Surfactants for safer, longer-lasting roads

With nearly 3 million kilometers of roads, the United States has the world's largest road network, almost twice that of China (1.7 million km) and three times that of India (1 million km). With these figures, we understand that the renovation of road infrastructures is essential, not only to ensure safe and smooth travel, but also to guarantee their durability.

In this video, we invite you to discover how surfactants contribute to building longer-lasting, safer roads. Surfactants make sense!

Numerous studies show that a road in poor condition leads to 6-11% higher fuel consumption and can increase vehicle CO₂ emissions by 6%. What's more, in 2015 (the most recent data available), 26% of fatal accidents were linked to infrastructure factors, such as deteriorated pavement or faded road markings.

Faced with these findings and the aging road network, it's crucial to rethink the way we approach road construction and renovation.

Roads can become a strategic lever for the ecological transition of mobility, by integrating innovative and sustainable solutions. Surfactants, through their ability to improve the performance of construction materials, are a key lever for decarbonization. They help to reduce the environmental footprint of roadworks, by enabling the recycling of materials from the deconstruction of old roads to make new ones. But they also, and above all, make it possible to reduce the temperature at which road bitumen is laid, and therefore consume less energy for the bituminous mix, and thus reduce CO₂ emissions from the worksite.