Innovation Focus

The dynamic African construction industry demands ongoing evolution in techniques and solutions to meet rigorous standards in performance, resilience, and sustainability. Chryso is committed to addressing key industry drivers by aligning its innovation pipeline accordingly. Through a customer-centric approach and innovation capability, Chryso has cultivated a robust and continually refreshed range of technologies. These value-added solutions and services sustainably support clients in achieving their objectives and meeting their needs.

Reduction of Carbon Footprint

Circular Construction

Densification of Concrete

Enhancing Building Material Performance

As part of the new Saint-Gobain Construction Chemicals Business Unit, Chryso and GCP are now joining forces to accelerate innovation for concrete and cement performance and sustainability. Combining the strengths and resources of both organizations allows us to provide our customers across Africa with the most advanced and disruptive solutions.

Our merged products and services now represent fantastic solutions to reduce CO2 at the source.

 

 

Innovation is in our DNA

Chryso has long been investing in a strategy aimed at developing new solutions to keep our customers satisfied by continually improving the fulfillment of their economical and technical needs. Our company provides a wide range of products (over a third which are under 5 years old) that offer solutions to our customers’ needs.

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Research and Development

You will benefit from a comprehensive range of innovative solutions dedicated to improving concrete performance, production, workability, aesthetics, and carbon footprint.

Our Technical team works closely with our R&D teams, equipped with state-of-the-art tools, equipment, and chemistries to develop cutting-edge solutions for you based on your unique requirements and materials.

Our latest innovation for the construction industry

FILL FREE®Technology provides excellent water reduction properties that are necessary to obtain targeted concrete flowability, optimal viscosity, excellent setting times and superior early strengths.

Optima 1000 Technology is a very high range water reducing superplasticizers with extended workability retention and a low concrete viscosity. This technology is well suited to pumped concrete.

Equalis technology is a workability extenders that are robust (adapt to local raw materials and temperatures) and deliver the expected workability. This gives greater flexibility to contractors (construct complex concrete structures with greater ease).

Quad technology helps improves the cohesiveness of concrete without impacting flowability. It allows for a wider range of aggregates and unprecedented levels of robustness to bleeding and segregation.

How Chryso innovations respond to the construction challenges?

INCREASINGLY COMPLEX JOBSITES

  • Increasingly complex jobsites require superior tailor-made admixture technologies.
  • The highly adjustable Chryso®Optima 1000 concrete admixture technology answers the requirements of major construction projects designed to transcend three specific performances:
    1. Workability retention
    2. Water reduction
    3. Pumpability

CONCRETE RAW MATERIAL PERFORMANCE

  • Addressing coarse aggregate and sand issues in the concrete mix is a key lever for concrete producers.
  • Because sands can significantly impact concrete placing and performance, Chryso®Quad innovation is based on a unique approach to analyze your sand, considering excess of fines, clay contamination, lack of fines, shape factor, to provide you with the best-fit admixture solution.
  • Chryso®Quad allows the use of a wider range of sands and to achieve cost reductions in sand procurements.

DIGITAL CONCRETE MONITORING

  • Jobsites will be data driven in the near future.
  • Chryso, as concrete expert, in partnership with Sensohive digital start-up, have developed a new standard in concrete performance monitoring and prediction.
  • Maturix unique service comprises a cloud-based solution using IoT network and wearable sensors, helping the construction industry to monitor concrete curing and hardening through hydration temperature measurements.
  • Advanced analytics will allow for increased productivity, enhanced concrete quality and mix design optimization.
cement plant

CEMENT CARBON FOOTPRINT REDUCTION

  • Chryso is committed to accompany the ambition of cement manufacturers to reduce their CO2 emissions.
  • Developing breakthrough cement activation technologies providing extra-performance to reduce clinker factor is one of our main goals.
  • Both CHRYSO®AMA 100 EL technology and CHRYSO®ICARE innovation are designed to limit the environmental  footprint of cement production in a profitable way, by enabling the substitution of clinker by more environmentally friendly and cost effective materials.