In August 2024, ZOOMLINE’s 10TPH automatic bitumen bag decanter was installed and commissioned at a project site in Jordan, successfully entering stable commercial operation. As an automated bitumen melting solution tailored to the high-temperature operating conditions of the Middle East, this system specifically addresses the industry pain points in Jordan associated with traditional bagged bitumen melting—namely, low efficiency, high labor costs, and inconsistent product quality. Since commencing operations, the bag bitumen melting equipment has demonstrated stable performance, a high degree of automation, and outstanding overall benefits, earning high recognition and positive feedback from the end customer in Jordan. This successful implementation not only helped the customer achieve an automated upgrade in asphalt production but also laid a crucial practical foundation for the widespread adoption of automation in Jordan’s asphalt processing technology and the intelligent upgrading of the industry, establishing itself as a benchmark case for automated asphalt production lines for small and medium-sized enterprises in the Middle East.
Prior to the implementation of automated bitumen equipment, local bagged bitumen processing in Jordan generally relied on traditional manual melting methods, which served as a core bottleneck constraining the development of local road infrastructure and the bitumen manufacturing industry. A large number of bitumen processing plants have long faced four major production challenges: high reliance on manual labor, low production efficiency, high operating costs, and unstable asphalt quality. These issues made it impossible to meet the standardized and large-scale production requirements of modern engineering projects.
The traditional bitumen bag melting process required manual completion of the entire workflow—including bag removal, material feeding, auxiliary temperature control, and manual unloading—which was a cumbersome process requiring significant labor input. Manual operation not only limits production capacity—making it difficult to meet the demands of continuous production—but also results in significant errors in temperature control and measurement. This makes it highly prone to quality issues such as incomplete bitumen melting, localized overheating, premature aging, and batch-to-batch variations, rendering the finished asphalt unsuitable for Jordan’s high-standard municipal road and highway infrastructure specifications.
At the same time, the local Jordanian market lacks integrated, automated bitumen bag melting machine suitable for the region’s hot and dry climate. Traditional bitumen bag decanter equipment available on the market has limited functionality, low automation levels, poor adaptability to operating conditions, and high failure rates, making it difficult to achieve standardized and intelligent production. Given these industry challenges, the client’s core upgrade requirements are clear: to replace traditional manual production lines and enhance the level of automation across the entire bitumen processing workflow—including loading, unloading, melting, storage, and discharge. The goal is to reduce labor costs while achieving precise and controllable bitumen quality and a stable increase in production capacity, thereby establishing a standardized and automated bitumen processing system.
Taking into account Jordan’s high-temperature, arid operating conditions, the production capacity of small- and medium-sized bitumen processing plants, and local industrial upgrading needs, ZOOMLINE’s custom-developed 10TPH automatic bitumen bag decanter system precisely meets local market demands. With four core advantages—production capacity alignment, fully automated operation, compatibility with end-to-end processes, and comprehensive service support—it has become the client’s preferred solution for equipment upgrades.
With a rated bitumen melting capacity of 10 metric tons per hour, the system is highly suited to the daily production loads of small and medium-sized bitumen processing plants in Jordan. It prevents idle capacity and waste while fully meeting the demands for continuous, routine bitumen melting, storage, and feeding. It perfectly aligns with local small- and medium-scale infrastructure projects and batch production scenarios, offering exceptional practicality and value for money.
The complete system integrates a full range of automated functions—including automatic feeding, hydraulic sealing, temperature-controlled and constant-temperature melting, high-precision flow metering, and automated unloading—to achieve fully automated operations throughout the entire process: from bag-removal and melting to heat retention, storage, and metered discharge. The process requires minimal manual intervention, completely revolutionizing Jordan’s traditional, labor-intensive production model and truly realizing unmanned, intelligent bitumen processing.
Designed to withstand Jordan’s extreme outdoor conditions—characterized by year-round high temperatures, dryness, and frequent sandstorms—the bag bitumen melting machine has undergone specialized structural and performance upgrades. It features high-temperature resistance, drought tolerance, dust resistance, corrosion resistance, and a low failure rate. Capable of continuous, stable 24-hour operation in harsh outdoor environments, ZOOMLINE 10ton bitumen bag decanter exhibits minimal operational wear and a long service life. Perfectly adapted to the unique production environments of the Middle East, it resolves the industry-wide challenge of standard equipment failing to adapt to local conditions and suffering frequent breakdowns.
ZOOMLINE provides overseas engineering clients with full-lifecycle turnkey services, covering the entire process from preliminary site surveys and customized solutions to precision factory manufacturing, cross-border logistics, standardized on-site installation and commissioning, technical training for operators, and post-commissioning maintenance and after-sales support. Dedicated one-on-one coordination throughout the process simplifies client interactions, ensuring rapid project implementation, successful one-time commissioning, and smooth transition to profitable production.
Project Location: Jordan
Official Commissioning Date: August 2024
Core Equipment: 10TPH Automated Bitumen Bag Melting System
This automated bitumen bag decanter employs a standardized closed-loop operating procedure. With streamlined processes, stable operation, and high controllability, it ensures consistent bitumen melting quality and production efficiency throughout the entire process.
First, bagged bitumen material is hoisted to the equipment’s feed inlet via a crane. Combined with an intelligent hydraulic automatic door, this system is simple to operate and provides excellent sealing, effectively preventing material spillage and dust leakage while ensuring a clean production environment.
Second, the system is equipped with an intelligent thermal oil heating system that provides uniform and stable heat, precisely maintaining the melting temperature at the optimal process temperature of 150°C. This ensures thorough and uniform melting of the bitumen, thereby preventing quality issues such as incomplete melting and high-temperature degradation.
Furthermore, the molten bitumen is transported via a dedicated corrosion-resistant bitumen pump to a temperature-controlled storage tank for heat retention, stabilizing the bitumen’s physical properties and preventing performance degradation caused by cooling and solidification.
Finally, based on construction and production requirements, the temperature-controlled bitumen is discharged via an intelligent unloading platform, precisely metered using a high-precision flowmeter, and loaded into bitumen transport tankers, completing the fully automated production process.
The entire automated bitumen bag decanter consists of six core modules working in concert: the automated bitumen melting unit, the intelligent thermal oil heating system, the corrosion-resistant bitumen transfer pump, the temperature-controlled bitumen storage tank, the automated intelligent unloading platform, and the high-precision flow metering system. The performance of each module is precisely matched to ensure seamless coordination, creating a comprehensive, efficient, and stable automated bitumen melting and transfer system. This project progressed efficiently from equipment shipment and on-site installation through commissioning and production launch. It met all standards during the initial commissioning and achieved stable mass production on schedule, with the project’s results far exceeding the client’s expectations.
Since production began in August 2024, the ZOOMLINE 10TPH automatic bitumen bag melting machine has been operating continuously and stably at the site in Jordan. It has achieved comprehensive breakthroughs across four key dimensions—improved production efficiency, reduced labor costs, guaranteed asphalt quality, and stable equipment operation—creating tangible production value and economic benefits for the client.
The bitumen bag decanter equipment operates fully automatically and unmanned throughout the entire process, completely replacing the inefficient traditional methods of manual bag removal, melting, and unloading. This has significantly shortened the production cycle per batch and completely resolved the pain points of labor-constrained capacity and low efficiency. The bag bitumen melting machine can operate continuously without interruption, effectively improving the overall efficiency of bitumen loading, unloading, and melting operations. It helps the client achieve large-scale, batch production and fully meets the material demands of local infrastructure projects.
The highly automated operating mode drastically streamlines the on-site workforce, significantly reducing comprehensive operational costs such as labor wages, on-site management, and personnel scheduling. In the long term, the bag bitumen melting machine’s automated production sustainably reduces the enterprise’s labor input, optimizes the production cost structure, and significantly enhances the enterprise’s production profitability and market competitiveness.
Relying on an intelligent constant-temperature control system and high-precision flow measurement devices, the 10ton bitumen bad decanter achieves precise, constant-temperature melting at 150°C and accurate, metered discharge, effectively eliminating melting defects and batch-to-batch variations caused by manual operation. Each batch of bitumen meets uniform discharge specifications and delivers consistent performance; the finished product fully complies with local Jordanian road construction standards. This fundamentally resolves the issue of inconsistent bitumen quality associated with traditional processes, enabling customers to secure high-standard infrastructure projects.
The bag bitumen melting machine’s structure, specifically optimized for Jordan’s hot, dry outdoor environment, can withstand harsh conditions such as prolonged exposure to high temperatures, sandstorms, and intense sunlight. It supports long-term, continuous, uninterrupted production with an extremely low failure rate. Simple daily maintenance and a longer service life effectively reduce equipment downtime losses and future maintenance costs, ensuring the production line’s stable, round-the-clock operation.
This video features authentic footage from the Jordan project site, fully documenting the entire production process of the 10TPH bitumen bag melting machine including automated feeding, constant-temperature melting, constant-temperature storage, precise metering, and unloading. It vividly demonstrates the equipment’s fully automated operation, standardized production processes, and stable performance, providing real-world validation of the ZOOMLINE bitumen bag decanter’s practical capabilities and technical advantages. The video clearly illustrates the project’s implementation results, offering a credible, on-site reference for clients in the Middle East seeking to upgrade or build new bitumen processing lines.
After several months of routine and stable operation, our Jordanian partner has given high praise to the ZOOMLINE 10TPH automatic bitumen bag melting machine and the complete service system, and the project has received an excellent reputation.
The client explicitly stated that this automated bitumen bag decanter has completely resolved the core pain points of traditional bitumen melting—namely, low efficiency, high costs, and inconsistent quality. The bitumen bag melting machine operates stably, is easy to operate, and requires minimal maintenance. It has comprehensively optimized the company’s previously rudimentary production processes, resulting in a qualitative improvement in production efficiency and significantly alleviating pressure on project production capacity.
At the same time, the bag bitumen melting machine’s precise temperature control and flow metering functions have enabled standardized quality management of the finished bitumen, significantly increasing the product’s pass rate. This has helped the company successfully win bids and complete local road construction projects meeting high standards, thereby significantly enhancing its brand competitiveness in Jordan’s infrastructure market. These multiple improvements in production capacity, quality, and efficiency fully demonstrate the robust performance and professional service capabilities of ZOOMLINE bitumen melting machine, laying a solid foundation for long-term, in-depth cooperation between both parties.
The successful implementation and stable operation of this 10TPH automated bitumen bag melting machine in Jordan is not merely a case of equipment upgrading for a single enterprise; it also holds significant demonstrative value and industry-wide implications for the intelligent transformation of the bitumen processing sector in Jordan and the broader Middle East.
This project has completely broken away from the traditional, labor-intensive, and extensive production model on which Jordan’s bitumen industry has long relied, establishing a benchmark for localized, automated, standardized, and intelligent bitumen production. This mature automated solution, validated under real-world operating conditions, has accumulated valuable local operational, maintenance, and production experience, laying a solid practical foundation for the comprehensive promotion of automated bitumen processing technology and the advancement of industrial upgrading in Jordan.
At the same time, the project has provided numerous local Jordanian bitumen producers and road construction companies with replicable and implementable solutions for improving efficiency, reducing costs, and enhancing quality. It has effectively helped the local bitumen industry break free from the constraints of inefficient, energy-intensive, non-standardized, and extensive development models, accelerating the industry’s transition toward high efficiency, low cost, high quality, and standardization, and continuously supporting the high-quality and sustainable development of Jordan’s infrastructure sector.
As a manufacturer with years of deep industry expertise specializing in asphalt mixing plants and bitumen processing equipment, ZOOMLINE focuses on the R&D, production, and iterative upgrading of integrated equipment for bitumen bag-removal, melting, constant-temperature storage, and metered discharge. With extensive experience in implementing projects in the Middle East and other overseas markets, the company boasts mature core technologies and outstanding adaptability to various operating conditions.
Based on our clients’ production capacity requirements, site conditions, and production processes, we can customize automatic bitumen bag melting equipment in various specifications—including 5TPH, 10TPH, and 20TPH. We also support personalized configurations for bagged and drummed bitumen processing equipment, providing a one-stop, turnkey solution that covers everything from solution design, equipment production, customization and modification, cross-border shipping, on-site installation and commissioning, technical training, to lifetime after-sales maintenance and operation.
Leveraging extensive hands-on experience with high-temperature projects in the Middle East, ZOOMLINE’s bitumen melting machine is highly adapted to the region’s hot, dry, and sandy climate. It offers core advantages such as stable operation, strong adaptability, high cost-effectiveness, and convenient maintenance, comprehensively meeting the production line upgrade and new construction needs of our overseas clients.
To address the needs of bitumen producers, road construction contractors, and infrastructure engineering companies in Jordan and the Middle East for automated upgrades to bitumen melting machine and the establishment of new production lines, ZOOMLINE offers one-on-one, customized solutions for bitumen bag decanter and bitumen drum decanter, including free equipment selection consultations, personalized project design, and exclusive factory quotations.
Whether you plan to build a new automated bitumen melting line, upgrade outdated manual equipment, optimize production processes, reduce operating costs, or improve the quality of finished bitumen products, feel free to contact us at any time. ZOOMLINE is equipped with a professional overseas technical service team that provides round-the-clock technical support and cross-border after-sales service, helping Middle Eastern customers achieve automated upgrades in bitumen processing, efficiently increase production, reduce costs, and improve quality, thereby continuously creating greater production benefits and market value.
