navigation search lake asphalt of trinidad and tobago type state owned industry asphalt founded 1851 headquarters trinidad key people garry solomon ceo website www.trinidadlakeasphalt.com lake asphalt operations at pitch lake 2011 lake asphalt of trinidad and tobago is a company based in la brea in trinidad involved in the mining processing and exporting of asphalt products from the pitch lake . contents 1 history 2 operations 3 references 4 external links history edit the business was founded in 1851 by the tenth earl of dundonald who took out a patent for the use of asphalt from the lake at la brea . 1 j.w. previte and a.l barber later joined the team and in 1888 secured a 21 year concession for the exploitation of the lake . 1 in 1949 the business was renamed the trinidad lake asphalt company . 1 ownership remained with the previte company based in the uk which comprised a network approximately 24 public companies around the world through which the asphalt was sold . 2 the limmer & trinidad lake asphalt company became the first contractor to use asphalt from the lake for road surfacing . 1 in the early 1970s the uk market switched to coal tar asphalt became a much less popular product and the government of trinidad and tobago took ownership of the asphalt extraction business in 1978 . 1 operations edit asphalt from the lake is currently sold throughout the world as a modifier for refinery bitumen . 2 references edit a b c d e history of the company lake asphalt of trinidad and tobago a b first magazine lake asphalt of trinidad and tobago external links edit official trinidad lake asphalt website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lake asphalt of trinidad and tobago & oldid 731061242 categories mining companiesgovernment owned companies of trinidad and tobagoasphalt lakesenvironment of trinidad and tobagonon renewable resource companies established in 18511851 establishments in the british empire1850s establishments in the caribbean navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 july 2016 at 17 57 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view