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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, ...

The extracted bitumen has the consistency of peanut butter and requires extra processing before it can be delivered to a refinery. There are two ways to process the bitumen. Some tar sands producers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nagpur: Union minister for road transport and highways, Nitin Gadkari, inaugurated a 1km stretch of Asia's first highway with a bio-bitumen blended surface. The trial patch begins near the ‘Kamptee ...

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 ...

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 ...