Road bitumen produced at the Turkmenbashi oil refineries network (TORN) become an export item this year has. About 35 thousand tons of this oil-refining product was sold through the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange. About seven thousand tons of raw materials for the production of asphalt concrete were shipped by rail to entrepreneurial structures operating in Uzbekistan.

The demand for Turkmen bitumen is associated with quality improvement of this binder using new vacuum equipment and other technologies at the TORN, which help increase the concentration of asphaltenes in oil residue, which increase the softening temperature of bitumens, and resins that improve the adhesion and elastic properties of the commercial product.