INNOVATION

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

In order to offer a competitive service adequate to the requirements of the current market, Pavasal integrates innovation in both the research and development of new products and services and in management processes.

PROPRIETARY DEPARTMENT

Pavasal has a proprietary innovation department which has led the Company to become a sector benchmark due to its advances in roads and paving.

PERMANENT PROCESS

In these fields of activity, R&D&i is understood to be a permanent process, particularly in relation to paving technology and new products, and to the manufacturing and commissioning processes of bituminous products (emulsions, cold and hot set agglomerates).

In the use of bituminous mixtures with tyre powder

Asphalting a circuit

Demonstration of the asphalting of the Albacete circuit

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More significant R&D&i projects

  • HOT RECYCLING

    greater than 50% of bituminous mixtures

  • IMPROVEMENT IN SURFACE REGULARITY

    through the application of the IRIS 2000 equipment

  • IMPROVEMENT IN THE ROAD SURFACE MILLING TECHNIQUE

    through the application of long-distance references.

  • DEVELOPMENT

    of phonoabsorbent mixtures.

  • DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT

    of the execution of printed asphalt.

  • WATERPROOF MIXTURES

    Development and improvement

  • COLOUR MIXTURES

Since its foundation PAVASAL has been an innovative company, dedicating a major part of its efforts, both human and material efforts to the research and development of new products and processes, as well as innovating in existing products, through the application of new emerging technologies to its products and processes, substantially improving them, both the former and the latter, and allowing them to remain at the forefront in technology applied to the development and execution of the construction projects and activities it carries out.

The R&D&i activities in which PAVASAL regularly engages include, namely, those relating to road technology, and mainly those relating to the manufacturing and commissioning of bituminous products (emulsions, cold and hot set agglomerates), as well as the development of new products and processes, and improvement thereof.

The most significant R&D&i projects executed at PAVASAL in recent years include:

  • Hot recycling greater than 50% of bituminous mixtures
  • Improvement in surface regularity through the application of the IRIS 2000 equipment
  • Improvement in the road surface milling technique through the application of long-distance references.
  • Development of phonoabsorbent mixtures.
  • Development and improvement of the execution of printed asphalt.
  • Waterproof mixtures
  • Colour mixtures

In recent years, PAVASAL has participated in the Fénix Project under the CENIT programme of the CDTI (Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology), which is the largest road surface research project in Europe, whose main lines of research have been the recycling of bituminous mixtures, safety and comfort in roads, warm and semi-hot bituminous mixtures, and research to achieve more energetically sustainable manufacturing plants.

POSIMIX PROJECT

The objective of the project is to develop a technological solution which allows the recovery of the Posidonia oceanica from beach cleaning operations using asphalt mixtures. It is a project executed in cooperation with the company NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS FORESTALES, S.L., endorsed by the IVACE (Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness) under the Financial Instruments for R&D in Cooperation programme. This project is 50% co-financed by the FEDER Funds under the FEDER Operating Programme of the Autonomous Region of Valencia 2014-2020.

THERMAL ASPHALT

The main objective of the project is the obtainment of new asphalt mixtures that counteract the effects of the thermal variations that current mixtures can suffer and which have better or identical technical characteristics than current mixtures but at a lower environmental cost. In order to achieve this objective, a type of materials called Phase Change Materials (PCMs) will be used in tread mixtures, using various at different temperature intervals to obtain different types of materials depending on their field of application.

In order to carry out this project, PAVASAL will be assisted by the Technological Institute for Construction (AIDICO).

MORE ENVIRONMENTALLY EFFECTIVE SELF-HEALING BITUMINOUS MIXTURES (ECOASPHALT) GREEN WARM ASPHALT

The main objective of the project is the development of the cold set agglomerate manufacturing and commissioning techniques to achieve mixtures with better technical characteristics than current mixtures, which can be used in similar situations to hot mixtures, with a lower cost of resources and energy consumption.

In order to achieve said objective, the aim is to add a cold mixture of those described in current regulations, a powdered additive composed of a set of materials mixed in certain proportions we call “Ecoasphalt”.
In order to achieve said objective, the aim is to add a cold mixture of those described in current regulations, a powdered additive composed of a set of materials mixed in certain proportions we call “Ecoasphalt”.
In order to carry out this project, PAVASAL will be assisted by the company “NUEVA TECNOLOGÍA REHABILITACIÓN Y REFORMAS S.L.” and by the research centre “FUNDACIÓN INVESTIGACIÓN E INNOVACIÓN PARA EL DESARROLLO SOCIAL”.