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drymix.info Newsletter 175/2016; ISSN Number 1613-0111; 08. February 2016

1. Third Australia Drymix Mortar Meeting, 18. February 2016, Brighton Beach, NSW
2. Second Philippine Drymix Mortar Meeting and Formation of PhilDMMA, Manila Polo Club, 15. March 2016
3. 5th American Drymix Mortar Conference admmc five, Philadelphia, PA, May 3, 2016
4. Announcing: Argentina Drymix Mortar Meeting, Buenos Aires (28. June 2016)
5. SEADMA Nominates Tan Kim Song to Join Regulatory Body in Singapore
6. Sika Opens New Mortar Plant in Greece
7. CED-RUS Joins drymix.info as Manufacturing Partner
8. Doubrava Becomes Part of Christof Industries
9. Restructuring at Haver&Boecker and BTW-Binder

1. Third Australia Drymix Mortar Meeting, 18. February 2016, Brighton Beach, NSW

The Third Australia Drymix Mortar Meeting takes place on Thursday, 18. February 2016 at Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach (at Brighton Le Sands, not far from Sydney International Airport). The evening before, on Wednesday, 17. February 2016, 19:30 a Delegate Welcome takes place along with the pre-check-in. This evening is sponsored in part by Wacker Chemie and Construction Technologies Australia (CTA), thanks a lot! For a detailed programme and registration as delegate, please refer to www.drymix.info.

Hotel Accomodation: Novotel Sydney Brighton Beach has granted us a group rate, which is AU$ 229 for single occupancy (breakfast not included). Please book soon, this offer is only based upon room availability. When booking the room (by phone 02 9556 5111 or online at www.novotelbrightonbeach.com.au), please mention the following Promotional Code: INT020216.

Admission for the meeting is 210 €, reduced for drymix.info members to 180 €. The specially reduced admission for drymix mortar manufacturers is only 110 €. Online registration is available through our drymix.info shop (Visa or Mastercard required). All Delegates should please make sure that their admission has been paid for prior to our event.

2. Second Philippine Drymix Mortar Meeting and Inception of PhilDMMA, Manila Polo Club, 15. March 2016

Attention: due to Worldbex, a Building and Construction Fair in Manila, we have moved the date to 15. March, international visitors can of course also visit Worldbex, which starts on 16. March and runs until 20. March 2016.

The Philippine Drymix Mortar Manufacturer's Association PhilDMMA and drymix.info are happy to announce the Second Philippine Drymix Mortar Meeting. The event, featuring technical lectures and the formal inception of PhilDMMA takes place at Manila Polo Club on 15. March 2016. The programme (see below) will be moderated by Ferdinand Leopolder and the formation ceremony will be led by Axel Brandner, Founding President of PhilDMMA.

On behalf of SEADMA and PhilDMMA we are of course welcoming support by the raw materials industry for this important event, please enquire with us.

Lecturing Programme
Axel Brandner, Phil DMMA: Inception of The Philippine Drymix Mortar Manufacturer's Association
Ferdinand Leopolder: Automation of Mortar Mixing and Conveying on Jobsites
Hongfang Chen, Kerneos: (woorking title) Shrinkage Compensation in Drymix Mortars
Malik Jamal, Wacker Chemie: Installation of Large Format Tiles
Matthias Gelber, Maleki (Malaysia): Sustainable Solutions for Building Materials
(lecturer tbd.): Concrete Renovation and Infrastructure Repair

Admission for The Second Philippine Drymix Mortar Meeting is 600 € for Industry Observers, reduced to 480 € per person for SEADMA or drymix.info members (includes certain sponsoring rights, please enquire with us). Drymix mortar manufacturers pay only 60 € (first person free of charge for PhilDMMA member companies). Online registration is available through our drymix.info shop (Visa or Mastercard required).

3. The 5th American Drymix Mortar Conference admmc five, Philadelphia, PA, May 3, 2016

For the fifth time, drymix.info is organizing The American Drymix Mortar Conference. admmc five will take place at The Wagner Free Institute of Science (a historic site near Temple University), 1700 West Montgomery Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19121. This is NOT a hotel, we recommend our Delegates to find accomodation in Northern Downtown or around Penn's Landing. We published the programme in our last Newsletter, an updated version is available from our website, where you can also find a recommendation list of Hotels (all not nearby, sorry).

Admission for the admmc five is 420 €, reduced for drymix.info members to 365 €. The specially reduced admission for drymix mortar manufacturers is only 255 €. Online registration is available through our drymix.info shop (Visa or Mastercard required).

4. Announcing: Argentina Drymix Mortar Meeting, Buenos Aires (28. June 2016)

After multiple requests from within the industry (and also reflecting the success of our meeting in México City 2015), drymix.info has decided to stage a meeting in Buenos Aires for the Spanish speaking mortar community in Southern South America. Most of the lectures will be held in Spanish, simultaneous translations of the English lectures will be provided for. This event is specifically geared towards drymix mortar experts from Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay and of course Argentina, the second largest market for drymix mortars in South America. We expect companies interested to make a presentation to send us their proposals before 28. February 2016 - and of course we are hoping for industry support in terms of sponsoring, too.

The exact date will be determined within February, and we will publish the conference location once Carnaval is over (it is hard to get a quotation theses days ;-)...

5. SEADMA Nominates Tan Kim Song to Join Regulatory Body in Singapore

Currently, the Republic of Singapore is revising its Code of Practice for the Painting of Buildings (revision of SS 542 : 2008). Responsible for this process is The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board (SPRING Singapore), which has in turn entrusted Singapore Chemical Industry Council Limited (SCIC) to carry out the process. With drymix mortars such as renders and skim coats being the basis for both exterior and interior painting SCIC has asked The South East Asia Drymix Mortar Association SEADMA to nominate an expert into the working group. Mr. Tan Kim Song, reknowned expert on drymix mortars with focus on renders (plasters) and skim coats works since over 20 years with Eastern Pretech (today E-Mix, a member of SEADMA) and can be clearly named as one of the drymix mortar pioneers on Singapore or even the entire SEA region. SEADMA is glad that he accepted this important assignment and we are sure he will influence the revision of SS 542 positively.

6. Sika Opens New Mortar Plant in Greece

Sika AG of Baar, Switzerland, has announced the startup of a new drymix mortar plant in Kryoneri, near Athens. The new mortar production unit is said to have a capacity of 20.000 tons per year. The investment also includes a mortar laboratory as well as a logistics hub for Sika's concrete admixtures business for Southern Greece (Sika already operates a concrete admixture plant in Thessaloniki). In the future, a plant for liquid products such as waterproofing membranes in planned at the same site.

7. CEDRUS Joins drymix.info as Manufacturing Partner

The Russian drymix mortar manufacturer Cedrus, Moscow, has recently decided to join drymix.info as manufacturing partner. The company, founded in 1998, operates three fully automated high-capacity drymix mortar plants, one multi-line plant in Kolumna, near Moscow, the other two near Krasnodar in Southern Russia. Cedrus is manufacturing products based upon cement as well as on gypsum (for indoor wall plastering) and markets these products under the tradenames Osnovit, Indastro, Stroybrig and Mater-garz.

We warmly welcome Cedrus to our community

8. Doubrava Becomes Part of Christof Industries

Recently, Doubrava GmbH, Wels, Austria (along with the holding FMT Group, Austria) has been taken over by Christof Industries GmbH, Graz Austria. Christof Group of Companies  employs in excess of 1.500 people and has activities in Industrial Plants, Industry Services, Oilfield Services as well as Energy and Environment (especially on renewable energies focusing on “Waste to Energy”) on a global level. Doubrava, a long-standing member of drymix.info is specialized on drymix mortar plants as well as industrial conveying units for the mining and aggregate industries.

9. Restructuring at both Haver&Boecker and BTW-Binder

drymix.info members Haver&Boecker OHG, Oelde, Germany and BT-Wolfgang Binder GmbH, Gleisdorf, Austria have recently restructured their activities:

Haver&Boecker has announced the formation of Haver Automation GmbH & Co. KG (Münster, Germany), where the company bundles its acitvities in the field of plant automation, integration of units to reflect the entire process (transport, storage, mixing, filling, packaging, palletizing, and loading of bulk materials and fluids).

BTW Binders new division has been named BTW Plant Solutions and focusses on the production processes sand mining and screening, bulk conveying and storage, dosing weighing and mixing and downstream processing. It also includes sorting technologies for bulk goods.

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