{"id":7378,"date":"2023-05-03T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/?p=7378"},"modified":"2023-06-03T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T13:14:20","slug":"quad-range-from-chryso-underpins-commitment-to-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/quad-range-from-chryso-underpins-commitment-to-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"QUAD RANGE FROM CHRYSO UNDERPINS COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once again, CHRYSO is the first out of the starting blocks, having introduced its CHRYSO\u00ae Quad range of concrete admixtures to the market in 2022 \u2013 helping customers to promote sustainable practice in their use of challenging sands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Patrick Flannigan, Technical Manager in the Concrete Business Unit at CHRYSO Southern Africa, the use of crusher or manufactured sand in construction has been prevalent for many years as it is a cost effective and more readily available alternative to natural sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere have, however, been issues with grading which often prompts contractors to supplement with natural sand from sources such as rivers and dunes,\u201d he explains. \u201cThis is where the challenges lies with less availability of natural sands which increases costs as well as the presence of clays which means that less of this material can be used or it has to be excluded completely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur CHRYSO\u00ae Quad range allows customers to reduce their use of natural sand while making better use of crusher sand, without compromising the quality of their concrete mixes, and successful laboratory trials have already been concluded with customers in various market segments are already realising the benefits,\u201d Flannigan continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Patrick Flannigan, Technical Manager in the Concrete Business Unit at CHRYSO Southern Africa. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWorking with customers such as contractors, readymix suppliers and precast manufacturers, CHRYSO is making significant contributions to industry sustainability and reduced carbon footprint,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He highlights that using less natural sand gives the industry a lower environmental impact on sources like rivers. Where natural sand is still being used, CHRYSO\u00ae Quad CLEAR\u00ae (Clay Enabling Admixture Response) allows a wider choice of sources \u2013 even challenging sand that contains swelling clay. This can allow contractors to source from locations closer to site, reducing the carbon footprint and cost of transporting sand over a long distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe challenge is that swelling clays absorb newer generation plasticisers, thereby preventing them from delivering benefits such as water reduction or slump retention,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CHRYSO Southern Africa also offers the quick and innovative CHRYSO\u00ae CLEAR Test to identify where these swelling clays could present a problem for concrete users. Where they are identified in the source material, CHRYSO\u00ae Quad CLEAR\u00ae can be added as a liquid to the relevant plasticiser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another important contribution to sustainability in the construction and concrete manufacturing sectors is CHRYSO\u00ae Quad GRAFT\u00ae (Gap Gradation Fixing Technology), he notes. This can solve the challenge of an excess or lack of fines in source material \u2013 which often occurs in crusher sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe industry is seeing the environmental benefit of moving away from natural sand and more toward crusher sand, but this product often has varying levels of fines,\u201d he says. \u201cIn the past, this could have compromised the performance of concrete, but CHRYSO\u00ae Quad GRAFT\u00ae now solves this challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Because sands are unique, CHRYSO offers tailor-made solutions for both excess and lack of fines.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading from the front in sustainability, CHRYSO is giving concrete users another opportunity to raise their sustainability performance to the next level. Its CHRYSO\u00ae Quad range allows concrete mixes to incorporate challenging sands without affecting concrete quality \u2013 including sand that contains swelling clay and sand with too much or too little fines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-7378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-client-focus","tag-chryso-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralynne.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}