Unlike post-applied surface treatments that delaminate over time, or high-strength concrete that’s prone to curling and cracking, Hard-Cem integral admixture significantly reduces replacement and repair requirements and more than doubles the concrete’s wear life — lowering its embodied carbon footprint over its lifetime.
Hard-Cem uses a unique metal-mineral microstructure that is mixed integrally into concrete, reducing project costs associated with additional floor treatments or special finishing on the construction site.
It fortifies existing cement paste in the mix to increase the concrete’s resistance to abrasive and erosive forces and eliminates the risks associated with conventional hardeners or densifiers.
It significantly reduces replacement and repair requirements and more than doubles the wear life, lowering the lifetime cost — and the lifetime carbon footprint — of the concrete.
Hard-Cem is a tested and proven solution with cast-in-place, precast, and shotcrete in horizontal, vertical, or inclined placements and is commonly used on the following projects:
Maintain floor flatness and levelness, reducing wear on picking machines, helping them run more efficiently, and avoiding costly downtime.
Reduce wear on heavy machines and avoid costly downtime caused by the need for slab repairs or maintenance.
Gain unmatched abrasion resistance to reduce slab maintenance and repair costs and improve hoof health, reducing vet bills and eliminating unnecessary culling.
Gain erosion protection from constant water exposure and reduce maintenance and repair costs over time.
Hard-Cem delivers unmatched durability, particularly abrasion and erosion resistance. It lasts decades longer than regular concrete and is highly suited to high-traffic areas, heavy loads, and industrial use cases.
Unlike traditional dry shake and liquid densifiers, Hard-Cem is mixed into concrete at the batching plant, simplifying the application process, reducing costs associated with additional floor treatments or special finishing on the construction site, and eliminating the risk of delamination over time.
Hard-Cem’s warranty ensures concrete remains abrasion resistant for at least 20 years. It has been tested and proven in a wide range of applications and has no negative effects on concrete water demand, workability, set time, strength development or shrinkage, and doesn’t affect concrete admixtures, SCMs, or other ingredients.
Hard-Cem is effective with cast-in-place, precast, and shotcrete in horizontal, vertical, or inclined placements.
No toxic chemicals (e.g., silica dust) are handled on the construction site, so health and safety risks are mitigated.
Hard-Cem enables producers to significantly lower carbon emissions by using less cement, reducing the need for carbon-intensive repairs, and postponing demolition and the associated release of carbon by decades.
A Trusted Concrete Solution Since 2003
•20 years of proven performance
•20-year durability warranty
•Added to over 100 million ft2 of concrete
•Published in ACI E701-E4 Chemical Admixtures
•Up to 25% fewer CO2 emissions than typical high-strength concrete mixes
