Road construction in Germany is in crisis as the PCK Raffinerie refinery in Schwedt halts bitumen production after oil supply from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline to Germany was cut off. Welt Die.
In addition to PCK Raffinerie, bitumen production has also been stopped at the Leuna refinery in Saxony. Robert Momberg, president of the road builders’ association in the eastern regions of Germany, said that stopping bitumen production “inevitably means a further increase in the price of building materials and thus road construction”.
PCK Raffinerie officials said that the facility has been operating at around 60% capacity recently. Now the plant buys tanker oil and, according to Druzhba, oil from Kazakhstan. It was noted that crude oil of the required quality for bitumen production could not be transported by sea, and that the oil from Kazakhstan was of poor quality. Bitumen is an essential ingredient for asphalt production.
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