TNK-BP’s Innovative Technologies for Road Construction

“We are facing problems with to the quality of roads and high costs of road construction in Russia. It is very important therefore to improve research and development efforts in this field and constantly work for development of innovative materials and technologies. High-quality polymer asphalt cements and new approaches to construction and operation of roads are used throughout the world,” said Eldar Verdiev, Head, Performance Unit Bitumen, TNK-BP.
Main consumers of TNK-BP’s bitumen products are road construction and capital construction companies. Bitumen is supplied to more than 30 regions of Russia through a network of official distributors.
Production of the new polymer asphalt cement TNK Alfabit will be increased by more than one and a half time in 2010 up to 36,000 tons a year. TNK Alfabit prolongs the guaranteed service life of roads from two–three years to seven–ten years without interim repairs compared to conventional bitumen. TNK Alfabit is produced at the experimental refinery of TNK-BP in Ryazan.
The international exhibition-forum “Roads of Russia in the XXI Century” is organized by the Federal Road Agency at the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation under the auspices of the Chelyabinsk Region Administration. The exhibition-forum is being held in the framework of celebration of the Day of Road Workers and will last through October 15.