A brochure outlining the safety, comfort, and environmental benefits of asphalt paving, and the key role it has to play in creating sustainable roads for the future.
Eurobitume's Task Force Data Collection created a comprehensive database of bitumen properties for many commercially available bitumens in Europe. The purpose of the project was to allow assessment of the various test methods proposed as candidates to measure properties which may be suitable for future bitumen specifications..
This document provides the bitumen industry viewpoint on the development of performance related bitumen specifications. It is an update of the industry position reported in 2002.
A description of the production, chemistry, use, specification and occupational exposures related to bitumen from the manufacturers' perspective. A joint publication of the Asphalt Institute and Eurobitume.
New 2011 Edition
A summary of the latest results from the most recent study of lung cancer in European asphalt workers, conducted by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has again found no association between lung cancer risk and exposure to bitumen fumes.
Eurobitume has prepared a guidance table translating the current list of REACH use descriptors for bitumen, prepared by CONCAWE, into uses and applications commonly understood throughout the bitumen industry.
This information is given here to enable downstream users to see the list of uses that were included in the preparation of registration dossiers.
Construction products in contact with drinking water, fall within the scope of the Construction Products Directive (CPD, 89/106/EEC). This report describes the approach proposed by Eurobitume to the EAS Coordination group in 2004 and reports laboratory testing. The results show that Regulated Dangerous Substances (RDS) are not released from bitumen into drinking water in quantities exceeding regulatory limits
A description of the production, chemistry, use, specification and occupational exposures related to bitumen from the manufacturers' perspective. A joint publication of the Asphalt Institute and Eurobitume.
New 2011 Edition
More detail on the IARC Monograph Volume 103 evaluation of occupational exposures to bitumen and bitumen emissions has been published in The Lancet, December 2011.
Eurobitume has published a 'cradle to gate' Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) of bitumen - from oil well, through transportation and manufacture, to the refinery gate.
