Imagine a world where roads repair themselves, eliminating potholes, reducing maintenance costs, and ensuring smoother, safer rides for everyone. That future is now a reality! Basekim Refinery’s R&D team has developed a groundbreaking self-healing road paving material—an innovation that automatically mends cracks before they become major problems. This revolutionary asphalt uses advanced nanotechnology and smart chemical reactions to restore […]
Gilsonite uses The global market for Gilsonite, a prized natural resource with diverse industrial applications, has seen significant growth in recent months, driven by a surge in demand from various sectors. Industry analysts attribute this uptick to the versatile properties of Gilsonite, which finds use in asphalt production, inks, paints, and varnishes, among other industrial […]
Basekim ship bitumen to Burgas and Constanta a Turkish bitumen holding and supply firm, is strategically expanding its operations into the Bulgarian and Romanian market. The company plans to facilitate regular bitumen shipments to the Bulgarian and Romanian Black Sea port of Burgas and Constanta. The majority of these shipments will be transported by rail to […]
Political intervention in markets is back If the 1980s to the 2000s saw the political pendulum swing firmly towards market liberalisation, an opposite shift has been evident since the Great Financial Crisis a decade ago. Impetus for stricter regulatory control and market intervention has multiplied further during the market turmoil of 2020-2022. The Covid-19 pandemic […]
Advances gilsonite based filter to sequester greenhouse gas at wellhead Researchers advance asphalt-based filter Gilsonite CO₂ capture to sequester greenhouse gas at wellhead (Nanowerk News) Rice University scientists have found a way to make their asphalt-based sorbents better at capturing carbon dioxide from gas wells: Just add water. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour […]
Gilsonite in self heating asphalt repair system Cracks in asphalt are a common sight, but a pain Gilsonite in self repair asphalt. It is expensive and because the roads need to be closed down for construction, traffic jams occur. Researchers at polymer institute of research and development in Turkey are working on a solution by […]
Gilsonite exported in high quantity since 2013 Due increase of crude price and then bitumen price Chinese started to buy Gilsonite from Iran again in high volume.Normally they are buying in raw form and pulverizing in very fine particle size to save some cost and control the quality. On September and October compare other months since 2013 till […]
Bitumen project in Africa Bitumen project moving slowly due economic issue and rainy season in Africa.The pressure on road paving is increasing for a variety of reasons including climate change and rising average ambient air temperatures. Roads are not designed to withstand this, leading to early-life surface rutting and deformation that has to be repaired more […]
Gilsonite: A Breakthrough Material for Lithium Batteries Researchers at Rice University, led by chemist James Tour, developed an anode made from porous carbon derived from Gilsonite. This unique material demonstrated outstanding stability over 500 charge-discharge cycles. With a current density of 20 mA/cm², the Gilsonite-based anode shows promise for high-power, rapid-charge battery applications—charging fully in […]
