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Eurobitume offers membership opportunities for businesses across the European bitumen industry. As a member, you will gain access to valuable scientific and technical expertise, including regulatory updates, health and safety guidelines, technical advice, and exclusive industry events and publications.
By joining, you not only strengthen your own organisation, but you also actively contribute to shaping policies and regulations that enhance the visibility and recognition of bitumen’s value throughout Europe.
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Access to expertise and information
- Access to a network of experts spanning the bitumen industry
- Direct involvement and active influence in the development of key technical documents, regulatory positions and evolving industry standards
- Direct access to Eurobitume’s in‑house staff expertise, including HSE, sustainability, and technical support
- Exclusive access to scientific and educational resources, including members-only publications, academic collaborations, and exclusive webinars
- Gain early updates on compliance and regulatory developments
- Access to post‑event knowledge sharing papers, presentations and key takeaways circulated for the benefit of all members
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As a Eurobitume member, you become both an active contributor and a beneficiary of a robust network of industry experts. Eurobitume’s in-house specialists provide trusted guidance in health, safety, and environment (HSE), sustainability, and technical matters. Meanwhile, member-to-member exchanges through our dedicated committees and task forces offer practical insights and shared experience.
Your participation in Eurobitume committees and working groups gives you early access and a voice in shaping core technical documents before they are publicly released. Timely compliance updates, regulatory developments and evolving industry standards are communicated via the member‑only e‑bulletin and provide the platform to deepen your understanding of emerging changes.
Additionally, our exclusive scientific and educational platforms, available only to members, provide valuable resources such as expert-led webinars and technical documentation to keep you continuously informed, empowered, and connected to the latest industry knowledge.
Networking and relationship-building
- Strengthen your engagement with national and European authorities through Eurobitume’s established presence and dedicated national interfaces
- Engage in industry‑wide stakeholder relationship-building
- Gain representation at external events where Eurobitume presents member‑agreed positions
- Expand your network and gain peer insights through industry collaboration, benefiting from shared knowledge across member companies
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By participating in Eurobitume’s expert committees, General Meetings, and national events, you join an association whose recognised influence and established presence in key policymaking circles ensure your voice is heard where it matters
You are also supported by our dedicated national interfaces, which strengthen engagement with national authorities and ensure local perspectives are represented in wider European discussions.
Through this combined approach, you collaborate with stakeholders across the construction and infrastructure ecosystem and present a united industry position on key issues.
Advocacy
- Join an association that advocates for its members’ interests on specifications, standards, and policies
- Participate in task forces and committees that shape technical standards, safe handling practices, and promote the sustainability benefits of bitumen.
- Be a member of an organisation that speaks with one voice internationally through strategic alliances with other key industry associations in Europe and beyond
- Through your membership, you shape voluntary consensus standards by providing coordinated member input to the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN) working drafts.
- Lead sustainability and crisis response via collective position papers and coordinated communications that protect the industry’s reputation
- Help set the priorities of Eurobitume events by providing early input into planning and agenda development
- Benefit from access to national and international industry events
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As a Eurobitume member, you are positioned to actively shape the future of the bitumen industry. By engaging in Eurobitume’s expert committees, consultations, and high-profile forums, you contribute to defining technical requirements, promoting practical and effective regulation, and highlighting the sector’s sustainability credentials while presenting a unified voice on the major challenges facing our industry.
Membership gives you a voice in shaping critical industry standards, including those developed by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN), while aligning with other leading associations to ensure strong and unified representation of the industry at both European and international levels. Eurobitume also helps raise your visibility through invited presentations at high-level conferences and forums.
Finally, Eurobitume also provides a collective platform to address issues beyond the scope of individual companies, supporting leadership in sustainability, advancing technical excellence, and defending the industry’s reputation in times of public scrutiny or crisis.
Professional handling and best practices
- Develop clear, science-based guidelines for the safe and professional handling of bitumen
- Promote and adopt best practices through public engagement and transparency
- Participate in review sessions where real incidents and completed projects are analysed
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Eurobitume develops and promotes clear, science-based guidance for the safe, sustainable, and professional handling of bitumen. This guidance is publicly available, but membership gives you a seat at the table: you co‑create the content, benchmark your own procedures, and share real‑world lessons demonstrating that belonging to Eurobitume is the responsible choice for any company committed to the future of bitumen.
By helping set the bar for safe, professional handling, you move from passive rule-taker to active rule-maker, reducing risk, lowering training and compliance costs, and strengthening your company’s reputation while lifting standards across the industry.
Through transparent knowledge-sharing and proactive engagement, Eurobitume supports the consistent adoption of these standards across the sector, improving not only operational safety but also environmental performance and reputational trust.
Examples
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IS230 – A Global Perspective on Bitumen
Construction Products Regulation (CPR) – Eurobitume contributed in the early consultation phase by responding to European Commission and national questionnaires and channelling industry input through standardisation bodies
Our member-only e-bulletin focuses on regulatory developments
Eurobitume’s participation in high-profile conferences, such as the Petersen Asphalt Research Conference, giving members access to international expertise through reports and debriefs
Strengthen your engagement with national and European authorities, supported by our established presence and dedicated national interfaces
Achieve representation at external events where Eurobitume presents member-agreed positions
Members only General Meetings
Microplastics restriction (ongoing HSE file), Eurobitume is helping members interpret forthcoming requirements and prepare compliance guidance
Coordinated member input to CEN/TC 336 bitumens and bituminous binders, ensuring that draft voluntary consensus standards reflect practical expertise
Strategic partners and alliances with key industry partners such as EAPA, EWA and ERF
Reference actor in policy discussions
Managing exposure to emissions from hot bitumen (e.g. recommended maximum safe handling temperatures, H₂S guidance)
Comprehensive guidance on treatments in case of burns from hot bitumen developed jointly with the European Association of Medical Doctors
Aligned guidance on safe handling of bitumen available in up to 20 languages
External safety webinars, a key channel for promoting the safe use of bitumen
