Shell opens advanced bitumen solutions center in China
Shell Bitumen officially opened its new Shell Bitumen China Solutions Centre (BCSC), located within the Hongyi Technology Industrial Area, Songjiang District in Shanghai. It replaces Shell Bitumen’s solutions centre in Beijing, China.
With the opening of this new facility, Shell’s downstream business is now co-located with its technical centers in Shanghai, following the opening of Shell’s commercial center in 2015 and its lubricants regional technology center 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 center will also help us develop new bitumen and asphalt technologies, in collaboration with our other solution centers globally and our R&D center 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.
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