ASA has a keen eye on the driving forces that will dictate future asphalt availability and quality. We understand the market dynamics that create opportunities and challenges for producers and end-users.
SynBit, DilBit and Synthetic Crude Oil from the Athabasca Tar Sands brought forward new handling, processing and quality challenges to the asphalt refiners and ultimately to the asphalt end-user community, but the dramatic and rapid shift of many of North American refiners to processing Shale Oil yielded even greater impacts on the asphalt buyers as Shale Oil is a light crude oil, containing little or no asphaltic bottoms, leading to less asphalt production for paving or roofing applications and potentially starving many existing coker operations.
As quickly as Shale Oil had dominated North American crude production, pricing reactions by OPEC quickly reversed this North American trend, making Shale Oil the worlds marginal crude oil supply, and again shoving the asphalt marketplace into further change.
New asphalt and crude oil trading dynamics in 2016-2019 added broad variability to the North American marketplace, further impacting the North American asphalt community.
As we entered 2021, demand is slowly recovering but the refining community continues to seek the right balance of crude oil selection and refined product economics, further stressing the related quality issues in products such as asphalt.
In little more than a decade, North America has experienced (i) significant shifts in the availability of asphalt, (ii) higher costs for the available asphalt but more importantly, (iii) dramatic and continuing changes in asphalt quality & consistency.
What are the impacts of these rapid market shifts on the continuing demands for asphalt and its various applications?
What are the quality impacts of these new asphalts?
How do you track and manage the changing asphalt quality for your business?
Do adequate asphalt supply options exist?
Are you prepared for the impacts to your business?
ASA can help you to understand and maneuver through the changes that you will need to implement to protect your business needs.
Asphalt supply is dramatically changing and this will impact your asphalt cost and quality.
Asphalt quality is also dramatically changing… changing in ways yet unseen by most asphalt users and many of these end-users have limited or no ability to address these changes.
We can explain what’s happening and we can help you manage through it.
In our market studies, ASA has assessed the North American roofing manufacturers and asphalt refiners, their production or refining sites and the products they manufacture at those sites. We have continually monitored each of these asphalt industry segments, looking for evidence of changes that may impact the asphalt that our clients require.
ASA continually seeks out and evaluates new materials that are claimed to hold the promise to one day supplement or perhaps even replace asphalt. We have conducted assessments of the effectiveness and viability of many of these asphalt alternatives and we can offer an overview of these as well as major current and future asphalt modifiers.
ASA can guide you to those solutions that will best fit your specific business needs.
Highway Paving, Roofing, and Refining
ASA is a recognized part of the North American asphalt landscape. The adjoining pages will tell you more about us, what we do for our clients and perhaps, what we can do for you.
What does your asphalt
supply future look like?
What does your asphalt
quality future look like?
Do you need help with
asphalt terminals or how to
manage asphalt supply?
With the current surge
in crude oil price, how can
you manage or predict
your asphalt cost?
How can you assure the
quality of the asphalt
you receive every day?
Take a new path and try
exploring asphalt with
asphaltunlimitedllc.com
We've done this! Call us.
ASA and our partners
can answer your questions.
With some exciting
new tools and expanding
asphalt options, let’s plot
your new path.
ASA is a recognized part of the North American asphalt landscape. The adjoining pages will tell you more about us, what we do for our clients and perhaps, what we can do for you.
What does your asphalt
supply future look like?
What does your asphalt
quality future look like?
Do you need help with
asphalt terminals or how to
manage asphalt supply?
With the current surge
in crude oil price, how can
you manage or predict
your asphalt cost?
How can you assure the
quality of the asphalt
you receive every day?
Take a new path and try
exploring asphalt with
asphaltunlimitedllc.com
We've done this! Call us.
ASA and our partners
can answer your questions.
With some exciting
new tools and expanding
asphalt options, let’s plot
your new path.
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