Building resilience into the bitumen supply chain
Partner Content produced by KHL Content Studio
03 November 2026
Bitumen supply chains face disruption from geopolitical uncertainty, long transport distances, infrastructure constraints and fluctuations in availability. For paving contractors, the challenge is how to keep work moving when established sourcing and delivery arrangements come under pressure.
A shortage of material can quickly become a problem for the whole project. That makes supply chain resilience a business decision: how much control should contractors take over their supplies, and what investment is justified by the disruption it could prevent?
For a paving contractor, the cost of a missed…
