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Singapore’s Orchard Road is one of the city’s most coveted retail locations. Lend Lease Corporation, with well-defined sustainability initiatives, successfully acquired one of the last available sites on this iconic street to construct ...
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The American Concrete Institute (“ACI”) recently went on record with a published report recommending crystalline material class (PRAH-type) admixtures for applications where hydrostatic pressure is significant – a situation typically ...
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306,000 lbs. of Xypex Megamix ll were used to rehabilitate the Raccoon Creek Water Treatment Plant in Carrollton, GA. An engineering study determined that the superior bonding, chemical durability, and high strength of Megamix ll would ...
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All of us at Xypex Chemical Corporation extend our sincerest congratulations to Chan Ah Lam on being awarded this high profile award for years of commendable public service and achievement in Singapore. This much-deserved recognition ...
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The use of concrete as a design element has always appealed to architects. However, concern over water seepage, efflorescence and rebar corrosion has often held them back. Faced with this issue, Joseph Bellomo Architects used the crystalline ...
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Xypex was used to waterproof the concrete in the initial construction phase of the Santo Domingo Metro. Over 100,000 lbs (45,000 kg) of Xypex Admix C-1000 NF was installed in the concrete required by 15 km of tunnel construction.
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Xypex Crystalline Technology is well known worldwide for its reliability in waterproofing and protecting below grade concrete from ground water, high water tables and extreme hydrostatic pressure. Such were the concerns of the architects, ...
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Xypex is always interested in any opportunity to meet with the architects, engineers, contractors and concrete producers who have specified or expressed serious interest in our crystalline concrete waterproofing and protection technology. ...
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How Xypex Crystalline Technology can make concrete better for Architects is now available in a new, fully accredited, easy-to-follow online course at Hanley Wood University’s learning center.
Titled, “Concrete Waterproofing with ...
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Bert Korteling has joined Xypex as Regional Manager for the North and Mid-Atlantic States which include New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia. He is an active member of the Metropolitan New York Chapter ...
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Since joining Xypex some nine months ago, Jim Caruth, P.Eng, has embraced his role as Manager of Technical Services to great success. In this short time, Jim’s experience and expertise have clearly come to the fore and we at Xypex ...
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Xypex Admix C-1000 was used to waterproof and protect the below-grade concrete slab and elevator pits of this 28-storey skyscraper. Xypex Concentrate Dry-Pac was then installed in all floor-wall joints followed by a slurry coat application ...
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The Academy of Science in San Francisco, designed by Renzo Piano emphasizes light, fluidity and transparency and incorporates a 2.5 acre Living Roof, recycled and natural materials, and a photovoltaic 'solar halo' which provides a ...
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Xypex Admix C-500, with its unique crystalline technology, was chosen instead of traditional membranes as the preferred concrete waterproofing and protection solution for the entire 3-story, below-grade parking garage and elevator ...
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Chris Miller has recently joined Xypex as Director of International Development and will be responsible for worldwide business outside of North America. Chris holds a Degree in International Business Administration and has over 20 ...
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Xypex was pleased to be selected by Penta-Ocean Construction Co. Ltd. as the specified concrete waterproofing product for another of their major construction projects: the prestigious 61,300 m2 ION Orchard retail mall in Singapore's ...
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More than 25,000 lbs. of Xypex Concentrate was used to protect the concrete breakwater at Sempra Energy's Energia Costa Azul LNG Receiving Terminal 14 miles north of Ensenada, Baja California. Xypex Crystalline Technology was chosen ...
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Xypex Recognized for Excellence in the Repair of The Macomb Sewer System
The International Concrete Repair Institute (ICRI) is a 22 year old organization whose statement of purpose is "to improve the quality of concrete restoration, ...
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Remarks by President Obama concerning:
"NEW CONCRETE MATERIALS THAT LAST LONGER AND ARE WATERPROOFED FROM THE INSIDE OUT..."
At a press conference on July 2nd, 2009 in the Rose Garden of The White House, President Obama, ...
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When the office space called 409 and 499 Illinois was planned for San Francisco’s Mission Bay area, it faced considerable waterproofing challenges. Two six-story towers were to be constructed over a three-level subterranean parking ...
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Lehigh University Recommends Xypex to Waterproof and Protect Concrete Spillway
Built in the early 1950s, the old Lyman Run Dam at the 595-acre state park near Galeton experienced seepage and leakage almost since its construction. ...
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In the cold, clear dawn of September 10, ten climbers in support of the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia climbed the last ridgeline to stand on the 19,340-foot summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, the roof of Africa. Xypex was proud to ...
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Washington State Department of Transportation Specifies Xypex Admix to Waterproof Pedestrian Tunnel
Once again, Xypex crystalline technology has been specified and used to waterproof and protect the concrete of a major tunneling ...
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We don’t always wave our green, environment-friendly flag, but Xypex, and its family of crystalline concrete waterproofing products have always had a warm relationship with their surroundings. Being There in more than seventy countries ...
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Xypex Admix Specified to Waterproof Pre-Cast Culvert Boxes As part of its two-year program to upgrade the city’s sewers, drains and pipes, the Boston Water and Sewer Commission approved the use of Xypex Admix C-500 as the concrete ...
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In a world where faster often means better, a massive project now nearing completion in Japan – and one that incorporates Xypex products to protect its sensitive integrity – is about ready to push the limit on speed.
The Japan Proton ...
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Project Engineer Specifies Xypex to Protect Podium for Beijing Olympics "Bird's Nest" Stadium
In major sports venues around the world, Xypex is scoring big. Olympian big! In 2000, Xypex products played an important part in the waterproofing ...
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Xypex Specified to Waterproof and Protect Concrete and Reinforcing Steel
The Second Orinoco River Bridge in Venezuela, is viewed by the government as the country’s most important infrastructure project of recent years. The bridge ...
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Visit us at Booth S-13231 where we will happily show you how Xypex crystalline technology is used around the world, and why it is specified by architects, engineers and contractors to solve the most demanding concrete waterproofing ...
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Click here to take the course. As part of its distance-learning program, Xypex, through AEC daily, now offers Architects an alternate way of learning about Xypex crystalline technology and its ever-expanding role in the field of concrete ...
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Processing wastewater from big cities is a persistent economic, engineering, and ecological challenge. Wastewater is loaded with aggressive chemicals that can seriously damage the surrounding environment and, at the same time, degrade ...
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The animal kingdom of zoos and aquariums has long been the beneficiary of Xypex crystalline technology: orangutans in Germany; gorillas in Australia; beluga whales in Chicago; elephants in California; and all kinds of piscine inhabitants ...
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As trade show veterans since 1980, Xypex has seen its share of interested industry crowds, but never in the numbers that visited our booth at the World of Concrete show in Las Vegas this January. As an exhibiting participant, we were ...
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The sharing of technical knowledge within the worldwide Xypex family is an ongoing program. It happens daily in the course of doing business, when every project presents new challenges, when the experience of years around the globe ...
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In any endeavour, convenience counts for a lot. In the Xypex Admix business, convenience comes in a water-soluble bag – which proves to be a time-saving and money-saving winner.For more than a year, Xypex has been attracting customers ...
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In a honeycomb of caves and tunnels beneath the rolling countryside of California’s Napa and Sonoma Valleys, a wine industry has found cool new real estate to make great tastes and more profitable business possible. In a twist on tunneling, ...
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The Panama Canal is an engineering and economic miracle. Since 1914, it has been a conduit of world importance, providing a link between two great oceans, a passageway annually for more than 14,000 vessels carrying more than 200 million ...
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Because of severe winter conditions and the extensive use of de-icing chemicals, the concrete median barriers and retaining walls of the Pennsylvania Turnpike were deteriorating at a very fast rate. After rigorous testing and evaluation ...
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Processing wastewater for Rio de Janeiro, a city of more than 11 million people, is a persistent economic and engineering challenge. But Rio thinks big, and in seven mammoth plants around Guanamara Bay, the Brazilian city is tackling ...
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Venues for sport have inspired the imaginative best in architecture around the world, and Xypex Crystalline Technology has been specified to protect concrete in the proudest of installations. The sweeping, slouch-hat shape of Sydney’s ...
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Great architecture often shines best when it imitates, or becomes part of its natural surroundings. And there can be few places anywhere where this is better demonstrated than on the bank of the Singapore River—the totally spectacular ...
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The Bank of China headquarters in Beijing, designed by Pei Partnership Architects, is a magnificent new reflection of economic change in this populous country. In the heart of the city, the bank is one of China’s most architecturally ...
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