HMS offers a choice of colours and aggregates designed for use in many situations where there is a requirement to segregate road users, parking or any other type of traffic, such as pedestrians or cyclists.

  • Roads
  • Bus lanes
  • Cycle paths
  • Car park demarcation

Coloured surfacing with high friction

These products are made from calcined bauxite, which is naturally grey or buff, with coloured pigments added either before or during the installation process. It is predominantly used where the highest PSV is the primary design consideration and the colour is secondary, such as applications requiring the use of red high friction surfacing on the approach to a pelican or zebra crossing.

Coloured high friction surfacing is available from HMS with certification for any class of highway in the UK under the BBA (British Board of Agrément) standard. HMS is also a BBA ‘Approved Installer’ (Installer Number 5020). The performance of any surfacing product is enhanced when a coloured resin binder is used.

Coloured surfacing

This type of surfacing outperforms ‘Coloured High Friction Surfacing’ in terms of colour retention, and uses high PSV naturally occurring coloured aggregates. These systems are the preferred choice where colour is the prime consideration and PSV is secondary.

As well as minimising colour fading, the special texture of these resin systems means their SRV skid resistance is typically much higher than the SRV of normal asphalts and other bituminous surfacing which use natural coloured aggregates.