Bitumen, the sticky, gooey black stuff you sometimes see oozing out of hot road surfaces, is a valuable binding agent. Not only in road building. But also in construction and in the production of ...

The durability of asphalt depends crucially on bitumen—the black binder that holds the small stones in the asphalt together. As the bitumen ages, it can change its properties and become brittle ...

The sticky, black tar-like substance, known as bitumen mixture in customs declaration forms, saw imports soar to the equivalent of 292,000 barrels a day in May and June, up over tenfold from last ...

Next month, Alberta Innovates will award $2 million in funding to several research projects that focus on turning bitumen into products other than gas, diesel and other fuels. Originally ...

Victorian police are warning country residents of con men believed to be travelling across Australia promising cheap concrete and bitumen work and delivering a poor and incomplete product.

A 35-year-old construction worker was referred having sustained molten bitumen burns when a road paving heater pipe loosened. He complained of an inability to open his left eye and facial pain.

Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency is taking over nearly all the country's bitumen supply vital to road building because it believes it is being ripped off by suppliers. Documents show the agency ...