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Reno, Nevada, October 14, 2024 – Polyco, manufacturer of high-performance, sustainable asphalt solutions for the roofing and paving industries, has named Dario Alvarez as its new Regional Sales Manager. Alvarez brings over 20 years of sales leadership experience in asphalt pavement solutions and highway safety technologies.

His strength lies in introducing customers to emerging, innovative product lines. Throughout his career, Alvarez has worked with several prominent companies in the industry, including Ingevity and Surface Tech, gaining critical experience with asphalt and pavement preservation technologies. These have included polymer modified asphalts, asphalt emulsion, fuel oils, surface sealers, refined products, and preformed thermoplastic pavement markings.

“What’s been fun for me is [that], in a lot of the jobs that I’ve taken on as a sales professional and as a sales leader, [the] product that I’m about to sell is brand new to the industry,” he said. “That’s something that’s really exciting to me. Polyco is offering the same type of adventure where this is a technology that we’ve had for a few years, but it’s still kind of burgeoning in the industry on the paving side.”

In his new position, Alvarez is tasked with developing relationships with specifiers and end users in the asphalt pavement market to promote SigmaBond, Polyco’s waste tire rubber asphalt modifier. “This role affords me a great opportunity to go out and introduce something that could really benefit the paving industry, that is proven to work really well and be sustainable. SigmaBond has got all of the characteristics and attributes that people are looking for.”

Alvarez has the personality, passion, self-motivation, and technical knowledge that compels companies to revolutionize how they do business. He showed this promise from the beginning when, in 2000, he launched his asphalt career selling liquid asphalt in Ogden, Utah, for Pioneer Oil Company.

“My boss [at the time] hired me because I had a really outgoing personality,” said Alvarez. “It was easy for me to talk to people and engage with people and get them to like me. So I got out there, started talking with contractors, getting involved in the industry.”

Polyco looks forward to advancing the asphalt industry with Alvarez on their team.

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About Polyco

Polyco is a leader in reducing environmental impact by repurposing waste into high-performing, sustainable infrastructure solutions. Their flagship innovation, SigmaBond, enables asphalt products to be upcycled again and again. Click here to learn more.