Press Releases & Awards

Mason City, IA JANUARY 3 2006 –The National Asphalt Paving Association (NAPA) announced that Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City, Iowa, has been named a finalist in its 2005 Brochure Award competition. The company received its recognition on January 24, 2006, at the Association’s 51^st Annual Convention, “Ride the Pavement, “ Hollywood, Fla.

The award recognizes outstanding company brochures published to promote the hot-mix asphalt (HMA) industry.

The award-winning entry is a monthly series of single sheet, 8 ½ x 11-inch mailers designed for an audience that includes state, county and city engineers, architects, general contractors, and other potential customers. Each mailer focuses on a different company project or service, offering a brief explanation of how Heartland Asphalt met the challenges of the project. It shows a large photo of the project and includes a quote from the customer. The mailer also features a different “Did You Know” pullout each month to explain the benefit of HMA.

The National Asphalt Pavement Association is the only association that exclusively represents the interests of the hot-mix asphalt producer/contractor on the national level with Congress, government agencies, and other national trade and business organizations. NAPA supports an active research program designed to improve the quality of HMA pavements and paving techniques use in the construction of roads, streets, highways, parking lots, airports, and environmental and recreational facilities. The association provides technical educational, and marketing materials and information to its members, as well as product information to users and specifiers of paving materials. The association, whose members number more than 1,100 companies, was founded in 1955.

Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City is a full service asphalt paving company which serves the North Iowa area. Since 1991, Heartland Asphalt has prided itself in top quality work for its customers and employment enrichment, while maintaining a strong belief in giving back to the communities it services.

Mason City, IA—March 8, 2006 –The National Asphalt Paving Association (NAPA) announced that Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City, Iowa, has won a 2005 Quality in Construction Award for Excellence in construction of an asphalt pavement. The company received its award at a special ceremony at the association’s 51^st Annual Convention, “Ride the Pavement,” in Hollywood, Florida.

The Quality in Construction Awards recognize hot-mix asphalt (HMA) pavements of excellence. “NAPA selects the recipients of its paving awards using a known set of standards that have been shown to give a good result, “ commented Richard F. Moore, Jr. 2005 Chairman of the NAPA Board of Directors. “The award demonstrates the high quality of work that the HMA industry is achieving.”

The company won an award for the rehabilitation of Runway 17-35 at Mason City Municipal Airport. Working on a very tight time schedule, Heartland Asphalt, Inc. completely reconstructed the southern 700 feet of the main runway where it intersected with another runway and then milled and overlaid the remainder of the main runway. The company met the Federal Aviation Administration’s demanding specifications and produced a smooth runway that drew favorable comments from pilots, passengers and airport managers.

Heartland Asphalt, Inc. won an award for work done on County Road B-20 in Cerro Gordo County. B-20, a major route between the Interstate 35 and several manufacturing and industrial facilities, required widening and the installation of turn lanes at major intersections. The company spot milled and crack and seated the badly deteriorated concrete pavement and overlaid it with 8 inches of HMA placed in four lifts. The public has commented favorably on the smoothness of the new road.

The final award won by Heartland Asphalt, Inc. was for its work on 240^th Street, south of Mason City, in Cerro Gordo County. It paved and widened the existing gravel road, first stabilizing the roadbed with rock to provide a stable sub-base. Railroad tracks that cut through the middle of the road had to be widened to provide access to a new ethanol plant. The company used HMA mixes with special binders so that the road could handle a large volume of truck traffic. Heartland kept in constant communication with property owners, the ethanol plant and the railroad to ensure that the project ran as smoothly as possible.

Mason City, IA – June 21, 2006 -- Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City has been awarded the Mason City Municipal Airport Runway 12-30 and Taxing “A” Rehabilitation Projects.

The $2.24 million dollar Runway project and the $1.2 million dollar Taxiway project are set to begin Monday, June 26, 2006 and have a construction time schedule of 60 calendar days. The project will require over 45,000 tons of asphalt before it is complete.

The City of Mason City is the owner and Mead and Hunt, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota is the engineering firm on the project.

Mason City, IA – June 21, 2006 -- Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City recently awarded smoothness awards to the Mason City Municipal Airport and the City of Clear Lake City Council.

The Airport Runway Resurfacing and Municipal Street Resurfacing Smoothness Awards were presented to Heartland Asphalt at the 2006 Asphalt Paving Association of Iowa annual conference and awards banquet. The winning projects were for the Mason City Municipal Airport Runway 12-30 Rehabilitation Project which included milling and replacing the entire runway. The winning award in Clear Lake was for the 4^th Avenue South Street Improvement Project.

The City of Mason City is the owner and Mead and Hunt, Inc. of Minneapolis, Minnesota is the engineering firm on the airport project. The City of Clear Lake is the owner and WHKS of Mason City was the engineer on the 4^th Avenue project.

Mason City, IA – July 14, 2006 -- Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City has been awarded the Hancock/Cerro Gordo County U.S. Highway 18 Paving project from Garner

to the west side of Clear Lake. The project was bid through the Iowa Department of Transportation’s June letting.

The $4,427,592 project has start date of July 19, 2006 and has an expected completion date of July 1, 2007. Along with patching, the addition of several turning lanes, passing lanes, and installation of sub-drains, the project will consist of 4 feet of asphalt widening on each side of the road. Also, the existing asphalt will be milled off 1” and new 3” asphalt mat will be overlayed for a total of 61, 000 tons of Hot Mix Asphalt.

Mason City, IA – July 14, 2006 -- Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Mason City has been awarded the Hancock/Cerro Gordo County U.S. Highway 18 Paving project from Garner

to the west side of Clear Lake. The project was bid through the Iowa Department of Transportation’s June letting.

The $4,427,592 project has start date of July 19, 2006 and has an expected completion date of July 1, 2006. Along with patching, the addition of several turning lanes, passing lanes, and installation of sub-drains, the project will consist of 4 feet of asphalt widening on each side of the road. The existing asphalt will be milled off 1” and new 3” asphalt mat will be overlaid for a total of 61, 000 tons of Hot Mix Asphalt.

For More Press Releases Please Contact:

Mark Hicks

Heartland Asphalt, Inc.

2601 South Federal Ave

Mason City, Iowa 50401

mhicks@heartlandasphalt.com