The Government delegate in La Rioja, Beatriz Arraiz Nalda, visited this morning the facilities of the company Becsa to learn about the project of adaptation of the asphalt plant located in Albelda de Iregua for the supply of sustainable pavements.
En la visita han participado el director general de Construcción de Becsa, Manuel Montolío, el jefe de Departamento de Conservaciones de Carreteras Estatales, José Antonio Gil, y el jefe de Laboratorio de I+D+i de Asfaltos, Pablo Álvarez. On behalf of the City of Albelda de Iregua, the councillor for Finance, Economy and Industry, Neftalí García Domínguez, attended.
Arraiz Nalda explained that, within the support program for Sustainable and Digital Transport within the framework of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan of the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, financed by the EU through the NextGeneration funds, Becsa received in 2022 a grant of 280,000 euros to make investments in its asphalt facilities in La Rioja until the end of 2025. The total investments made by Becsa within this program at the national level amount to 6.3 million euros, of which a grant of 2.55 million euros has been approved.
Through this grant, Becsa works to achieve sustainable pavements, reducing the carbon footprint and improving its sonoreductive capacities, thanks to the support that this aid entails for the renovation or adaptation of media and machinery.
Becsa has already completed the planned investments in La Rioja and is finishing the rest of the investments at the national level, which are framed within 3 different lines of action: the increase in the use of solid recycling (RAP- Recycled Asphalt Pavement) in high rates both hot and cold; the addition in bituminous mixtures of rubber from out-of-use tyres (NFU); and the decrease in temperatures of hot bituminous mixtures (m.b.c.) by foaming.