The company is a part of the ORLEN multi-utility concern and one of the major suppliers of bituminous binders used for road surface production in Central Europe. In line with the strategy adopted by ORLEN Asfalt its commercial activity is focused mostly on the Polish market, nevertheless every year our products are used in countries around the world.
As part of ORLEN Group’s bitumen production segment, we supply products from six production centres located in Poland (Płock, Gdańsk, Trzebinia), the Czech Republic (Pardubice, Litvinov) and Lithuania (Mažeikiai). Such factors as process development and sales consolidation have enabled us to meet the ongoing bitumen market demand. Currently, ORLEN Group supplies bitumen at an average level of about 1.6 million tons of bitumen per year.
Since 2003, the ORLEN Asfalt company has also been at the forefront of bitumen technology development:
- we have implemented over 100 research projects,
- we have marketed 16 new products,
- we cooperate with local governments and universities in the field of environmentally friendly bitumen technology development,
- we have published 17 editions of the Bitumen Handbook in four language versions