HP Bitumen Handbook - Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited

ole of hpcl in bitumen marketing
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited is a Government of India Enterprise
with a Navaratna status, and Global Fortune 500 company involved in refining
and marketing of petroleum products, with an annual turnover of Rs 1,32,670 Cr.
($ 31,546 Millions) (FY 2010-11). HPCL has emerged as front runner in providing
services par excellence to our esteemed customers and state of art products.
Bitumen is one such product being manufactured and marketed by HPCL from its
refineries at Mumbai and Vishakhapatnam.
Advantages over Competitors
1. Our refineries have capability of producing and marketing of three
grades of Bitumen namely, 80/100, 60/70 and 30/40. The grade 30/40 is
exclusively produced by HPC only. Its major application is in the road
construction of Airport.
2. Our refineries account for highest packing capacity.
3. The quality control measures are observed very critically and bitumen is
tested as per the requirement of BIS.
4. With the nationwide network of marketing offices and supply locations
HPC ensures efficient distribution of the product and closer business
relation with the customers.
5. HPC provides various types of CRMB, NRMB, PMB
6. Technical Service Support: Test reports are provided to the customers.
Infrastructure:
HPC has following supply points for bulk and packed Bitumen respectively,
Bulk Bitumen: Mumbai Refinery, Visakh Refinery, Savli (near Vadodara), Hazira
(near Surat), Chennai, Jhansi, Mangalore, Bahadurgarh
Packed Bitumen: HPC has its presence in packed Bitumen market across the
country. We have depots and COD located in almost in all parts of the country.
The map represents all our upcountry locations where packed Bitumen is
available.
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