Daily Archives29/06/2026 - Bitafal

BITAFAL's commitment to sustainable production is increasingly present in all aspects of our management. For this reason, once again we participated in the 5th edition of the “Sustainable Uruguay” Expo of the Ministry of the Environment, held at the Antel Arena from June 11 to 14.

On this occasion, our presence was linked to the presentation of the first autonomous electric station in Latin America that we have been building at our Ruta 8 km 27 plant. A great opportunity to inform authorities, businessmen and the general public about the unique characteristics of the project: 100% renewable energy generated from solar panels and stored in high-capacity batteries as well as the most powerful 500 KW chargers available in the country.

A stand with real-time information allowed visitors to know the volume of energy generated, stored and the charging speed of the different vehicles that were in the electric station.

In addition, our General Director Santiago Kröger participated in the panel “Promoting circularity in construction” organized by the Chamber of Construction, presenting to the authorities of the Ministry of the Environment, construction companies and professionals, about the experiences of reusing and recycling waste from different industries in the production of sustainable asphalt, which has already made us a reference on the subject in Uruguay and the region.

A very fruitful exchange with all the actors involved in the road work, which made it possible to verify that there is a long way to go in terms of circularity and that BITAFAL can be a great ally of all companies that need to provide a correct final disposal of their waste, reducing costs and taking care of the environment.

Congratulations to the entire team that made our presence at the Antel Arena possible, for the third consecutive year, presenting our actions in the field of sustainability to the entire society.

Within the framework of its calendar of activities, the Uruguayan Road Association organized, between May 27 and 29, 2026 at the CAF Auditorium, an international meeting together with the World Road Association (PIARC) aimed at professional updating and trends in the industry at a global level. BITAFAL was present through its technical/commercial team, actively participating in the conferences with excellent technical and academic content.

On this occasion, the conference was dedicated to “Intelligent Road Asset Management: Innovation and Technology at the Service of Infrastructure”, addressing topics of great importance for the present and future of the industry. Issues such as digital transformation and AI, sustainable management and its importance in new contracts, new IT tools endorsed by PIARC, were analyzed in depth by a panel of top-level professionals, providing a vision of the challenges that road construction already faces at a global level.

As a fundamental conclusion, the congress made it clear that managing a road today means managing information throughout its life cycle. Moving from a culture of “emergency repair” to one of “preventive and intelligent maintenance” reduces costs for the State, improves user safety and contributes directly to the sustainable development of the country.

Predictive models, the choice and use of appropriate computer tools, today allow the management of roads and bridges, anticipating the problems generated by their use and generating the most economical and least harmful solutions for their normal operation. A special chapter dealt with the management of sustainability in road construction and its inclusion in contracts, the possibilities of accessing bonds or financing conditional on the fulfillment of environmental goals, a topic that BITAFAL has been part of its verticals for years.

The International Conference of the Uruguayan Road Association was a new demonstration that the joint work of companies, academia and authorities is essential for the country to move towards road development at the level of the most developed systems in the world.

Every June, when our anniversary arrives, we feel that it is a good time to look at ourselves in perspective, the path we have traveled, our present and the challenges that lie ahead. Therefore, with great satisfaction, today BITAFAL is consolidated as the leading company in the production of sustainable asphalt and asphalt emulsions in the country, with broad market recognition for its innovative and sustainable nature.

Thanks to the work of a great professional team, in the last year we installed our new governance structure, strengthened our team of collaborators and prepared our infrastructure to continue advancing in the development of new solutions for an increasingly demanding industry.

Among the milestones to highlight in this new anniversary, we mention the reconversion of the energy matrix of our plants, which already has a biomass boiler in operation, another in the process of installation and more than 10,000 m2 of solar panels.

This new infrastructure not only gives us energy independence, but also allows us to carry out one of the most challenging projects in our history: the creation of an autonomous electric station to supply the cargo and passenger transportation system of the Pando – Montevideo axis. Very soon we will be inaugurating this new service unit, which will be the first in the country in this format and will be equipped with the highest power chargers available on the Uruguayan market.

But our concern and effort is also to improve the quality of life of our human team. Safety in our operations occupies a central position in our growth project, and we will continue to redouble our actions so that all of us who work in the company do so with the protection and security that we deserve.

For this, and many more projects that we have been carrying out, we salute all those who have accompanied us in these 42 years, to continue saying with pride: BITAFAL, we transform roads, we develop the future.

For the third consecutive year, the BITAFAL – UM Sustainable Asphalt Chair held its workshop on Asphalt Emulsions. The event, held in the halls of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Montevideo, had the in-person participation of more than 50 students, professionals from construction companies, representatives of the Ministry of Transportation and the municipalities of Salto, Canelones and Montevideo, who were joined by another group of attendees through streaming in the interior of the country.

The master class was led by our General Director Santiago Kröger, who gave a presentation on emulsions in general, their characterization, application conditions, comparison with the use of diluted ones and the advantages they represent in environmental aspects and safety for work teams and road users.

The BITAFAL team was very present during the day, through Antonella Lasso, who was in charge of preparing the material samples from our CITEVI laboratory for the demonstration of the different emulsions, and Ezequiel González from our technical-commercial department, who presented the success stories that the application of these products already has on national routes.

After the theoretical presentation, a practical activity was developed, where all participants were able to test the different materials and their properties, checking their behavior in the laboratory and projecting their use in future road construction.

The meeting culminated with a lunch of camaraderie, which served to reaffirm the excellent relationship within the road community, which increasingly includes construction companies, national and departmental authorities, and academia. For students, this edition had a special value, since for the first time it counted as credits for their educational curriculum.

At BITAFAL we are proud to promote this chair together with the UM, which in its first two years has already produced more than 10 academic works, which in many cases have meant degree work for new engineers, and which in all cases have contributed to the growth of the country's road industry.