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drymix.info Newsletter 227/2019; ISSN Number 1613-0111; 14. October 2019

1. Remembering Dr. Giorgio Squinzi
2. Newly Published: Drymix Mortar Yearbook 3D Special - Order it now!
3. ladmmc six, São Paulo, Brasil, 7. November 2019: Registration Open
4. The Fourth MEDMA Workshop on Jobsite Automation, 24.11.19, Sharjah, UAE
5. The 14th Annual SEADMA Conference, 28.11.19 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
6. Uzin Utz Expands Installations in Sursee/Switzerland
7. ARDEX Enters into a Joint Venture with Ceramfix (Brasil)
8. Synthomer Expands Acrylics Capacity in Germany

1. Remembering Dr. Giorgio Squinzi

Giorgio Squinzi was born in Cisano Bergamasco, Italy in 1943, he recently died at age 76. Giorgio Squinzi studied industrial (organic) chemistry at University of Milano and obtained his phD there. After his studies, he started working with Mapei SpA, a construction chemical company founded by his father, Rodolfo Squinzi back in 1937. Dr. Giorgio Squinzi took over as general manager of Mapei in 1976, and he quickly expanded this business worldwide. Today, Mapei has over 10.000 employees all around the globe, the group has 89 subsidiaries in 36 Nations and reached a turnover of 2.500 mio Euro in 2018.

Dr. Squinzi was a creative, intrepid and far-sighted entrepreneur and philanthropist. He held several important positions in the Italian Chemical Society and in the General Confederation of the Italian Industry (Confindustria), also he took strong interest in the standardization of tile adhesives and led several quality initiatives to calibrate and improve laboratory findings on drymix mortars. His fascination of sports led him to support professional cycling (with an own team until 2003) and later football, where he took ownership of US Sassuolo Calcio (today Serie A). "Mai smettere di pedalare" (never stop pedaling) was one of Dr. Squinzi's mottos.

Dr. Giorgio Squinzi has shaped drymix mortar technology both in terms of industrial, integrated production as well as in terms of technical development all over the world. Our heartfelt condolences go to his wife Adriana and his children Veronica and Marco.

2. Newly Published: Drymix Mortar Yearbook 3D Special - Order it now!

scalingUp3D - The Interdisciplinary Conference on Printable Mortars, took place on 27.  and 28. June 2019 in Wopfing and Vienna, Austria. The conference with its combination of practical demonstrations and technical lectures gained high acclaim by the delegates. By mutual request of them as well as encouraged by our industry peers, drymix.info decided to issue The Drymix Mortar Yearbook 3D Special, which has been completed last week. The 78-page book contains many of the lectures held during scalingUp3D here are the titles (sorted alphabetically by company/institution:

BauMinator / 3 D Druck Baumit GmbH, Wopfing, Austria | Eduard Artner: The BauMinator 3D Concrete Printing System
GDCh Fachgruppe Bauchemie/Division of the Chemistry of Construction Materials of the German Chemical Society, Frankfurt, Germany | Roger Zurbriggen: Welcome Speech
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH, Zürich, Switzerland | Ana Maria Anton: Concrete Choreography - 3D Printing of Concrete Columns
m-tec mathis technik GmbH, Neuenburg, Germany | Timo Flamm: Duo-Mix Connect "The King of the Building Site" - Dedicated to Building 4.0 / 3DCP
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA | Dale P. Bentz, Scott Z. Jones, Isaiah R. Bentz and Max A. Peltz: Towards the Formulation of Robust and Sustainable Cementitious Binders for 3-D Additive Construction by Extrusion
PrintStones GmbH, Vienna, Austria | Herwig Hengl: Printstones Mobile Concrete 3D Printing
Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany | Sven Pfeiffer, Dietmar Stephan, Tobias Dorn, Tamino Hirsch: State of the Art and Perspectives of 3D Printing in Construction
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany | Harald Kloft, Dirk Lowke and Norman Hack: An Innovative and Efficient Technology for 3D Printing of Large-scale Concrete Components
UltraTest GmbH, Achim, Germany | Christoph Duwe: Ultrasonic Measurements at 3D Applications
Wacker Chemie AG, Burghausen, Germany | Klaus Bonin: Formulating 3D-Printing Mortars with Polymer Binders and Synthetic Fibers

The Drymix Mortar Yearbook 3D Special is available for purchase from 16. October 2019, it can be ordered on our website (Visa, Mastercard) for 20 Euro incl. 7% German VAT and shipping and handling) or by e-mail to us (25 Euro PLUS 7% German VAT +costs for shipping and handling). All registered and paid for delegates at scalingUp3D will receive one free copy by regular mail (please make sure we have your correct postal address!).

3. ladmmc six, São Paulo, Brasil, 7. November 2019: Registration Open

drymix.info invites to the Sixth Latin American Drymix Mortar Conference ladmmc six (Sexta Conferência Latino Americana de Argamassas ladmmc six) again. This event is the only gathering of drymix mortar experts on the Southern Cone, it takes place on Thursday, 7. November 2019, at Clube Transatlântico, São Paulo, Brasil. The Drymix Mortar Yearbook 2019 will be distributed to all delegates. Our technical Chairman is Mario Kristeller. Contributors to our program include Arkema, Cimental, Ciplan, Dow Construction Chemicals, Formitex, Haver & Boecker, Imerys Aluminates, LB Technology, Parex (now Sika), Saint Gobain Weber Quarzolit, TP Chemicals, Votorantim Cimentos and Wacker Chemie. Sponsoring is still available, please enquire with us. drymix.info will donate 1.000 Euro from the proceeds of ladmmc six to Cidades sem fome, an urban gardening initiative led by engineer Hans-Dieter Tremp in metropolitan São Paulo. Interested delegates can join Leo on a visit to one of their projects on 6. November 2019, we meet at 13:00. Please send us an e-mail if you wish to join us.

Our standard pricing applies for ladmmc six: admission is 390 Euro, reduced to 290 Euro for members of drymix.info, drymix mortar producers pay only 190 Euro. If you are booking your admission online, a 30 Euro bonus gets deducted from the prices above. The entire program is available on www.drymix.info.

Attention address change: in this moment the message from Mario reaches me:The address of Clube Transatlantico (old: Rua de José Guerra, 130) has been changed to “Av. Cecilia Lottenberg (ainda SN, aprox. nº 12.)  Chácara Santo Antonio – SP". It is still the same location, just the street name was changed. 

4. The Fourth MEDMA Workshop on Jobsite Automation, 24.11.19, Sharjah, UAE

The Middle East Drymix Mortar Association MEDMA e.V. invites to its Fourth MEDMA Workshop on Jobsite Automation, Industrial Mortar Mixing and Pumping. The workshop takes place on and during The International Concrete Conference & Exhibition, ICCX Middle East 2019 and is being supported by the organizers of ICCX. All delegates obtain a free pass to ICCX exhibition on 24.11.19. Confirmed support comes from Arkan Drymix, CCC Drymix, Conmix, Haver&Boecker Middle East, JK Cement, m-tec and Wacker Chemie. Ferdinand Leopolder, President of MEDMA will moderate the session.

The workshop is free of charge, however advance registration is mandatory. Please send us an e-mail to info@drymix.info. In the evening, MEDMA will hold its Annual General Member's Assembly, a separate invitation will go out to the members in fall of 2019 (for members only).

5. The 14th Annual SEADMA Conference, 28.11.19 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

The South East Asia Drymix Mortar Association SEADMA, Ltd. invites to its 14th Annual conference in Ho Chi Minh City on 28. November 2019. Building on the success and great feedback on the two local Vietnam Drymix Mortar Meetings in 2018 (Ho Chi Minh City) and 2019 (Hanoi), the event is aimed at construction materials experts in all Nations of ASEAN. It is the single most important networking opportunity for our industry in the area. Supporters include Actemium, Dairen, Flooring.vn, Haver&Boecker, IMCD/Ashland, LB-Technology, Lotte Fine Chemical, Maltech, Mapei, MC-Bifi Bauchemie, NFLG, Testing Bluhm & Feuerherdt and Wacker Chemie

Our standard pricing applies for the 14th Annual SEADMA Conference: admission is 390 Euro, reduced to 290 Euro for members of drymix.info, drymix mortar producers pay only 190 Euro. If you are booking your admission online, a 30 Euro bonus gets deducted from the prices above.

6. Uzin Utz Expands Installations in Sursee/Switzerland

Uzin Utz Schweiz AG, Buochs, Switzerland has completed the second phase of its investment into its logistics and service center in Sursee (half way between Berne and Zurich). The new hall comprises 3.200 square meters and will bundle logistics for all three Swiss Uzin Utz AG subsidiaries. It also features a service center for floor preparation machines as well as laboratories. The entire grounds at Sursee measure 20.000 square meters With this second phase, about 11.000 square meters have been used up. For the remaining area, a training center as well as office space is planned in the near future. The phase 2 investment volume was 7,3 mio Euro (SFR 8 mio).

7. ARDEX Enters into a Joint Venture with Ceramfix (Brasil)

Ardex Group, Witten, Germany has announced that it entered into a Joint-Venture with Ceramfix, Gaspar, Brasil by acquiring a strategic stake. Ceramfix, founded in 1993, produces a complete product portfolio for ceramic tile and natural stone installation, as well as technical grouts, cement based renders, levelling compounds and waterproofing systems. The company has 10 facilities at various locations in Brasil, including manufacturing centers, warehouses, training centers and sales offices. The shareholders of Ceramfix and Managing Directors Antonio Carlos Schmitt, Francisco Hostins and Mario Jose Schmitt commented: “Like the Ardex Group, we are a family business and we expect the similar corporate cultures to foster creative synergies far into the future.”

8. Synthomer Expands Acrylics Capacity in Germany

Synthomer plc, London, United Kingdom has recently inaugurated a capacity expansion of its production unit for acrylic dispersions in Worms, Germany. The highly automated polymerization lines have a capacity of 36.000 tons and will produce dispersions to be used in paints, lacquers, textiles, adhesive and construction chemicals.This investment boosts the capacity of Synthomer in Worms by 30%.

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