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No more dusty roads with

environmentally friendly

smart materials

Polymer Pavements, also known as Polyroads, and waste materials that in many instances PolySeal
has its head office in Johannesburg, South would be discarded as unsuitable.
Africa and is represented in eighteen countries In simplistic terms, PolySeal is a polymer modi-
on four continents. Polymer Pavements manu- Smart road materials (SRM) from Polyroads en- fication of cement, which increases the tensile
factures and develops environmentally friendly ables the private and mining sector to reduce and flexural strength of mortars and concrete
Smart Materials for road construction, low cost CO2 emissions, reduce aggregate and water and reduces their brittle nature.
road seals, factory floors, dust control, barrier consumption.
liners and spray-on geoliners for dams. PolySeal Geoliner is high-tech, cost effective
To stay abreast of nano polymer technology, and easy to apply. PolySeal is a water-soluble
These Smart Materials includes in-situ material Polyroads have a number of bi-lateral research polymer spray-on barrier liner. The application
binders, soil modifiers, asphalt modifiers and and development agreements in place with an of three coats of PolySeal emulsion will result
elastomeric mortar admixtures. international chemical partners. Polyroads are in a highly elastic, non-toxic and flexible seal-
focused on soil sciences and the positive im- ant for concrete or earthen dams or capping of
Smart Materials challenges the core of con- pact the technology can bring to the construc- waste stockpiles.
ventional road construction and design, by tion industry.
bringing in unprecedented resilient modulus
flexibility, which is required for Mechanistic- Some of Polyroads’ products that are useful on
Empirical (ME) road designs. Smart Materials, farms include:
reduces the number of supporting aggregate
layers for cement modified/stabilized flexible ClearTech
and rigid road designs, and the re by substan-
tially reducing construction costs. ClearTech – is a transparent coloured binder,
designed for surface binding of materials and
During the past 70 years, a number of coun- to created naural looking wearing course seals.
tries have been researching and developing Natural looking clear seal – when the need is a
various polymeric admixtures in modified natural look on your gravel roads, then Clear-
concrete mortars. Today, the USA,Germany, Tech polymer, is what you are looking for.
Japan have Standard Specifications for polymer
modified mortars and concretes. However, in Dust Tech
general the construction industry has been Contact Details:
pedestrian in adopting technology. Smart Dust-Tech, essentially is a liquid plastic. The
Materials have been developed as a renais- polymer has been developed with a particle Polyroads
sance to the stoic road construction industry. size of 10 μm (ten micron). That is one-hun- Contact: Jacques Eygelaar
Layered pavement designs have not changed dredth of a millimeter (0.01mm). The minute E-mail: jacques@polyroads.com
for the last 100 years. size of the particles allows greater penetration
into the soil. Web: www.polyroads.com
Smart Materials, are purposely designed and Tel: +27 (0)82 373 7657
allows the construction industry to use insitu

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