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 # Cat® Customers Use Old Shingles to Build Airport Runways (Video)

 

##### Asphalt shingles repurposed to be used on a new Chicago O'Hare International Airport runway

 

 

 Jul 17, 2014 1:00 PM ET

 ([Click here to view video](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-video-old-shingles-new-runway-for-ohare-20140630,0,6283170.premiumvideo))

The culture of sustainable progress fostered at Caterpillar is extended through the sustainable efforts of our Cat® Customers.

Plote Construction was recently featured in [a video by the Chicago Tribune](http://www.chicagotribune.com/videogallery/80676690/News/Video-Old-shingles-new-runway-for-O-Hare) operating Cat® equipment to use 10,000 tons of material originating from old asphalt shingles to build a 7,500 foot runway in the Chicago O'Hare International Airport. Plote Construction, a customer of Patten Cat, is a heavy-highway contractor operating in the Chicago area.

**[Click here to read more about customer applications in the Caterpillar 2013 Sustainability Report.](http://reports.caterpillar.com/sr/business_customer.html)**



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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