Thomas Gruppe/Dornburger Zement

2015 Baustoffthemen event: concrete – more than just superficial

This year again, about 220 customers, business partners and interested participants accepted the invitation to attend the two-day “Dornburger Baustoffthemen” (“Dornburg Building Material Topics”) event, which Dornburger Zement has been hosting for the last 19 years.

The first day focused on the theme of “Concrete – more than just a superficial view”. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Horst-Michael Ludwig, of Bauhaus University Weimar, reported on the crucial importance of additives in today’s state-of-the-art concrete technology and presented innovations in this field. Plasticizers are the most important group of...

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