Road

High performance, huge experience and innovative solutions at service of highway.

Roads and asphalt have a crucial role in the accomplishment of human activities and for achieving progress in the transport of goods and persons.
They are also an important indicator of the economic development of a Country, with ways and paces that differ from Nation to Nation, but which are in continual growth. Even in more developed geographical areas, for example in Europe, in recent years there has been a constant increase in traffic, above all in the heavy sector, and in consequence a requirement for improvement of the existing road network. The development of growth areas too creates furthermore a pressing need for highway infrastructures.
The highway construction sector is therefore called upon to respond to these needs for mobility with advanced technologies capable of providing the performance levels required, using materials of ever higher quality and diversifying the application technology for preparing and laying the bituminous conglomerate. This latter is now required to provide high mechanical resistance and to be less affected by low and high temperatures, so that the pavement lasts longer.
Eni bitumens, the result of undisputed competence in production technology and backed up by abundant application experience, can meet these requirements.

Eni Road Bitumen

Eni road bitumens are top quality binders, produced in refinery from suitable crude oils with the most advanced industrial processes, under well-studied and controlled conditions. In the road and airport sectors they are used to prepare bituminous mixes for the paving of roadways and runways constituting flexible structure.
They are available in the grades required by the technical specifications of Road and Motorway Administrations, they meet the specifications and requirements of the EN 12591 specification, introduced to replace the national norms in 2001 to facilitate free circulation of good within the EU. The EN 12591 Standard is the results of a long harmonisation work, in cooperation with the Paving road industry, in order to comply with the performance pavement requirements.
The classes available are those most frequently requested and used in Europe for semisolid bitumen: 35/50, 50/70, 70/100 and 170/210, the characteristics of which meet fully the requirements even under the most demanding conditions.

Characteristics and performance

Eni road bitumens have high resistance to ageing and good plasticity behaviour and perform well at low temperatures. The optimum viscosity in the range of temperatures for mixing and placing guarantees easy workability of the products even for high stress conditions.
For these properties, Eni bitumen gives optimum mechanical characteristics to the mixes, there by guaranteeing the construction of high performance paving and long lasting. The optimum viscosity in the range of temperatures for mixing and placing make easy the workability of the products, guaranteeing the construction of high performance paving - even for high stress conditions.

Applications

Thanks to their particular properties, Eni bitumens confer excellent mechanical characteristics to bituminous  conglomerates. This enables paving to be laid will be long-lasting even under the most demanding conditions.
In the motorway and airport sectors Eni bitumens are used to produce conglomerates for flexible and semi-rigid structures, and they are therefore ideal for paving roads, motorways, racetracks, hard standings, footpaths and airport.
They find further use in many applications where outstanding binding, water-proofing and insulating properties are needed.
Another outlet is in the preparation of bitumen emulsions for use as a take-coat, in surface repairs and dressings and in preparing of cold mixes. They make an optimum base for formulation of products such as blown bitumens, foamed bitumens, asphalt mastics, pastes and paints.