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Lafarge offers a wide range of products. These products cover all applications in the construction sector, from public works to decoration.

Agilia®: the self-placing, self-leveling concrete

Launched on the French market in 2000, Agilia® is a self-placing, self-leveling concrete. Highly fluid, this concrete spreads effortlessly. It can be poured quickly and provides a perfect, highly esthetic finish.

Agilia® considerably improves conditions on building sites:

  • thanks to its fluidity, it eliminates the tedious chore of vibration. This improves on-site conditions for workers,
  • it reduces worksite noise, a source of irritation both for workers and for nearby residents.

 

Today, Lafarge is the only global producer able to manufacture self-placing concrete in all locations with guaranteed, consistent quality.

Agilia® is a range of concrete products suitable for all uses: Agilia® Force, Agilia® Formes, Agilia® Horizontal, Agilia® Vertical, etc.

Construction site for the Saint-Etienne gymnasium, France

Self-placing concrete

Self-placing concretes are special, highly-fluid concretes which settle into place by gravity alone and do not, therefore, require vibration. They are designed to be poured into watertight formwork. Even without vibration they cover reinforcements perfectly and provide extremely smooth facing.

Self-leveling concrete

A variant of self-placing concretes, self-leveling concretes have a specially formulated and graded composition to ensure a fluid spread. They form smooth-surfaced slabs with no need for vibration or float finishing (used to make a surface flat).

Artevia®: decorative concretes

Slabs using colored deactivated Artevia®, South Africa

Decorative Artevia® concretes stand out because of their color and texture. The range includes:

  • Artevia® Color
  • Artevia® Empreinte
  • Artevia® Poli
  • Artevia® Relief
  • Artevia® Roche
  • Artevia® Sable

Let your imagination run wild!

Ductal®: ultra-high performance fiber-reinforced concrete

RATP bus center in Thiais, France, a Ductal® building

Ductal® concrete is:

  • ultra-high performance: its resistance is 6 to 8 times greater than that of conventional concrete,
  • fiber-reinforced: it contains metal fibers that make it ductile. It can resist bending and can withstand major transformations (such as pressure or dilation) without breaking,
  • resistant to external aggressions such as abrasion, pollution, weathering and scratching.

Extensia™, concrete without cracks

Insight

David Beaupré, Product Development Manager for the Extensia™ project in the Concrete Business.

"Joints are the weak points in concrete floors. Cracks may appear over time and must be reinforced. By reducing the number of joints, Extensia™ increases productivity on the worksite and reduces maintenance costs."

David Beaupré, Product Development Manager for the Extensia™ project in the Concrete Business.

Extensia™ concrete was developed for slabs and industrial floors which are subject to heavy traffic and storage loads. It helps limit cracking in floors and reduces the number of expansion joints, which are both expensive and unsightly.

 

The Extensia™ formulation also facilitates preparation, pouring and the removal of formwork. This results in considerable time savings (-40%) and less physical labor.

Extensia™ also offers a number of advantages in terms of sustainable development:

  • it does not require steel reinforcement,
  • it consumes less energy during the pour,
  • it offers excellent resistance to wear and tear, limiting future maintenance and eliminating the need for a protective top coat. A real plus for the environment!

Chronolia™, boosting construction sites

Chronolia™ represents a major technological advance for the building sector. The result of extremely advanced research in nanotechnologies, it offers the same flexibility of use as a conventional ready-mix concrete but develops extremely high mechanical resistance soon after pouring. Its formwork can be removed 4 hours after pouring compared to 12 to 20 hours for traditional concrete.

Consequently, the number of daily cycles of form setting and stripping can be doubled, resulting in considerable time savings and productivity gains on the worksite!

Chronolia™

The potential of nanotechnologies

Research into the microstructure of materials at the nanoscale, that is, at an infinitely small scale*, makes it possible to identify the mechanisms of a material's resistance, solidity and durability. This allows researchers to better understand the physical and chemical mechanisms at work and develop products with high added value.

* 1 nanometer = 0.000001 millimeter

Last update on 06/05/2008

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Industrial ecology

How to create value from waste

Large amounts of natural resources, particularly minerals and fossil fuels, are used to manufacture cement. For many years the Group has been working to reduce the environmental impact of its activities by finding ways to obtain value from waste products.