MC Bauchemie

Surface protection of concrete structures

Conventional coatings are often inadequate when it comes to satisfying a combination of different requirements – such as emphasising the character of the concrete, adding colour to a structure’s surfaces, providing anti-graffiti protection or additional crack bridging. With MC-Color, MC-Bauchemie has developed a completely new surface protection programme comprising three product lines and nine products. Each of these exhibits not only outstanding technical performance characteristics but also especially optimised application properties, thus ensuring that the right solutions can be found for...

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Issue 02/2015 Rampf

Interview: Precision surfaces, high color fidelity

The mold manufacturer Rampf has developed a coating system for tamper show surfaces. Sonja Schöntauf, on behalf of BFT International, talked with Rampf’s Managing Director Dr.-Ing. ­Peter Dauben...

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Fading concrete block surfaces –

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