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.