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drymix.info Newsletter 257/2021; ISSN Number 1613-0111; 31. August 2021

1. Expert Panel on idmmc8 (4.10.21): DAW, KIT, Sika and Saint Gobain Weber

2. Egypt Drymix Mortar Meeting Becomes Part of University Format, Cairo, 20.10.21

3. PT Drymix Indonesia and Mortindo Join Forces in Triputra Group

4. Zoomlion Plans on Producing Drymix Mortars in the Future

5. Bachl to Build New Mineral-Wool Insulation Panels Plant

6. Sika Takes over Bexel, Mexico

1. Expert Panel on idmmc8 (4.10.21): DAW, KIT, Sika and Saint Gobain Weber

The 8th International Drymix Mortar Conference idmmc8 takes place as a live event with real people on Monday, 4. October 2021. Our location is the former Katzenberg precast concrete plant, now called “Sugar Mountain”. There is a casual delegate welcome at 19:00 on Sunday, 3. October 2021 at historic Nockherberg beer-garden, sponsored by Schleibinger Geräte, BYK Chemie and drymix.info. Our Technical Chairman Prof. Dr. Johann Plank of Technische Universität München, Germany (TUM) again.

As mentioned earlier, Prof. Dr. Andreas Gerdes of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has agreed to moderate our panel discussion on the topic of “Formulating Drymix Mortars Sustainably - National and European Environmental Regulations”. Confirmed participants are (subject to change without notice): Dr. Christoph Hahner, Chief Product Innovation Officer and Member of the Board of DAW SE, Ober-Ramstadt, Germany, Didier Dru, Head of Research and Development for Mortars and Concrete at Sika France, Le Bourget and a representative of Saint Gobain Webers Research and Development Team (Germany or France) will join this important discussion.

CoVid-19 (Corona) Policy: in order to provide a safe, relaxed and enjoyable conference for all our delegates, drymix.info has decided to only allow access to idmmc8 for delegates that are either fully vaccinated (Johnson&Johnson: one time, BioNTech, Moderna, Astra-Zeneca: two times, before 18.9.21) or recovered from CoVid-19. Please provide proof of your vaccination/recovery status either as hardcopy or with a certified app (e.g. Europe: CoVPass App). Sorry, we will have to check this on an individual basis. All those records will only be kept until 24. October 2021 and then deleted/destroyed by us. Inside Sugar Mountain, you may be required to wear a suitable face mask when walking around, we will seat you with 1,50 m distance to the next delegate (unless with the same company).

These precautions are necessary to make idmmc8 happen, we ask for your understanding. If you wish to come and do not qualify according to our CoVid-19 policy mentioned above, please contact us immediately so we can try to find an individual solution (most likely a certified PCR test, to be taken on Saturday, 2. October 2021 at your expense).

Online registration is open on www.drymix.info, we have only about 60 seats left. Admission to idmmc8 is 550 Euro (incl. 19% German VAT - on all admissions), reduced to 420 Euro for drymix.info, SEADMA and MEDMA members. There is a special admission for drymix mortar manufacturers which is only 280 Euro (no further deductions applicable to this special offer).

2. Egypt Drymix Mortar Meeting Becomes Part of University Format, Cairo, 20.10.21

“The 10th Workshop on Oilfield and Construction Chemistry with
Focus on Drymix Mortars” is the new title of our Egypt Drymix Mortar Meeting. With the support of Prof. Dr. Ghada Bassioni, Ain Shams University (ASU), Cairo Egypt we became part of this international format. ASU, drymix.info and The Middle East Drymix Mortar Association MEDMA (a Dubai Association) are joining forces to organize this event.

Apart from the lectures by drymix.info (F. Leopolder), Evonik (M. Roos), m-tec (K. Güvenç) and Wacker Chemie (M. Sanaobar) there are lectures by prominent members of the Egypt Scientific Community. The program is being completed as we speak, a draft is available online already at www.drymix.info. After the event, Wacker Chemie, Evonik and m-tec invite the delegates to a romantic cruise on the Nile with a festive Gala Dinner (bus transfer included).

Admission to the Egypt Drymix Mortar Meeting is 280 Euro, reduced to 180 Euro for drymix.info, SEADMA and MEDMA members. There is a special admission for drymix mortar manufacturers which is only 90 Euro per person (no further deductions applicable to this special offer). There is a contingent of 20 admissions set aside for students and faculty of Ain Shams University free of charge. Registration with credit card payment (Visa or Mastercard only) will be available on www.drymix.info from next week.

3. PT Drymix Indonesia and Mortindo Join Forces in Triputra Group

PT Drymix Indonesia and PT Anugerah Mortar Abadi (“Mortindo”), both Jakarta, Indonesia have announced that they will join forces. Lemindo, the construction materials division in Rachmat family's Triputra group (a quite large Indonesian industrial holding) has recently acquired all shares of Drymix Indonesia, so it becomes a sister company of Mortindo. Both companies will combine their production facilities and service. They produce cementitious drymix mortars such as skim coats (“acian”), renders (“plester”), ALC block adhesives, waterproofing systems as well as tile adhesive & grouts. PT Drymix Indonesia is a long-standing member of both drymix.info and The South East Asia Drymix Mortar Association SEADMA, both companies are founding members of Promindo, the SEADMA Chapter in Indonesia. A transaction value was not given by either party.

4. Zoomlion Plans on Producing Drymix Mortars in the Future

Zhan Chunxin, Chairman of Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd., Changsha, China, has recently announced that the company will re-structure its business and also start producing drymix mortars themselves in the future. Zoomlion is a machinery producer focussed on mobile equipment for construction and agriculture. Apart from other acquisitions in Europe, Zoomlion bought m-tec mathis technik GmbH, Neuenburg, Germany, a producer of jobsite machinery for the application of drymix mortars and turnkey drymix mortar plants. Speaking on an annual shareholder's meeting, Zhan Chunxin presented the future structure of Zoomlion, there will be the construction machinery division, the division for agricultural machinery (currently only 5% of Zoomlion's turnover) and the new drymix mortar („new materials) division (no entity has been formed yet to accommodate this activity).

Zoomlion's plan to eventually produce drymix mortars can be considered a forward integration. It remains to be seen, if their clients (there are over 9.000 independent drymix mortar producers in China) will tolerate Zoomlion in the market as producer and now competitor. Zoomlion's turnover in 2020 was 8.530 mio Euro, an increase of over 50% over 2019. In its public financial report, the new materials business did not separately disclose data.

5. Bachl to Build New Mineral-Wool Insulation Panels Plant

Karl Bachl GmbH & Co KG, Röhrnbach, Germany has started construction of a new insulation materials plant in Ronneburg, Thuringia, Central Germany. At their Ronneburg location, Bachl already operates an expanded polystyrene panels (EPS) plant since the nineties of the last century. Production of mineral wool panels is expected to start in early 2022, the investment will yield about 100 new jobs. The Bachl Group ventures into a new insulation media with this investment, the company already produces foams based on EPS, poly-urethane (PU) and extruded polystyrene (XPS) as well as perlites. Being focussed on thermal insulation, the Bachl Group expects to prosper from recent energy saving initiatives by legislators all across Europe. "The set climate protection targets can only be achieved if the building sector is also adequately insulated and thus CO2 is saved", said Managing Director Michael Küblbeck.

6. Sika Takes over Bexel, Mexico

Sika AG, Baar, Switzerland takes over Bexel Internacional S.A. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico, a manufacturer of renders, tile adhesives and other specialty products. Bexel, founded in 1995 and active in almost all regions of Mexico, reported sales of 32,5 mio € in 2020. Bexel operates five drymix mortar plants all over nation (Monterrey, Durango, Guadalajara, Vilahermosa and Umán/Yucatán). Together with Sika's new production unit in the Mexico City Capital Region, this could be called a prefect match when it comes to production capacities. The sales focus of Bexel is mainly geared towards hardware stores and building materials dealers (over 2.000 sales points in all 29 provinces of Mexico). A transaction value was not disclosed, the deal is still subject to the usual regulatory approvals.

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