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Construction materials must deliver increasingly demanding combinations of performance, durability, productivity and environmental responsibility. IMPAG supports manufacturers across the Building & Construction industry with functional raw materials, additives and formulation expertise designed to optimize both application properties and finished-product performance.
Our approach combines market understanding, technical know-how and regulatory expertise to help customers select the right chemistry for their specific construction applications.
How can we support you?
Your contact person for Performance Chemicals
Jérôme Bollard
Segment Director Performance Chemicals
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Our key market areas
Dry-Mix Mortars
From tile adhesives and grouts to renders, plasters, self-levelling compounds and technical mortars, polymers, additives, fibers are essential for controlling rheology, water retention, adhesion, workability, strength and durability.
Decorative Paints & Pasty Products
Interior and exterior paints, plasters and textured coatings require a careful balance between rheology, appearance, application properties, durability and formulation cost.
Surface Protection
Hydrophobic and oleophobic treatments, façade protection and wood protection help extend the service life of construction materials by limiting water ingress, staining and weathering.
Asphalt & Bituminous Applications
Road construction and waterproofing membranes rely on additives and modifiers that improve processing, adhesion, flexibility, ageing resistance and durability.
Building Elements
Bricks, roof tiles, gypsum boards, fiber-cement and other prefabricated building materials require additives and functional minerals to optimize manufacturing and final performance.
Sealants
Construction sealants require carefully selected fillers, rheology modifiers, adhesion promoters, plasticizers and other additives to combine application properties with long-term mechanical performance.
Market trends
Lower-carbon construction
Reducing the embodied carbon of construction materials is becoming a major development driver. This increases interest in lower-clinker cement systems, alternative binders, supplementary cementitious materials and additives capable of maintaining performance in increasingly complex formulations.
Higher productivity
Faster application, better pumpability, controlled setting, extended open time and reliable performance under variable climatic conditions remain important productivity drivers.
Durability and renovation
Extending building lifetime and renovating the European building stock increase demand for repair mortars, façade systems, waterproofing and surface-protection technologies.
Formulation efficiency
Manufacturers increasingly seek multifunctional additives and functional fillers that can improve performance while reducing formulation complexity and overall system cost.
Key regulatory topics
Building & construction materials increasingly face requirements concerning chemical safety, emissions, sustainability and product documentation. The evolving European framework is therefore progressively linking chemical compliance with the environmental performance of finished construction products.
Typical product solutions
- Cellulose ethers: HEC, HPMC, MHEC
- Redispersible polymer powders (RDP)
- Starch ethers
- Defoamers and air-entraining agents
- Dispersing and wetting agents
- Hydrophobic agents
- Rheology modifiers
- Fibres
- Functional fillers: kaolin, wollastonite, nepheline syenite, fibres, lightweight fillers
- Biocides and preservatives
- Specialty polymers and resins