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From left: Manager Industrial Sales Sanka Seneviratne, CEO Philippe Richart and Vice President Marketing & Sales Nalin Karunaratne
Holcim Lanka’s Ready Flow Plus has entered the market with a promise of high performance that combines with strength, consistency and workability.
A product manufactured in Sri Lanka with local inputs encourages a leaner but stronger concrete footprint and assures the construction industry of faster delivery times, efficient performance and stronger roots that can hold out against adverse weather conditions while ensuring efficient management of floor space. Sri Lanka’s construction industry is experiencing tremendous growth with increasing emphasis on high-rise buildings. Given the limitations on space to build, high-rise constructions are emerging as the preferred choice of many.
“In developing Ready Flow Plus, Holcim (Lanka) Ltd has gone one step further in shifting from ordinary Portland cement that requires inputs such as clinker, to blended cement which scores high on sustainability and leaves a smaller environmental foot print,” says Holcim (Lanka) Ltd Manager Industrial Sales Sanka Senaviratne.
“Better workability means less resources utilised while also ensuring that the concrete flow is optimal. Holcim Lanka has invested considerably in developing the right product mix that meets the stringent requirements of the industry. All developed countries are moving towards blended cement followed by Asia Pacific countries who have opted for blended cement as the next best choice as far as strength and efficiency is concerned, for high rise structures. Holcim’s Ready Flow Plus guarantees strength, performance and workability as a blended cement which allows achieving the right mix required,” Sanka adds.
Developed following over 1 1/2 years of extensive research conducted by Holcim Lanka, the process involved the company’s global know-how and expertise in cement manufacturing in over 70 countries and its outstanding quality assurance procedures. The research conducted also involved inputs from customers engaging in three sets of trials with real time applications. The process also included extensive brainstorming exercises conducted with industry experts, academics and regulatory bodies in determining the best product mix.
With cutting edge inputs such as better workability, Holcim Lanka’s Ready Flow Plus also scores high on its flexibility in working with all kinds of raw materials, such as river sand and manufactured sand.
Holcim Lanka has worked closely with construction industry academics and experts from the Universities of Moratuwa, Ruhuna and Peradeniya in developing Ready Flow Plus.
“The fact that Holcim’s Ready Flow Plus meets all the requirements of a modern cement mixture speaks well for the future of the construction industry and high rise structures. There’s less limestone extraction and greater use of industrial by-products which means low energy consumption and a low concrete footprint. The product also scores high on being able to utilise less inputs and less raw material in maximising concrete output with unequalled strength, efficiency, workability and performance. It is environmentally sound and meets global sustainability requirements while satisfying industry requirements on all fronts,” says Senaviratne in conclusion.
