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With more vehicles more than ever using the highway network, keeping them safe and moving is vital to the economy. Learn more here about how road emulsions by BituChem are supporting with vital road surfacing maintenance.

Following extreme weather at the beginning of 2020, it's all hands on deck to ensure road resurfacing is carried out efficiently to keep road users safe.

BituChem have a wide range of materials and product options to ensure that both reactive and proactive road repairs can be carried out to potholes and surface dressing can be renewed as part of a summer restoration scheme

We have already experienced winter driving conditions including ice, frost and areas of dense freezing fog. Gritters are despatched to prevent ice forming and creating dangerous driving conditions. But this can adversely affect the asphalt in the long term.

A sealed road is defined as a route which is properly formed with sub layers. Unsealed roads are classed as routes accessible by vehicles that are not sealed with surfacing and emulsions, metalled, or gravelled.

As we approach the end of the year, there is a shift from the preventative applications of surface treatments which are designed to preserve our highways and minor roads.

Roads are not flat but are designed and constructed to assist in the drainage of water. This is known as a camber. The surface is angled to stop rain water and snow melt gathering into puddles.

Road repairs during the Autumn are a combination of pre planned and scheduled activities, assessments of areas likely to need urgent repairs, and reactive maintenance prior to the onset of more extreme conditions.

The highway maintenance market in practice mainly operates nocturnally. This is to avoid peak traffic times and minimise disruption to the day to day life and business of a region. BituChem supplies a full range of road repair products.

Contractors and local authorities are busy carrying out essential maintenance and road surfacing during the summer.