Hope For Rural Roads In Zimbabwe As Liquid Acrylic Co-polymer to be used for road construction.

Nick Mangwana who is the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services permanent Secretary has announced that Zimbabwe is embarking on an acrylic road sealing in Chiredzi.

In a tweet Mangwana said
. “Bundu Roads is working on 20 km pilot on improving rural gravel road. They are using liquid acrylic co-polymer which allows ecapsulation of soil particles and expulsion of moisture. They say it is 1/3 cheaper than costs of tarred roads,”

He said sealing with acrylic is way cheaper and a simpler process than gravel roads which are first compacted then sealed and also require the construction of standard asphalt concrete.

Statics from Zimfact state that 78200km of Zimbabwe's 98000km road network is unsurfaced gravel and earth roads which translates to 80% of the network.

This cheap way of traditional tarring solutions would be of help in transforming Zimbabwe's rural areas in a few years.