03/09/2025 - Bitafal

ON THE WAY TO XXIII SILA

There are few days left for the closure of technical works

The next September 5 closes the deadline for sending technical works to the XXIII Cila that will be held in Asunción. From Uruguay there were more than 20 summaries that have been approved for presentation, being one of the most important participations in the country in the renowned congress.

Edition No. 23 of the CILA, which will be held from November 17 to 21, provides for the presentation of more than 400 technical works during the 5 days of the same at the Conmebol Convention Center. As always, Cila will have its integration day and the social activities that make this event one of the most important in the world.

We invite you to know more in the following link: https://cilacongreso.com/

Sustainability in construction

We share our experience with the entire Construction Chamber

The Uruguay Construction Chamber organized a meeting called “Sustainability in Road Construction: real trends and application cases” to analyze the advance of the culture of sustainability in our sector. The event held on August 7, was attended by the United Nations Global Pact.

BitaFal was invited together with the Constructora Traxpalco company to present its experience in the application of the concepts of sustainable production to the production of asphalt and asphalt emulsions.

Before a room full of technicians and representatives of construction companies of different items, our commercial head Victoria García presented in detail the process that BitaFal transits in the development of sustainable asphalt, aqueous emulsions that reduce the use of hydrocarbons, the reconversion of the energy matrix of our production plants and the research and innovation work that is carried out from the chair of sustainable asphalts Bitafal - Um.

For his part, our head of quality, safety and environment Ana Laura Hernández, recalled the process that led us to prepare the first sustainability report of the company in 2024 and highlighted the importance of systematizing the information of all the dimensions involved in sustainable production, especially on indicators such as carbon footprint and water footprint. In that sense, he encouraged the representatives of the different companies to begin touring the way to prepare their own sustainability reports. "We have a lot to do, but we are on the right path," he concluded.

The panel was also composed of the human management manager of Traxpalco, Andrea Caraballo, who stressed the importance of joint work between companies in the sector to reduce the environmental impact of road construction, especially thinking about communities and ecosystems that can be affected in the construction process. The event was present at the Executive Director of the Global Pact Felipe Filomeno and had the moderation of the head of the Department of Economic Studies of the CCU Florence I will be.

An excellent experience of exchange between representatives of companies that share concern for a more sustainable production, which takes care of the social and environmental aspects in the road construction of our country.

Welcome finger a bitafal

We visit our facilities for students of the Udelar Faculty of Engineering

Within the framework of our academic activities, in August we received a group of students from the postgraduate course of “Asphalt mixtures: dosage and control design” dictated by the University of the Republic in conjunction with the University of La Plata, to provide them with an introduction in the new methodologies that we develop in the production of sustainable asphalt.

Our general director Santiago Kröger was in charge of sharing a brief history and present of the company that included all the technological innovations with the environment that Bitafal offers to the road industry and that point to a public work of quality, durable and sustainable.

The classroom of our Citevi laboratory was filled with postgraduate students who could know firsthand the developments carried out in terms of warm asphalt mixtures, modified asphalt, water -based emulsions and rap. They also analyzed the difficult disposal of other industries that are incorporated into the asphalt production process, which makes this technique a great ally of other production sectors, without becoming a landfill.

One of the elements that most caught the students' attention was the possibility of developing the Glasphalt, through the incorporation of glass into the production of asphalt mixtures. While this product is in the stage of research in a race end of the Cas BitaFal-MUM, its great potentiality is observed since in Uruguay 40,000 tons of glass are available a year, that is why they are recycled with this technique.

The day was conducive to encourage students to deepen their research projects, with a view to keeping Uruguay at a level of excellence in road construction. From BitaFal we are very grateful for the visit and we are already committed to reiterating it in the very close future.

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