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Product innovations

Product innovation

Based on market and customer requirements we continually develop new cements, special building materials, concretes and services. In addition to new product developments, we are also active in the areas of further development, system/process development and basic research. We work hand in hand with universities (currently 17 cooperation partners), our cement and concrete labs and the technology centre.

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Product innovations

New insulation and light-weight concretes

Advantage/customer benefit:

  • Simple, monolithic insulation system of mineral components
  • Surface can remain unplastered
  • Heat storage
  • Aesthetic
  • Easy to produce
  • Easy to recycle
  • Mineral based

Areas of use: High-quality residential construction

Background:
Energy savings – resource production - established building method
Development of an optimal material together with approval.

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Product innovations

Acid-resistant concretes

Our Duracrete® basic

Advantage/customer benefit:

  • Coating-free construction components in agricultural construction or sewage systems
  • Simple, monolithic construction components with high resistance to acid.
  • Low-maintenance and durable

Areas of use: Biogas systems, concrete pipes, etc.

Background:
Organic acids (lactic acid, acetic acid) may damage concrete. Therefore, plastic coatings are often used in the area of sewage and agricultural construction.

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Product innovations

3D-printing – Unreinforced, bending tensile strength concretes

In cooperation with the Uni Augsburg we develop new, bending tensile strength concretes with short carbon fibres.

Advantage/customer benefit:

  • Saving steel reinforcements, new manufacturing technologies for demanding prefabricated parts
  • Optimal material for applications in 3D-print production

Areas of use: Extruded prefabricated parts (3D-print)

Background:
New technologies for formwork and reinforcement-free construction and prefabricated parts.

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Product innovations

Celitement

We currently cooperate with the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) to develop Celitements: new cements with unique workpieces and 40-50% CO2 saving.

Advantage/customer benefit:

  • Mono phase binder with lower hydration heat,
  • High early strengths
  • High durability

Areas of use: Prefabricated parts – plasters – mortars – aerated concrete – fibre cement panels - concrete goods and special building materials

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Product innovations

Alternative procedures for concrete recycling

Electrodynamic fragmentation of waste concrete (ELDYNTON)

In cooperation with Fraunhofer Institut für Bauphysik

Advantage/customer benefit:

  • Efficient recovery of individual components
  • Dust- and contamination-free crushing and grinding
  • Recycled aggregate has the same quality as natural aggregate.

Areas of use of the recyc. cement stone: Raw meal substitute in clinker production