June 2019 - Bitafal

NEW INDUSTRIAL PLANT

Bitafal group expands its installed capacity by acquiring the plant Urupema

The new plant, located in Barros Blancos at km 27 of Route 8, is the new commitment to develop the local market with new products and reach the regional market with high quality products and technical level.

They are more than 5 ha in area with 2000 m2 of roofed warehouses, plant chemicals advanced and more than 1000 m3 tank where we will develop a new generation of modified asphalts and other products for road maintenance.

He is currently performing a set point and the installation of equipment, an integral vehicle scale and adapted for handling asphalts waiting to be conducting the first tests in tanks next July.

Urupema was a processing plant plasticizers for PVC industry and other chemicals, being a plant that elaborated products both domestically and regionally. The whole plant is functional and adaptable to the preparation of other types of chemical compounds advanced for road maintenance.

CITEVI is working intensively on the development of a new range of innovative products that will be available commercially in the coming months and correspondingly present at events and fairs to participate.

We will keep you informed of developments in the next editions of "Making Roads".

INAUGURATION recoating EN ROUTE 1

novel recoating It opened to prevent reflection of concrete joints Route 1 and the new roundabout Playa Pascual.

On June 3 took place in the vicinity of the Playa Pascual new roundabout Route 1 in the opening of the section by Tracoviax between the km 67. Access and attended the same Minister Victor Rossi, the Director of Highways, Leonardo Cola, senior officials of the Municipality of San José, the staff involved in the project and as friends and colleagues at DNV and other construction companies.

The new roundabout built is the largest in the country, with circulation dual carriageway and various security features. In addition to both sides of the road sidewalks for pedestrians, accessibility ramps and bus stops were built. Furthermore, both vertical and horizontal signaling, being provided in the near future replacement of existing lighting redesigned.

As for the retreading of concrete pavement it stands IRI achieved which is below 1.2 m / km. This was achieved by a skate composed of a 6 m long and 3 sonic sensors leveling sensor (BIG-MULTIPLEX-SKY), coupled to the paver and a multilayer system, at various stages retreading as reported in the Bulletin # 94 June 2018. First a sand asphalt SAMI 2, 5 cm, then a leveling layer CAD-12 4 cm type, and finally the surface layer with an open mixture F-10 3cm. modified asphalt was used in all these layers BITAFLEX AM3. We thank the company provided confidence in providing it.

As for the retreading, to improve the IRI on the stretch of Route intervened and asphalt layer to achieve high durability, safety and user comfort slab repair work and potholes then apply three asphalt layers were made:

1) A layer of sand asphalt as stress relieving membrane (SAMI) modified asphalt made with BITAFLEX AM3.

2) A regularization layer on the gauge with a CAD-12 type modified asphalt mixture made with BITAFLEX AM3.

3) A surface layer with an open mixture F-10.

A detail of the work done can be found at the following link: https://bitafal.com.uy/arena-asfalto-con-am3-en-ruta-1/

Cover photo courtesy of SILVER CITY PORTAL

REGIONAL MEETING IN BOLIVIA CIVIL ENGINEERING

Bitafal group was invited to participate in the 1st Regional Meeting of Civil Engineering in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.

It was held from 12 to 14 June at the Universidad Autónoma "Gabriel René Moreno" the meeting of Civil Engineering which was attended technical highlights of the region and where various issues were discussed from structures and pavements to sustainable mobility. It was organized by the University and the College of Civil Engineers of Santa Cruz.

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Among other topics discussed at the meeting they had presentations as "Current Status of Structural Policy", "Bolivian Seismic Design Guide", "Structural Concrete for Large Works" or "Sustainable Urban Mobility".

There was a significant presence of students in the last semesters of Civil Engineering which showed a very good technical level and interest in the issues.

Group Bitafal up another level in asphalts to buy Laboratory Urupema

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