Tarmac may refer to:

Engineered surfaces

Tarmacadam Tarmacadam or tarmac is a concrete road surface, road surfacing material made by combining tar and macadam (crushed stone and sand), patented by Welsh inventor Edgar Purnell Hooley in 1902. It is a more durable and dust-free enhancement of simpl ...

, a mainly historical tar-based material for macadamising road surfaces, patented in 1902 *

Asphalt concrete Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and Tarmacadam, tarmac or bitumen macadam in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface road surface, roads ...

, a macadamising material using asphalt instead of tar which has largely superseded tarmacadam * ''Tarmac'' colloquial term often applied to any paved surface of an airport, regardless of material, including the **

Airport apron The airport apron, apron, flight line, or ramp is the area of an airport where aircraft are parked, unloaded or loaded, refueled, boarded, or maintained. Although the use of the apron is covered by regulations, such as lighting on vehicles, it ...

Taxiway A taxiway is a path for aircraft at an airport connecting runways with Airport apron, aprons, hangars, Airport terminal, terminals and other facilities. They mostly have a hard surface such as Asphalt concrete, asphalt or concrete, although sma ...

Runway In aviation, a runway is an elongated, rectangular surface designed for the landing and takeoff of an aircraft. Runways may be a human-made surface (often asphalt concrete, asphalt, concrete, or a mixture of both) or a natural surface (sod, ...

Companies

Tarmac (company) Tarmac is a British building materials company headquartered in Solihull, England. The company was formed as Lafarge Tarmac in March 2013, by the merger of Anglo American's Tarmac UK and Lafarge's operations in the United Kingdom. In July 20 ...

, a British building materials company * Tarmac Building Products, the construction materials division of Tarmac *

Tarmac Group Tarmac Group Limited was a British building materials company headquartered in Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. It produced road surface, road surfacing and heavy building materials including Construction aggregate, aggregates, concrete, cement ...

, former UK-based multinational building materials and construction company * Tarmac Construction, part of Tarmac Group until 1999 when sold off as

Carillion Carillion plc was a British multinational construction and facilities management services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation in January 2018. Carillion was created in July 1999, following a ...

Engineered surfaces

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