With the opening of this new facility, Shell’s downstream business is now co-located with its technical centres in Shanghai, following the opening of Shell’s commercial centre in 2015 and its lubricants regional technology centre in 2014.
“This new facility is geared towards supporting our customers’ technical needs, providing advice and customised technical solutions tailored to fit their varied paving needs. This centre will also help us develop new bitumen and asphalt technologies, in collaboration with our other solution centres globally and our R&D centre in Bangalore, India,” said John Read, General Manager for Technology, Shell Bitumen.
Shell BCSC is equipped with advanced bitumen and asphalt testing equipment, and is staffed by specially trained bitumen experts. The BCSC team will support Shell Bitumen’s continued business growth ambitions in China, including testing of new technologies in China, like Shell Bitumen Fresh, a solution that reduces bitumen odour during paving activities. This technology won the International Road Conference award for Innovation in 2015.
Shell Bitumen is the leading international supplier of bitumen in China, and has provided bitumen solutions for numerous iconic projects in the country including: the Guangzhou-Shaoguang Expressway and Guangdong’s five expressway, the longest expressway project in Chinese history; bridges constructed along the Yangtze River; the Maijishan Tunnel, China’s longest tunnel; runways at numerous airports in Hubei, Kunming, Liaoning, Shanghai, Shanxi, Sichuan, Wenzhou and Xiamen; Shangai’s high-speed rail projects; and at iconic locations like Beijing Olympic Park, the China Pavillion at the Shanghai World Expo and Chang’an Avenue in Beijing during the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China.
