Management of CWM aims to make the company even more sustainable. After the closure of the Isla refinery and because Venezuela is no longer an option, the cleaner bitumen to produce asphalt has to come from elsewhere. CWM can perform quality checks on the asphalt in its own lab to ensure the customer gets value for money. During road construction, tests are carried out and analyzes are made of the work delivered. No wonder that CWM offers a three-year warranty for completed roads.
In addition to diversification, CWM also looks at how new technological developments can be applied. For example, CWM has worked as a pilot project on the use of bitfoam (= bitumen, tar as a raw material to make asphalt, mixed with foam) in road construction. In addition, when milling roads to be renovated, the scraped asphalt is mixed with bitumen, which can be used as a substrate instead of the traditional and less durable diabase. A thinner layer of asphalt will then suffice. This form of recycling saves a lot of asphalt and therefore costs. It has already been used with great success. After a thorough inspection, it turned out to be in perfect condition.