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Most of the times such claims did not stand the rigor of scientific proof and more often than not the claims made were a marketing tool rather than a substantiated fact.
I then came across a company called PowerCem Technologies in Moerdijk, The Netherlands, that has developed a range of products that make it possible to turn previously unusable materials into useful building materials or to immobilize broad range of pollutants in the environment while at the same time turning the polluted resources in a useful and beneficial products and/or services to society.
Their products are used in combination with traditional cement and pozzolanic binders to render previously useless materials and resources into a useful “structural” product while at the same time reducing our environmental (ecological) footprint. The products have an inherent ability to convert a highly contaminated secondary materials and byproducts of society into a useful material/product/service and do so with ecological as well as financial gains. In doing this their products also transform the way we look at resources as well as the methodology of building and designing some of our infrastructure systems.
PowerCem Technologies has come up with an innovation of a huge potential impact that they themselves were not able to grasp the importance of their innovation, nor were many of their initial clients. The ability to prevent and reduce continual mining of natural basic materials and the use of methods of construction that will eventually swallow up the natural materials, for example in road construction, was unfortunately not enough to make PowerCem Technologies an immediate “talk of the town” and an instant success.
Caught in the paradigm of Hermann Hesse that:
“Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work and practice is when everything works and you don’t always know why”
PowerCem Technology embarked on an uncertain journey to convince potential users and clients, governments and private sector, scientists and skeptics that here is an innovation that is real and that will deliver on the claims.
But like every new product, method or application, taking the first step is always the greatest challenge, especially in the multi-disciplined world of civil engineering where different specialist are working in geotechnical, hydraulic, environmental and road engineering and construction, etc.
This Manual represents the first step from innovation to transformation to a sustainable future for PowerCem Technologies as a company and it is written in such a way that it is accessible for everyone needing a clear view of what the innovative PowerCem Technology and its products are all about, how to work with them and what the broad range of application possibilities for the technology and the product are.
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