Handling more than 600,000MT per year – serving a wide range of markets including West and East Africa, the Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam. Richmond is also an established manufacturer and supplier of bitumen products such as PMBs, emulsions and cutbacks.

Richmond enjoys strong relationships with global refineries including Sinopec (China), SK Energy (Korea), IRPC (Thailand), Shell & SPC (Singapore), Bahrain and India, enabling it to cater to the wide marker it serves with diverse specifications.  

Richmond ships more than 300,000 MT of drummed bitumen annually from major refineries as well as through its own drumming facilities in the Middle East. Key destinations include Africa, Bangladesh, China, India, Sri Lanka and South East Asia. The Group can ship product in new and reconditioned drums and containers or break bulk or palletized as required by clients.

Richmond also offers environmentally friendly packing solutions such as bagged bitumen using the patented PolyCube system developed in Austria. Bitumen is bagged and shipped by Richmond from its facilities in the U.A.E. in 300kg bags. 

This is an efficient and practical solution for delivering cost efficiency in transportation, stackability, improvement in warehousing and enhancing supply capabilities in difficult geographic locations.

Adherence to quality control and stringent quality assurance protocols throughout the supply chain, ensure that our customers receive packed bitumen meeting guaranteed specifications.

The Group manufactures Polymer Modified Bitumen (PMB) and Emulsions and has a technical tie up with the renowned institution - the Modified Asphalt Research Center (MARC) at the University of Wisconsin (Madison) acentre of engages in innovation in new bituminous binders and asphalt applications technologies. 

Since 2012, the Group has been delivering PMB binders to landmark airport and highway projects in the Middle East. The Group is in the process of expanding its Value Added Bitumen / PMB business in other emerging markets.

The group operates a fully equipped state-of-the-art laboratory in the UAE for testing of base bitumen, modified bitumen, bitumen emulsions and cutback bitumen products with a Pilot Plant.  

The laboratory caters to the Group’s rigorous in-house Quality Control requirements, as well as to customers’ routine and project specific Quality Plans.

The test facilities for bitumen, polymer modified bitumen and emulsions cover a wide range of international specifications such as:

• American (ASTM and AASHTO)
• European (CEN)
• Australian (AS)
• India (BIS)
• Other country specific standards

The Group practices the following QA methodologies:

• Facilitating the testing of bitumen products by customers or their representatives.
• Customers have full access to use our in-house fully equipped laboratory.
• Regularly conducting testing of our products in accredited international independent testing laboratories such as Asphalt Institute Laboratory, USA and CRRI India. As well as Intertek SGS, Geochem, Inspectorate.
• Offering full traceability from source refinery to supply point.
• Product Stewardship.
• Large Database of quality of bitumen offered by various refineries over the period.

The Group maintains an in-depth database of laboratory test results of Bitumen from several refineries. This historical data point allows the group to closely monitor the consistency of the characteristics of Bitumen supplies with reference to their crude source and refining techniques followed by individual refineries.

Richmond's expertise and established credentials enables it to engage with refineries to produce special grades of bitumen in addition to grades that meet more traditional specifications including penetration, viscosity, and performance grades.