Silo and equipment service for asphalt plants
Asphalt storage silos, drag conveyors, and handling equipment build up like everything else in this industry: a little more every shift until flow chokes. We remove buildup and keep asphalt plants moving.
Services built for this industry
Asphalt silo cleaning
SiloMD cleans asphalt storage silos with confined-space certified crews, restoring capacity and consistent discharge to trucks below.
Plant equipment buildup removal
Hoppers, chutes, bins, and transfer points accumulate hardened material that narrows throughput. Crews chip equipment back to steel.
Seasonal scheduling
Paving season leaves no room for downtime. We schedule heavy cleaning in your off-season and maintenance windows.
One vendor across divisions
Producers running asphalt alongside ready mix consolidate silo, drum, and equipment service under one accountable schedule.
Where asphalt production slows down
Hardened buildup coats drum flights, mixer paddles, and transfer points until the plant fights its own equipment on every ton. Our technicians remove it with documented procedures, full PPE, and the training this work demands.
Work is scheduled around your production calendar, so the plant gives up a planned window instead of an unplanned outage.
Asphalt buildup compounds between seasons. Drums, pugmills, and silos cleaned in the off-season start the paving year at full capacity, and the work never competes with production days.
Asphalt plant cleaning built for extreme duty
Express Chipping provides asphalt plant cleaning services and hardened material buildup removal for hot mix facilities, batch plants, drum mix plants, and aggregate operations. Plants run under extreme heat and constant material movement; hardened asphalt, compacted aggregate, and concrete residue collect around hoppers, conveyors, drums, transfer points, and loadout zones until access disappears. Our crews remove what routine cleaning cannot, and SiloMD handles the storage silos under certified confined-space entry.
When a plant needs professional removal
Restricted access
Hardened material covering surfaces, mounting points, and access panels that maintenance needs to reach.
Buried conveyors
Spillage compacted under and around belts, hiding rollers, bearings, guards, and structural supports.
Loadout accumulation
Heavy buildup around silo gates, loading zones, and support columns in the plant's busiest traffic.
Stalled inspections
Welds, foundations, and connections that cannot be evaluated until the layer over them comes off.
Beyond routine cleaning
Buildup hardened past what plant crews can remove with everyday methods and tools.
Shutdown backlog
Accumulation stacking up ahead of a planned outage, threatening a packed maintenance window.
Four fronts against hardened buildup
Batch Plant Buildup Removal
Weigh hoppers, pugmills, transfer equipment, and loading systems cleared so batch plants keep their material handling precise. Asphalt batch plant cleaning restores inspection access and shortens every future cleanup.
Drum Mix Plant Support
Continuous plants collect residue around dryer drums, burner areas, and transfer zones. Drum mix plant maintenance support makes critical equipment easier to access, inspect, and repair, not just better looking.
Silo & Loadout Area Cleanup
Truck loading, spills, and residue pile accumulation onto gates, columns, and foundations. Loadout area cleaning keeps high-traffic zones manageable, with asphalt silo cleaning handled by certified SiloMD crews.
Conveyor & Transfer Point Cleaning
Compacted spillage buries rollers, bearings, motors, and supports. Removal prepares conveyor systems for belt inspections, roller replacement, alignment, and drive maintenance on shutdown schedules.
Shutdowns, prevention, and safer maintenance
Asphalt plant shutdowns are short and packed, so buildup removal has to move first: we coordinate scope, priority areas, lockout and isolation protocols, and deadlines with plant leadership so other contractors reach clean equipment without delay. Between outages, recurring preventive cleaning controls accumulation by production volume and season, keeping every future shutdown smaller. Each project starts with a job hazard review, PPE requirements, work zone controls, and fall protection planning under our published safety program. What the plant gets back is more than clean steel: exposed surfaces reveal wear, corrosion, cracking, damaged welds, and components nearing replacement, so maintenance planning runs on evidence instead of surprises. Multi-plant operators run one coordinated program across asphalt and aggregate locations with centralized scheduling and per-site documentation.
Why asphalt plants choose Express Chipping
Asphalt plants run hot, fast, and seasonal, which makes planned maintenance windows precious. Express Chipping crews mobilize with full logistical support, work your windows, and leave equipment production-ready. See our SiloMD silo cleaning process or request a plant walk-through.
Asphalt plant questions
Yes. SiloMD services asphalt plant silos including hot storage and aggregate vessels, restoring flow and live capacity with confined-space certified crews.
Off-season and planned maintenance windows are ideal, but crews also work around production schedules during the paving season when buildup cannot wait.
Slower discharge, bridging, ratholing, inconsistent flow to the drum, and shrinking usable capacity all point to buildup that has reached the cost stage.
Yes. SiloMD removes buildup without cutting into the vessel. The method is controlled removal, not demolition.
Yes. Mobile crews dispatch to asphalt plants in 49 states on the same national network that serves ready mix producers.
Express Chipping's SiloMD division services asphalt plant silos in 49 states, including hot storage and aggregate vessels. The company has served producers since 1999.
Cost depends on vessel size, material, and buildup depth. SiloMD inspects and quotes each silo before work starts, so the plant approves a fixed scope up front.
Top-down cleaning with confined-space certified crews. SiloMD removes buildup with specialized equipment, which takes the highest-risk element out of the job.
Yes. Mobile crews mobilize to portable and temporary plant sites with equipment, power, and consumables on board, then follow the plant when it relocates.
Call (562) 789-8058 or send a service request through chippingconcrete.com. A specialist responds within one business day and schedules the closest available crew.
Yes. We support both batch asphalt plants and drum mix facilities. Scope depends on the material, equipment, access, and safety requirements, reviewed before work begins.
Hardened asphalt residue, compacted aggregate, concrete buildup, and cementitious material on approved equipment and areas. The material is evaluated before the project starts.
Yes. We coordinate scope, priority areas, isolation protocols, and deadlines with plant leadership so removal finishes ahead of the trades that need the access.
Silo interiors are handled by SiloMD crews under certified confined-space entry. Asphalt storage tanks and other internal areas require a site-specific review of access, material, temperature, ventilation, and safety procedures before any work is approved.
Talk to a specialist about asphalt plants
Call (562) 789-8058 or send a request and a specialist responds within one business day.
Plants that book off-season cleaning before March lock crew availability ahead of the rush. One scheduled window covers drums, silos, and plant equipment together.
Eight buildup patterns. One fix.
Funneling, ratholing, doming, bridging, and caking steal live storage. The animation shows each pattern and the properly maintained silo they all become.
SiloMD restores silo capacity with certified confined-space crews under a written permit program. See the SiloMD program →