flagship plant in Ylöjärvi, Finland, recycled content typically runs 30–60% in new mixes. Their ALLU solution handles both milled asphalt (stone <16 mm) and blocky bitumen (up to 50 mm), reliably delivering a 25–35 mm fraction. The change isn’t just smoother material flow—it’s measurable money: processing costs dropped from about €3/ton to roughly €1/ton, while screened material is fed directly to production rather than double-handled around the yard.
In the UK, MRD Plant has built a thriving business around this same principle, but with a twist that fits typical British sites and job sizes. Their day-to-day material is 0–25 mm road planings, where aggregate is <14 mm - so the bucket’s TS Axe blades aren’t “crushing stone,” they’re de-lumping the bitumen and cleaning the fraction.
MRD’s Managing Director, Tom Chapman, puts it plainly: an ALLU on the front of a 35-tonne excavator “is so much more efficient, productive and less expensive than bringing a mobile crushing plant on to the work site… we’re literally halving our fuel costs.”
The MRD method is deliberately pragmatic. On planings, their ALLU DHA 4-17 with TS16 blades will process around 80% of the pile quickly and to spec. The stubborn ~20% ultra-hard lumps still go to a standby impact crusher. This hybrid method keeps total cost per tonne down and the program resilient: when one machine is down, the other keeps the project moving. Because stockpiles can cure hard, the serrated cutting edge can dig into compacted planings.
Performance is steady and bankable. MRD bids a modest 500 t per day yet typically achieves 700–800 t/day in regular 7–8-hour shifts.
Their record is 1,450 t per day on planings. Every 10,000 t they run through the bucket instead of a crusher saves about £4,800 in fuel, before you consider the extra operator and set-up time, they avoid by not mobilising a separate unit.
This is the pattern we see again and again. For plants like Asfalttikallio’s, the bucket becomes a quality-control workhorse that feeds production with the right fraction while stripping out oversize. For contractors like MRD, it’s the first-pass processor that transforms most of the pile at low cost and low fuss—while a crusher remains on call for the last 20%. Either way, the result is the same: less double-handling, fewer truck moves, less idling, and a lower cost per tonne for recycled feed. And because the ALLU mounts on your existing carrier with quick two-bolt Variable Drum locks and a reinforced, serviceable frame, you get all of that without adding a whole new machine to babysit.
If your goal is to raise RAP content and protect margins, start where the payback is fastest: crush the lumps, keep the value, and let the ALLU bucket turn your carrier into the small, smart processing plant you need—right where the material sits.