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Ceratech, Inc. recently introduced its Pavemend SLQ, a rapid-hardening, high early-strength material for patching and long term repair of concrete, masonry and structural asphalt surfaces. It was developed for urgent infrastructure repair scenarios where a one hour return to service is important.

Pavemend SLQ was engineered to address many of the constraints posed by traditional construction materials, including extreme weather applications, rapid return to service, ease of use, shrinkage, resistance to thermal expansion/contraction and long term durability. It offers aggressive bonding characteristics along with one-hour compressive strengths exceeding 3400 PSI, enabling repairs to be reloaded by wheeled vehicles in one hour and foot traffic in 20 minutes.  These features make SLQ suited for the repair of roads and bridges, airport runways and tarmacs, warehouses, manufacturing and industrial floors, post tension cable repairs and form and pour projects, among others.

Packaged in five gallon buckets to facilitate easy mixing, Pavemend SLQ is a single component powder that is water activated. Once activated, itbecomes a slurry mix that, when poured into the area to be repaired, bonds tenaciously to most construction materials, including steel. Unlike most repair products, it will bond to itself with no surface preparation, allowing for indefinite layering without cold joints.

Pavemend SLQ is used by US military forces worldwide for numerous strategic purposes, including force protection, aircraft runway and infrastructure repair applications.  Roadway potholes and craters created from IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) are quickly filled and eliminated as potential hiding places for new IEDs placed by insurgents. The extreme rapid hardening capabilities minimize the exposure to military personnel by reducing the time required to stand guard over “soft” repairs from hours to just minutes.

“From US Military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, to state DOT’s across the country, urgent infrastructure repair scenarios constantly demand one hour returns to service,” said Jon Hyman, Chief Executive Officer, CERATECH, Inc. “Pavemend SLQ, and all our Pavemend products, are answering that demand and redefining today’s longstanding industry standards.”

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