ADVA® Cast high-range admixtures
A high-range water reducing admixture for the precast/prestressed concrete industry. Excellent placeability and workability, flow through congested forms without segregation and high early strength: there is an ADVA® Cast to meet all your needs.
What is ADVA® Cast?
ADVA® Cast is a series of high efficiency, polycarboxylate-based, high-range water-reducing admixtures for the precast/prestressed concrete industry. In addition to providing excellent water reduction, ADVA® Cast products generate higher compressive strengths, better slump retention, improved rheology, enhanced air control, superior finishability and robustness across a wide range of materials, including both flowable and self-consolidating concrete.
ADVA® Cast Product Documents
| Product Name | Product Data Sheet |
| ADVA® CAST 552 | |
| ADVA® CAST 554 | |
| ADVA® Cast 560 | |
| ADVA® Flow 340 | |
| ADVA® FLOW 346 |
- Product Name
- Description
- Key Benefits
- Applications Type
ADVA® CAST 552 is a powerful superplasticiser designed to yield high range water reduction, short setting time and very high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.
- ADVA® CAST 552 is especially suitable for producing high range water reductions, allowing considerable increases in compressive strength
- ADVA® CAST 552 provides improved impermeability and durability characteristics with reduced defects
- ADVA® CAST 552 can be used to reduce the energy requirements of external heat in accelerated curing
ADVA® CAST 554 is a powerful superplasticiser with accelerating properties designed to yield high range water reduction, short setting time and very high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.
- ADVA® CAST 554 is especially suitable for producing high range water reductions, allowing considerable increases in compressive strength
- Impermeability and durability are correspondingly improved. In this application, near neutral setting time is observed
- The accelerating strength development given by ADVA® CAST 554 means that casting can continue in cold weather reducing the energy requirements of external heat curing
ADVA® Cast 560 is an accelerating superplasticising admixture designed to yield high range water reduction, short setting time and very high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.
- Considerable increases in compressive strength
- Impermeability and durability are correspondingly improved
- Early release strength
- Ideal for use in all precast/pre-stressed structures where high-range water reduction and accelerated early strength development are needed for early de-moulding and /or heat energy savings.
ADVA® Flow 340 is a high performance high efficiency, new generation admixture designed to impart extremely high consistence and enable the production of self compacting concrete.
ADVA® Flow 340 is extremely efficient, allowing the production of high flow / self-compacting concrete without excessive admixture dosage and at ‘normal’ water contents.
- Can be used with most types of Portland cements.
- Effective in concrete containing fly ash or ground granulated blast slag.
ADVA® FLOW 346 is a high performance high efficiency, new generation admixture designed to impart extremely high consistence and enable the production of self compacting concrete.
- ADVA® FLOW 346 is extremely efficient, allowing the production of high Flow / self-compacting concrete without excessive admixture dosage and at ‘normal’ water contents
- Using suitable mix design, self-compacting concrete produced with ADVA® FLOW 346, efficiently flows then compacts around rebar reinforcement without blocking or segregation
- ADVA® FLOW 346 will enhance both the concrete pumpability and a combined plasticizing effect allows for high range water reductions, leading to considerable increases in compressive strength, impermeability and durability
- ADVA® FLOW 346 is especially suitable for Precast Factory applications, as is has neutral setting time and high early age strength
Solve challenging forms, improve efficiency and quality with high-strength SCC
Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC) is a highly flowable, non-segregating concrete that spreads into place, fills formwork, self-compacts and encapsulates even the most congested reinforcement, all without any mechanical vibration. SCC flows evenly around complex or congested forms without segregation. SCC produced with ADVA® Cast products provides unique advantages over conventional flowing concrete:
- Lower SCC viscosity
- Self-placement
- No segregation
- No blocking
- Improved finishes
This results in high-quality, high performance, precast concrete elements.
Technical services for every application
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