Tarways Asphalte Co.Ltd

Tarways Asphalte Co. Ltd has been laying tarmac since 1973, when it was started in Liverpool by W.C. Batterton. It is one of the UK's longest established tarmac and asphalt contractors. David Batterton joined the business in 1984, became managing director in 1994, and bought the company in 1999. By 2005, it had grown to four teams working across the North West. In 2007, it doubled its workforce and worked nationwide.

By 2017, it encompassed 10 skilled teams, and it now operates with eleven gangs across the whole of the UK, with offices in the North, Midlands and South. It works across sectors including schools and education, retail, hospital, industrial, office, car dealerships, sports stadia, transport, local authority and residential. It specialises in coloured tarmac, porous tarmac, resin-bound finishes and RAP (recycled aggregate product) surfaces. It supplies and lays RAP (recycled aggregate product), coloured tarmac, porous tarmac, resin-bound finishes, fuel-resisting and acid-resistant asphalt.

It works alongside specialists to provide cold planing, slurry seal, white lining, anti-skid surfaces, tactile paving and safe play materials. Its work is quality guaranteed and environmentally-friendly, and can be carried out to meet specific building regulations, including BREAM requirements. It works with public sector, private sector and local clients across the UK. Its clients include Aldi, Mercedes Benz and Anfield.

Asphalt surfacing and larger tarmac projects form the core of the work described by customers of this Liverpool-based road construction company. Positive accounts highlight the installation of a substantial car park, with one commercial client describing a thirty-two bay project that was completed to a high standard and followed by a prompt return for additional work at short notice. Shane is named repeatedly as a helpful and effective point of contact, and a home driveway resurfacing is also mentioned with satisfaction, alongside praise for Steve, described as a prompt and professional manager.

Several reviewers note the speed of the crews and their apparent familiarity with the task, with one onlooker in Scotland remarking on how quickly and efficiently the team worked. Against this, a recurring theme in the lower-rated accounts concerns conduct away from the surfacing itself, including complaints about aggressive driving, confrontational behaviour towards other site workers and residents, and inconsiderate parking that left people blocked in without apology. These accounts describe a workforce that delivers on the job but whose behaviour on public roads and shared sites has caused serious concern.