Suppliers have secured bitumen that doesn't meet Australia's long-held road quality standards, as supply dries up amid Iran's chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. The federal government is rewriting ...

The war in West Asia has led to an increase of 40% in the international prices of bitumen and as India imports 54% of the key road construction input, use of alternates can help, minister of Road ...

Ranchi: Disruptions linked to the West Asia conflict are driving up the cost of key materials, particularly bitumen, steel, cement and polymers due to supply constraints, affecting construction ...

NEW DELHI: India builds some of the world’s fastest expanding highway networks but depends on imports for a large share of the bitumen used to bind asphalt. The country needs about 9 million tonnes of ...

AI Quick Read New Delhi: After oil and fertilizer, a new commodity is feeling the heat of the West Asia conflict: bitumen. With India’s plan to build nearly 10,000 km of highways in FY27 under threat, ...

Sumerian craftspeople in Mesopotamia didn’t simply scoop up natural bitumen and slap it on boats or bricks. A new materials study suggests they followed repeatable “recipes” that controlled strength, ...

Alberta is moving ahead with its plan to sell bitumen direct to the market, authorizing the agency in charge to borrow almost $1-billion to get the program under way, but questions remain about how it ...

Bio-bitumen is a bio-based asphalt binding obtainable through renewable biomass materials such as agricultural waste, plant oils, lignin, algae or even animal manure and is an environmentally friendly ...

India is pushing the boundaries of sustainable infrastructure as it embraces a new kind of road building material made from agricultural waste. Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Dr ...

New Delhi: The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Wednesday handed over licences to multiple Indian manufacturers to produce bio-bitumen, an alternative to petroleum-based bitumen ...

The news has confirmed that India is now commercially producing bio-bitumen for use as an alternative to traditional asphalt in the construction of roadways. By utilising agricultural waste and ...

NEW DELHI: Union Minister of State for Science and Technology (Independent Charge) Dr Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that India has entered an era of "Clean, Green Highways" following the successful ...