The Colas Group is a world leader in the construction and maintenance of transport infrastructure. Its mission is to design, promote and build infrastructure solutions for sustainable mobility. Its three main business segments are Roads, Materials and Railways.
Backed by a workforce of 57,000 people, Colas undertakes about 72,000 projects every year via a network of 800 construction units and 3,000 material production and recycling sites in some fifty countries worldwide on five continents.
Bitumen is a strategic material for the group in the production of asphalt. In 2020, as part of the Group bitumen strategy, Colas incorporated Continental Bitumen Limited in Ireland with the mission of sourcing and supplying bitumen to Colas facilities in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and more recently Latin America. In addition to bitumen procurement and supply chain management, Continental Bitumen is also responsible for developing and coordinating a downstream transportation & storage strategy and growing sales of bitumen in the countries where Colas is present, and elsewhere.
In 2025, Colas Group purchased roughly 1.5 mln tonnes of bitumen in EMEA region with just under half of the volumes for France. Globally, the group procures roughly 4.5 mln tonnes of bitumen with companies in Canada, America, Asia and Oceania.
