Antigo Construction
CONCRETE PAVEMENT BREAKING
Antigo Construction, Inc. is a full-service concrete pavement breaking specialist equipped to provide concrete pavement rubblization, cracking & seating, and breaking for removal throughout the United States and abroad. Antigo operates Badger Breakers® which are manufactured by its affiliate, Badger State Highway Equipment, Inc. Antigo Construction, Inc. (Antigo) entered the pavement rehabilitation business in 1982 when it imported from Germany the first of six guillotine-style concrete pavement breakers. Antigo's business grew steadily during the 1980's due to the rapidly increasing miles of concrete pavements constructed in the 1950's and 1960's reaching the end of their service lives. Also, by the mid 1980's the first of hundreds of major airport rehabilitation projects began which significantly added to Antigo's breaking work.
By 1988 Antigo's owners realized that a more productive concrete breaker was needed to better serve their dual market of cracking & seating concrete pavement in preparation for an asphalt overlay and breaking concrete pavement for removal or recycling. They accomplished this by creating an affiliated company, Badger State Highway Equipment, Inc. (Badger), to manufacture a much improved as well as expanded line of concrete breakers-the Badger Breaker®. Badger has manufactured 15 all-terrain breakers, the 8600 Badger Breaker®, and 10 truck-mounted breakers, the T8600 Badger Breaker®. The 8600 and T8600 have very similar breaking capabilities. Both incorporate an 8-foot wide, 6-ton drop hammer with a maximum drop height of over 8 feet.
In 1995, responding to the transportation industry's need for more cost-effective, less disruptive concrete pavement rehabilitation techniques, Badger designed and manufactured the uniquely different multi-head breaker, the MHB Badger Breaker®, which revolutionized a more recent concrete pavement rehabilitation technique: concrete rubblization followed by an asphalt overlay. Badger has manufactured 25 MHBs to meet the ever increasing demand for concrete rubblization and asphalt overlay, a technique which many pavement engineers feel is the most cost effective method of rehabilitating worn out concrete pavements.
Antigo brought its cracking & seating expertise to England in 1997 when it was chosen to crack the 190,000 square meter M40 project contracted to the Tarmac-Laing Joint Venture-the first cracking & seating project on a Motorway in the UK. This led to the formation of Antigo Breakers Limited which is still active in the UK performing rehabilitation work with both the 8600 and MHB Badger Breaker®.
Antigo now rubblizes, cracks and breaks over 8 million square yards of concrete pavement yearly out of its Antigo, Wisconsin, Boise, Idaho and UK offices. Antigo's fleet of 15 guillotine-style breakers, 25 MHBs and 17 compactors along with its very experienced crew of equipment operators and support personnel make it uniquely capable of providing a full range of concrete breaking services including large or small projects involving highways; city streets; airport runways, taxiways and aprons; parking lots; and interior and exterior building slabs.
To date Antigo has completed more than 3,200 projects involving over 140 million square yards of pavement in 43 states, Canada, South America, the Caribbean Islands, Europe and Afghanistan for over 1,000 well-satisfied customers. From 1 city block urban projects to 1,000,000 square yard Interstate projects requiring six or more breakers at a time, Antigo is prepared to complete the job as specified, on time, and within budget.
