ShoulderMaster's Tom Tomlin, US business development manager, discussed the company's purpose, products, and origins with Brandon Noel, editor of Asphalt Contractor magazine. To see our full LIVE updating World of Asphalt coverage, click HERE.
The CP1000 minimizes material wastage and eliminates laborious hand work. With a wireless remote-control system and built-in cameras for precision, this paver handles various thicknesses and widths effortlessly. Plus, its design significantly reduces both capital and maintenance costs compared to single-use equipment.
Key Product Takeaways:
- Designed by the industry for the industry
- Lays asphalt and gravel materials
- Chain driven, heat rated belt to withstand asphalt
- Wireless remote control for operator safety
- Wireless camera with in cab monitor for ease of operation
- Screed width from 12.5" to 40"
- Screed dropping below existing pavement of 0" and 4" above at any width allowing precisely place materials in multiply layers
- Hopper capacity 88 ft3
- Universal skid steer attachment
- Built tough to withstand harsh conditions
Your company motto is "Designed by the industry for the industry." Can you explain what that motto really means?
"ShoulderMaster was born from the need of our Australian contracting company. We have a contracting company in Australia and they couldn't get products, or they could get products that were either under-designed or they just weren't available. 'Designed by the industry for the industry' - what that means is we are running our products and a construction company in Australia."
So what were the problems that this became the solution for?
"There wasn't a product there at the time. There was a need and a demand for the contracting company to be able to do certain work, but the machine hadn't been worked out yet."
What kind of like job site needs were those specifically?
"Shoulder widening - which is what we where we came into the market as - our shoulder wideners SM1500 and SM2100. [The problem was shoulder wideners] couldn't hold enough material, they couldn't go wide enough, they weren't sturdy enough to get out wide. With our shoulder pavers, the robustness, the need to push a 25 truck with 25 tons of material on it. That's where the evolution from ShoulderMaster came from."
Can you explain the central paver?
"This was strictly born from our owner being at CONExpo 2017 and contractors coming to him, asking him, 'Do you have this product?' They didn't really know what they wanted, they showed them some pictures of some homemade designs. But he took that from 2017 to where we're at today. And of course, there was some slowdown because of COVID, but this is where we're at today."
Attendees swarmed the CP-1000 to investigate it's revolutionary design.Brandon Noel
Looking at the size specifications, it seems kind of large. How maneuverable is this?
"The only thing that we've been able to do with this so far is some enclosed inner-company demoing and proofing in Australia. It was very mobile, very easy to move. But what we're doing here in the U.S., as soon as the show's over this week, is going out to contractors. We're going to start getting their feedback and that's where we're going to evolve the product further. All we did was proof it, and know that we can do what we're supposed to do. But once we get it in the hands of the contractors, that is where we're going to really start to evolve the product even further."
Who are the people that you see as your customers?
"My vision for this is your mill-and-fill customers, your trench customers, and utility customers."
