Bitumen is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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The demand of recycled asphalt has just witnessed huge growth due to rising petroleum prices across the globe. Recycled asphalt plays an important role in improving the p...
Blue Smoke Control, a division of Anaheim, California-based Butler-Justice Inc., has introduced X-VOCS™, the company’s newest system for eradicating odour-causing...
Formula 1 race tracks are one of the greatest challenges for installation teams and machinery. The Russian building contractor Tekhalyans already used Benninghoven techno...
A new bitumen binder which aims to increase the lifespan of roads and reduce the need for roadwork interventions is being put to the test in a long-term study. A section...
Puma Energy’s Bitumen business, Puma Bitumen, today announced the opening of its latest bitumen terminal in India. The new terminal will produce up to 40KT of asphalt eve...
is a highly viscous liquid; therefore, it needs a suitable type of packaging to avoid leaking and contamination. Generally, bitumen packaging classifies into three types,...
Penetration grades are one of the most common types of bitumen for road construction. This type of bitumen is known for its durability and resistance to temperature chang...
Bitumen is a by-product of crude oil which is known for its waterproofing and adhesive properties. In ancient times, bitumen was mainly used for binding building material...
Article by Chaitali Avadhani The global bitumen emulsifier market has been tremendously affected during the Covid-19 outbreak. Various types of bitumen emulsifiers such a...
Puma Energy Bitumen announced its first demonstration in Queensland, Australia of high-performance asphalt GB5®. The demonstration by Puma Bitumen and Boral Asphalt saw t...
A number of governments, particularly those in BRICS nations, are emphasizing on improving their highways or freeways in order to improve efficiency of the transportation...
Red Stag Materials is run by of a dedicated team of industry professionals with over 90 years of experience in UK infrastructure and the highway maintenance sector. They...
Instarmac Group plc is pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Shorrock as its new Managing Director from 1 April 2020. Mark has extensive experience within the const...
PolyBitumens has taken delivery of the first ‘Road Legal’ Mobile Storage Tank in the UK, which will enable the storage of Bitumen Emulsion at remote sites around the coun...
According to a new research report by the market research and strategy consulting firm, Graphical Research, Latin America Bitumen Market size to cross US$5.7 billion by 2...
Ceylon International Petroleum & Gas Conference 2018 (CIPC) & Ceylon Bitumen Conference 2018 (CEYBIT) CPW 2018 will focus on key market sectors of the petroleum p...
This past July, Shell Bitumen presented its Shell Mexphalte C binder for coloured asphalt tunnel at the Make the Future Live annual festival in London. Make the Future Li...
We live in rapidly changing times, especially for bitumen trading businesses. Refiners are concerned about the impact that the International Maritime Organisation’s 2020...
Scientists at Aston University have developed Bio-Bitumen, a new way to convert organic bin waste such as decomposed food, paper and plastic into a substance suitable for...
Dr Alvaro Garcia, a lecturer with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, has hit on a recipe for success by drawing inspiration from the Spanish vers...
ASI is constantly striving to extend the life of the valuable infrastructure network through planned maintenance using RHiNOPHALT®. Their goal is to provide road users an...
The reluctance of oil and water to mix together and stay that way is so well-known that it has become a cliché for describing any two things that do not go together well....
Resource-saving technologies are more in demand than ever before. The Wirtgen cold recycling process has been proving its credentials for many years – and already meets t...
Ian Gates describes each pebble of bitumen as resembling a liquid-filled headache capsule and, for Alberta, Canada, struggling to build pipelines, this tiny package could...
The All-In-One Heater Kit from Seattle, Washington-based Process Heating Company is a complete system that can provide direct heat to the asphalt tank, while also supplyi...
Soon the footpath you walk on could be full of cigarette butts, instead of being littered with them. Trillions of cigarette butts are produced every year worldwide, with...
China marked the completion of the main bridge deck section at the China mainland side of the landmark Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, using bitumen solutions and technica...
The highways industry is faced with a unique challenge – The ‘Road’, with its depreciating finite life, cannot economically be renewed in line with traditional life...
Leading screw pump manufacturer’s smart technology surmounts challenges Sometimes mined, but most often manufactured, the transportation and handling of asphalt is a chal...
users of cold recycling equipment, a specialist laboratory for road construction or research institute: the WLB 10 S from Wirtgen is the ideal assistant to contractors or...
Projects and Technologies Division Over 10,000 of Shell’s 90,000 plus employees work in their “Projects and Technologies” division, which has research locations spread ou...
India has the world’s second largest road network after the United States of America, with a road infrastructure of over 47,000 km. The Indian bitumen market that is curr...
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