Admixtures

Market expanding rapidly with growth driven by infrastructure demand, sustainability efforts, and innovative product solutions

Acquisition aims to expand Saint-Gobain's presence in construction chemicals worldwide

Concrete admixture manufacturer Oscrete's employees went back to school to work on the grounds at a local primary school

Stuart Manning, Technical Director, Shotcrete Services - Shotcrete Services is renowned for its expertise in sprayed concrete design and construction, in both civil engineering and tunnelling industries completing high-profile projects. Stuart shares his latest pioneering research with an overview on the use of GGBS combined with powdered accelerator to reduce embodied carbon within accelerated sprayed concrete. 

Ian Riley, CEO, World Cement Association - We have become used to the idea that concrete has a large carbon footprint, but does that really have to be the case? Ian argues that we already know how to make concrete with much lower carbon footprint and significantly better resource efficiency. We are seeing innovation progress in 4 key areas and taken together these developments offer the prospect that for at least some applications we may be able to reach carbon neutrality or even net sequestration of CO2.

Concrete admixture manufacturer increases shareholding in NI distributor Adcrete.