BASF Launches Concrete Admixture Solutions For Sustainable Construction in ASEAN
• Debut of sureTEC and Glenium® 8008
• New admixture innovations with improved workability & durability
Singapore, November 07, 2007 – BASF's Construction Chemicals Business Unit today unveiled two new innovative admixture solutions - sureTEC (Super Retention Technology) and Glenium® 8008 UHS (Ultra High Strength) – to meet the ever-increasing demands for improved efficiency and durability, in terms of overall construction process and finished concrete structure.
"Innovation is the essence of our success. As a leader in the construction chemicals industry, we at BASF are glad to offer innovative products and solutions that enable our customers to meet the needs of sustainable construction," said Dr. Boris Gorella, Group Vice President and head of BASF's Construction Chemicals Business Unit, Asia Pacific.
"To leverage on our research and development capabilities to help our customers cope with new challenges is the way ahead for our construction chemicals division to generate more business in Asia Pacific, in order to double its global sales by 2015," added Dr. Gorella.
Recent years have seen an emerging megatrend for a sustainable construction industry which requires faster processes, higher durability, less energy and resource consumption in both construction process and ongoing maintenance.
"The new products will assist our customers to meet their sustainability targets by improving workability of their construction operations, as well as energy efficiency and durability of the finished structures," stated Dr. Gorella.
Developed with a focus on sustainable construction, sureTEC, represents a major evolutionary milestone in admixture innovation. sureTEC, which stands for Super Retention Technology, delivers a new benchmark in concrete workability, enabling concrete producers to gain control over workability between the batching plant and the placement site for two hours or more – far beyond previously known levels. It enables concrete producers to consistently provide a specified workability of concrete, even in hot weather, and regardless of unfavourable external factors such as traffic conditions and site access make it difficult to estimate the time window between batching and placement of the concrete.
Available as a 'standalone' admixture, or as a premixed 'in-product' additive with selected BASF admixtures, sureTEC can provide outstanding quality control and consistency across concrete batches which, in turn, assures a high consistency of workmanship – a major prerequisite for long life-cycle construction. Thanks to its outstanding performance, the newly launched sureTEC has been specified in the exciting construction projects including Resorts World at Sentosa and Ipoh-Padang Besar Double Track in Malaysia.
Glenium® 8008 Ultra High Strength (UHS) concrete admixtures utilizes the latest in high performance polymer technology, with the unique formulation that delivers concrete mixes with final strengths of over 100MPa.
The ability to produce Ultra High Strength concrete is seen as a critical factor in urban and inner-city areas where ground space is scarce and expensive. By allowing lean design structures with smaller and fewer columns as well as wider spans, UHS concrete can play a major role in assisting designers and architects to enlarge room space and maximise the usable floor area.