CONCERA®

Enhanced movement and finishing

Increase Productivity with Concera®

From drycast to SCC mixes, CONCERA® can increase productivity, reduce costs, enhance workability and help achieve sustainability goals. This versatile, segregation-resistant concrete consistently flows and takes less labor to place and finish, compared to conventional concrete.

CONCERA® enhances your concrete mixes, helping your job progress more smoothly in any application.

With CONCERA®, you can develop traditional concrete mixes that reduce pump pressures, consolidate faster and finish easier. You can make control flow concrete for superior movement and placement. Or you can use versatile CONCERA® products to gain better closing and screeding surfaces for low-slump applications, like hand-applied curbs and machine-placed barrier walls.

Contractors: Accelerate Your Project

  • Accelerate project completion with concrete that’s easy to place and finish.
  • Improve safety by reducing the physical stress on workers and decreasing the vibration needed for concrete placement.
  • Use durable, high-quality concrete that builds customer trust.
  • Speed placement of low slump concrete applications such as machine barrier wall or hand curbs.
High Range Water Reducers

CONCERA® SA8080

CONCERA® SA8080 is a high efficiency polycarboxylate based linear dose water reducer and high range water reducing admixture. A unique formulation of polycarboxylate dispersants and rheology modifiers enables CONCERA® SA8080 to be successfully used in a wide variety of applications ranging from dry cast and zero slump mixes to highly flowable self-consolidating mixes. Throughout this diverse range of applications, CONCERA® SA8080 provides superior overall workability, rheology and finishability resulting in productivity improvements, excellent strength and durability properties.  CONCERA® SA8080 is supplied as a ready-to-use liquid that weighs approximately 8.65 lbs/gal (1.04kg/L). It does not contain intentionally added chlorides. CONCERA® SA8080 can be used to make self-consolidating concrete (SCC) with superior water tolerance and very high levels of workability without segregation. In addition, CONCERA® SA8080 produces SCC concrete that is less sticky and has improved finishability and form finish even when used in mix designs containing harsh aggregates. CONCERA® SA8080 can be used by itself or in conjunction with ADVA® products to achieve optimal properties.

Versatile Production Applications

  • Dry-cast, zero slump and low slump concrete that slides and compacts fast and efficiently. This improves cycle times and feed rates of curbing, barrier wall, pipe machines and hollow-core.
  • Conventional 3-8” (75 to 200mm) concrete with better movement under energy thereby allowing concrete to be floated and finished faster and easier.
  • Concrete with extremely high levels of workability without segregation typically ranging from 18-22” (460 to 560 mm), yet use conventional proportioned 3000-5000 psi (20-35 MPa) mixes.
  • Mixes that will pump, place and finish well using reduced cementitious and/or local materials like manufactured sands or recycled concrete.

 

Benefits of Using CONCERA®

Enhanced Finishability

the enhanced finishability and movement under energy creates easier placement under all slump conditions, leading to reduced labor and wear on workers

Better Pumpability

better pumpability speeds the placement process and reduces wear on the pump truck

Improved Strength

improved finishability and strengths allow for the reduction of cement and increased use of local manufactured sands resulting in the potential for co2 reduction

Faster Cycle Times

faster cycle times improve equipment efficiencies in curb and barrier wall as well as drycast