Qualifications

FOOD CONTACT
(potable water, fruit juices, wine , bier, milk, powders)
Applications
Floors, walls of food processing plants,water tanks, pipes carrying potable water :
- approval for contact with potable water : C.R.E.C.E.P. (city of Paris laboratory)
- IANESCO laboratory (Poitiers).

WATER PROOFING
Applications
Waterproof floors, containment tanks for chemicals,terraces, bridge-decks, water tanks, car park floors , waste water treatment units, wet rooms :
- test : L.C.P.C. – Ster 81 qualification for civil works
- test : C.S.T.B. – waterproofing under tiles
- test : VERITAS – aging, adhesion on old coating
- test : V.T.T. (Finland) : concrete crack bridging test at - 30°C
- test : C.E.B.T.P. : concrete crack bridging test at - 20°C.

HYGIEN
Applications
Food industries, Blood Transfusion Centres, hospitals, pharmaceutical plants :
- test : I.R.M. (Microbiological Institute) – development of a bacterial contamination of the coating (salmonellas)
- test : C.E.A. decontaminability
- test : E.D.F. resistance to thermal shocks, water vapour under pressure (5 bars), sterilisation
- test : S.A.G.E.P. : resistance to bleach
- test : Berne Institute : development of listeria.

WATER PROOFING OF UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES (TANKING)
Applications
Tunnels, underground galleries, car parks, caves :
- test : C.E.T.U. : resistance to counter – pressure for tunnels
- test : C.E.B.T.P. : resistance to a counter pressure of 10 bars
- test : L.C.P.C. : resistance to a counter pressure of 15 bars.

FLOOR COATINGS
Applications
Halls, storage areas, unloading areas, steel bridges, industrial floors, technical rooms :
- test : C.S.T.B. (UPEC U4P4)
- test VERITAS

RESISTANCE TO CHIMICALS
Applications
Containment tanks, floors, chemical waste storage tanks, tanks storing chemicals :
- test : DEGREMONT for waste water treatment plants
- test : corrosion institute in Moscow
- test : C.E.A., COGEMA, GUIGUES, RHONE POULENC etc.….
- test : salt mist : S.W.C.C., KING FAHD INSTITUTE FOR PETROLEUM, SNCF
- test : diffusion of chlorides - KING FAHD INSTITUTE FOR PETROLEUM
- test : diffusion of water, vapour, oxygen, CO2 - L.N.E.
- test : resistance to chemicals : National Research Centre of testing Techniques for Building Materials (BEIJING – China) GB/T9274 -1988

DECONTAMINABILITY TO FISSION PRODUCTS, RESISTANCE TO RADIATIONS
Applications
floors, walls, hot cells, nuclear waste storage tanks, coating of nuclear wastes :
- test : C.E.A. Saclay – decontaminability test (classe 1 –A)
- test : resistance to radiations : COGEMA, USSI, ORIS
- test : resistance to radiations and aging : SEPTEN.

PROTECTION AGAINST CORROSION
Applications
Pipes and buried tanks , immersed pipes and offshore structures :
- test : cathodic protection : POURQUERY laboratory,University of TAMPERE, RAUTARRUKKI
- test : diffusion of chlorides : SWCC, King Fahd institute for Petroleum
- test : resistance to impacts : ELF – 250 joules
- test : resistance to UV rays – ELF – No chalking
- test : resistance in immersion : 600 bars (C.N.E.X.O. – C.E.A.)