Presentation History Activity Group Location Logistics and Transportation Business Facilities Products Sustainability Contact Customer access Spanish version Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA (BASA) , a company backed by more than a century of experience in the sector, focuses its industrial activity on the distillation of coal tar from the coke batteries of the main European steel groups. After its acquisition in 1990 by the company Fábrica de Productos Químicos, SA (SANA), the group has carried out an important technological renovation of its plants in order to improve and expand all its production processes and to equip itself with the appropriate means to face strong competition from the sector. A process of continuous improvement, based on the modernization and qualification of the human team, fully adapted to the modern technologies that exist in the market. The distillery is located in Lutxana-Barakaldo, 5 kilometers from Bilbao, on the Left Bank of the Bilbao Estuary, an industrial area linked to the development of the Spanish heavy industry. Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA © 2013 - Legal Notice - Development: Motiva Group .

Continuous Distillation Discontinuous Distillation Solidification of Brea Naphthalene Crystallization Solidification of Naphthalene Business Facilities Products Sustainability Contact Customer access Spanish version Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA focuses its activity on the fractional distillation of coal tar, using two facilities: continuous distillation batch distillation. The same process is developed in both facilities and the reason for their coexistence is only to have flexibility in production. As a result of this tar distillation process, several products are obtained: - Pits , basically intended for the aluminum and graphite industry. - Naphthalene , a product with innumerable applications, such as colorants, superplasticizer, etc. - Creosotes , used in the treatment of wood. - Oils , mainly for the manufacture of carbon black, and other derivatives. - Special tars for obtaining waterproofing, refractory, etc. Diagram 1. Main existing facilities in Bilbaína de Alquitranes In addition to the production process plants, BASA has environmental management facilities: Thermal oxidation plant Industrial water treatment plants Rainwater treatment plant. Bilbaína de Alquitranes, SA © 2013 - Legal Notice - Development: Motiva Group .

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