Safe Road Services provides enviromentally friendly winter and summer road maintenance products.

What Is It?

Safe Bind is a high perfomance blend of ammonium ligninsulfonate and and calcium or sodium chloride brines. Lignin is an organic material that fills voids between cellulose fibers in trees, giving them firmness and rigidity. It literally "glues" a tree together. Ligninsulfonate is a by-product of the paper making process during which lignin is separated from cellulose and reclaimed. Ligninsulfonates have a long history of use on roads as a method of dust control and surface stabilization. Ligninsulfonates have a natural adhesive property when moist. When applied to dirt roads, the ligninsulfonate solution coats individual road particles with a thin adhesive-like film that binds particles together. It acts as a dispersant, allowing the particles to pack closer together for a stronger surface. Consequently, water uptake by the road bed surface is greatly reduced and the binder is less likely to be washed away by rain. Approved by the U.S. Forest Service Administration, General Service Administration and local and regional government agencies

Advantages of a High Performance Blend

• Versitility

  • Dust control and fines retention agent
  • Base stabilization agent
  • Shoulder mix agent

  Powerful Corrosion Inhibitor

  • Substantially reduces, even stops corrosion damage to ferrous metals

  Greater Cost Reductions

  • Less blading and grading
  • Virtually eliminates potholes and wash-boarding
  • Out performs MgCl2 and CaCl2 brines

Enviromentally Friendly

• Greater than 50% in cloride introducted into the natural and built enviroment
• Significantly less corrosive than CaCl₂ or MgCl₂ brines, less corrosive than water
• Safe to gandle
• Binds road together with "Nature's own glue"
• Cost Competitive with liquid calcium chloride