Drummed Bitumen (New Steel Drums & Polybags)

Penetration 60/70 & 80/100 in 180 kg new steel drums and 300 kg polybags in 20ft FCLs

Drummed bitumen under HS 2713.20 is the essential packaging format that keeps global highway construction moving where bulk asphalt heating terminals do not exist. While major metropolitan coastal corridors receive 5,000 to 10,000 MT hot liquid asphalt via specialized insulated bitumen tankers at 150°C–160°C, regional paving contractors, provincial public works departments, and landlocked nations across East Africa (Rwanda, Uganda, DR Congo, Burundi, South Sudan), the Caribbean, and the Indian Ocean operate without heated shoreline storage. For these buyers, asphalt must arrive in cold, solid, weatherproof packaging that can be transported across rough inland road corridors, stored in ambient unheated yards for up to 12 months without thermal degradation, and decanted batch-by-batch on site using portable drum decanters.

CBIL brokers factory-filled penetration grade bitumen 60/70 and 80/100 packed at primary Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian refineries into cold packaging formats engineered to eliminate rupture and leakage in tropical transit: 1. Brand-New Cold-Rolled Steel Drums: Fabricated from 0.6 mm–0.9 mm cold-rolled steel sheets with spiral triple-seam heads, twin rolling hoops, and press-fit bung closures. Filled at calibrated tare weights with 150 kg, 180 kg, or 200 kg net penetration bitumen. Drums are loaded 80 to 110 drums per 20ft dry container (16.0 to 19.8 MT net payload), braced with wooden dunnage and heavy strapping to prevent shifting during maritime handling. 2. Polybags / Jumbo Bags (300 kg & 1,000 kg Cold Bags): Multi-layer polypropylene outer bags with specialized internal melting film liners (polyethylene melting point <110°C). The inner bag melts completely into the asphalt binder during hot-mix heating without altering penetration or ductility specifications, producing zero steel drum scrap on site. Loaded 20 MT palletized per 20ft FCL.

Every consignment is verified at load port by SGS, Bureau Veritas, or Intertek against ASTM D946 and EN 12591 standards: penetration at 25°C, softening point (ring and ball 49°C–56°C for 60/70), ductility (≥100 cm), flash point (≥250°C), and loss on heating (<0.2%). For mid-tier road contractors and regional distributors, CBIL supports commercial starter-trials of 2 to 5 containers (35 to 90 MT) with up to 21 days detention free-time on container liner bills of lading, scaling to regular monthly shipments aligned with local paving schedules.

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Excluded origins are not offered, including product re-exported, blended or re-processed through a third country. Every lot moves with a certificate of origin naming the producing plant, mine or grower country, and nothing is quoted before the seller and loading point are known.