SA Affordable Housing January - February 2020 // ISSUE: 80 | Page 40

PRODUCTS
PPC launches two premix products,
Suremortar and Sureplaster
As a product delivered to the construction site in a ready-to-use state, premix mortar and
plaster is convenient to apply, store and control. Traditionally, the onsite manual process
of mixing cement and sand slows down productivity, but with premixed mortar and
plaster all one needs to do is add water.
The process of manufacturing the premix products involves burning sand through a
burner to make if finer and get rid of organic components then accurate sand and cement
mix proportioning; the end result is a consistent quality premix.
PPC announces an extension of the Surerange product line by launching two premix
products:
• Suremortar – a quality premix for bricklaying
The two are designed to offer a convenient and reliable product that delivers consistent
colour and performance by simply adding water. Each 40kg bag of mortar covers
approximately 1m 2 , and can be mixed as required, making it easier to order exactly what
is needed, with Suremortar and Sureplaster, contractors can save time, increase
productivity and decrease wastage as well as prevent financial loss due to theft.
• Sureplaster – a quality premix for plastering
The reliable product delivers
consistent colour and
performance by simply adding
water.
New finishing plaster sets
benchmark
MetaCote will be an attractive option for the
MetaCote is a new, smoother and more
larger contractors, as well as smaller and
economic finishing plaster that promises
emerging contractors. “We are equally
to take the South African market by
confident that the product will satisfy the
storm. According to Gavin Coulson,
end-consumer who wants a superior finish to
managing director of Metadynamics, the
their structures. It will at the same time add
innovative product sets a new
value to the businesses of contractors and
benchmark for smoothness and
subcontractors.”
consistency. It is also a high purity
product, containing 95% synthetic
It comprises synthetic gypsum, rather
gypsum.
than natural gypsum which has to be
“MetaCote is a locally developed,
mined. South Africa’s natural gypsum
high-strength gypsum plaster used for
deposits are located in the Northern Cape
basecoat and finishing plaster,” says
which adds transportation costs to the
Coulson. “In our trials, users have been
carbon footprint when this is used. The
particularly impressed by its smoothness
synthetic gypsum used in MetaCote, by
MetaCote is a new, smoother and more
and longer workability. It has certainly
contrast, is sourced as a by-product from
economic finishing plaster.
exceeded their expectations.” He says it
phosphate fertiliser manufacture. Synthetic
is ideal as a multi-purpose plaster for
gypsum is also eco-friendlier as a binder,
internal applications onto brickwork, concrete blocks and dry
when compared to cement. The production of 1t of gypsum
walling. It is also a perfect finishing plaster for sand-cement
binder generates one tonne less CO 2 emissions and avoids
base coats. Layers can be finished from 3mm to 6mm in
the depletion of a further 1.5t of natural resources when
thickness.
compared to cement.
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