Patent ID: 8075681

Claim:
Process for producing a hot, cold or lukewarm ready-to-use bituminous mix, wherein the process comprises the following successive steps: (a) preparing a hot, cold or lukewarm master mix or bituminous mix by mixing some or all of a bituminous binder proportioned in liquid form with all of aggregates, and optionally with some or all of fines and/or some or all of aggregate mix and/or some or all of various additives so as to obtain a mixture in which the aggregates and any fines and aggregate mix are coated by bitumen, (b) storing of the master mix or of the bituminous mix obtained in step (a) with a storage time greater than 4 hours, (c) mixing the master mix or the bituminous mix stored in step (b) with one or more additional formulation components so as to obtain a hot, cold or lukewarm ready-to-use bituminous mix, in which step (c) is implemented at a mix production site if the additional formulation component is a thinning agent.