The Uruguayan Roads Association organized its technical day on August 15 and 16. The event brought together authorities, technicians and representatives of the main road construction companies, who gathered in large numbers in the conference room of the Crystal Tower Hotel.

Our Transformation and Strategy Manager, Eng. Ignacio Kröger, was in charge of presenting about the new generation of MAX Sustainable Asphalts. Ignacio focused on an explanation of what warm mixtures consist of and what prospects they have in our country.

“The generation of sustainable solutions for the road industry is in BITAFAL's DNA,” Ignacio began by pointing out, who after explaining the technical characteristics that this line of products brings together, provided a complete overview of what is happening in the world with similar experiences. .

MAX Asphalt offers a series of benefits for our country, including: lower costs due to reduced fuel use, longer useful life of roads, greater safety and ease of application during construction.

“For us, introducing any product into the market seems extremely delicate”; He highlighted the laboratory work carried out in the company, with demanding tests and analysis, which are then continued in the field work.

Finally, the expert referred to the work being carried out with the recently inaugurated BITAFAL – UM Sustainable Asphalt Chair, a joint project with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Montevideo, where advanced students and graduates of disciplines linked to engineering road find an area where they can deepen their knowledge about Sustainable Asphalts and especially about warm mixtures, with the aim of being able to apply them to road production in the near future. “We hope at the next Ibero-Latin American Asphalt Congress (CILA) to be presenting the first works arising from the work of this chair,” he concluded.