Global Bitumen Market Will Expand Quickly from 2014 - 2020: Transparency Market Research

Albany, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/21/2014 -- Bitumen is a dark, highly viscous and sticky substance derived from crude oil through fractional distillation. It is primarily used as a binder in road construction. Bitumen is also known as “asphalt” in North America. It is also used in other applications such as electronics, roofing and adhesives due to its resistance to water, insulation properties and high durability. Properties of bitumen can be altered by adding polymers to it, thus increasing its application scope. There are several types of bitumen available in the global market such as cutback bitumen, oxidized bitumen, polymer modified bitumen (PMB) and bitumen emulsion. Additionally, bitumen is available as hard or soft grades depending on the viscosity. Furthermore, warm mix bitumen, hot mix bitumen and cold mix bitumen are the different types of bitumen available in the market. They are named mix bitumen, hot mix bitumen and cold mix bitumen depending upon the different temperatures required to melt bitumen for applications.