A hundred-year balance Annual Report 2010 - Uzin Utz AG

was the “transfer” of the new levelling compound technology
“with Level Plus Effect”, already marketed with
great success in Germany, to our foreign dry mortar
works. In this case the objective was to adapt the product
formulations and production processes of UZIN NC
175 Neu and UZIN NC 170 LevelStar to the local raw material
circumstances of the location in Soissons, in order
to fulfil essential requirements for the risk management
and any potential loss of production in Ulm. The cementbased
levelling compound UZIN NC 395 was also re-formulated
with raw materials locally available in France,
adapted to local requirements and therefore prepared
for the French market launch under the name UZIN NC
495. Further extensive development support was also
carried out for the works in Legnica, to be able to provide
a new self-levelling compound UZIN NC 146 adapted
to the local eastern European market requirements.
The thin screed UZIN NC 195 S was also improved with
regard to the coverage and surface smoothness and prepared
for its market launch in Poland and Scandinavia.
e) UZIN TurboLight-System®
In close cooperation with Application Technology, we succeeded
in bringing the new UZIN TurboLight-System® to
the point of market readiness with some unique advantages.
The advantages are clear to see: the times until
laying readiness of the system, which is also heat-insulating,
have been reduced by about half in comparison
to dry screeds. With this system, the supporting substrate
is subjected to only one third of the load of conventional
screeds. Areas of unevenness from 8 mm to
30 cm can also be levelled off seamlessly with this system.
Last but not least, the composite can also be used
without restriction in damp areas. This innovation, for
which a patent has been applied, is a system of laying
materials perfectly matched to each other, and is ideally
suitable as a problem-solver for construction sites with
tight deadlines and large areas of unevenness in the renovation
area. Textile and elastic floor coverings, parquet
and tiles can all be laid on this fast-hardening system
using the usual methods. System consists of the fast
light smoothing mortar UZIN NC 194 Turbo, the renovation
fleece UZIN RR 201 and the composite levelling
compound UZIN NC 195 Neu. The light smoothing mortar
UZIN NC 194 Turbo hardens largely without shrinkage,
and is one of the key components of the system,
consisting of special fast cement bonding agents and
light additives. The re-formulation of the composite levelling
compound UZIN NC 195 was also completed in
the course of preparation and testing of this new system.
2. Fluid product developments
a) Solvent-free dispersion contact adhesive
The project “Solvent-free, very low-emission dispersion
contact adhesive” was developed under the direction of
the R&D specialist department of Uzin Tyro AG, and the
resulting product successfully tested in close cooperation
with the Central Laboratory in Ulm, in order to prepare
it for market launch in 2011. After several years of
development work, we can now supply for the first time,
and on the 100-year Jubilee of Uzin Utz AG, a solventfree
neoprene contact adhesive on an aqueous dispersion
basis, which covers the complete application range
of products with a high solvent content and high initial
strength, which were previously considered to be indispensable
for this purpose. With UZIN WK 222 we have
succeeded in developing an outstanding new product,
with which skirting rails, profiles and floor coverings can
be fitted to stairs, walls and ceilings in future without any
risk to health, without the floor layer having to change
the method of application. Since the complete, group-wide
discontinuation of solvent use has been defined as an
important objective for the coming years, this innovation
represents a further milestone in ecological building.
b) Laying materials for the fixing of floor coverings
PVC design coverings are a trend with market potential,
are enjoying increasing popularity and are ideally suitable
for shops, hotels and residential areas. For this application,
the R&D Fluid Products specialist department
has developed the new product system UZIN U 3000 for
a very special method of ergonomic laying of dimensionally
stable PVC design coverings. The ready-to-use dispersion
system, consisting of the fast fixative UZIN U
3000 RollFix and the matching UZIN U 3000 Primer, is
in its application range an outstanding addition to the
already existing alternative product recommendations
UZIN KE 66 and UZIN Sigan 2, particularly for smaller
areas. The new technology used is ideally suitable for
simple applications, and enables particularly convenient
working in the standing position. It also allows seamless
laying, and if necessary also the simple replacement of
individual floor covering elements. A further plus point
of the new system is that laid areas are immediately set
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