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Anti-corrosion
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Curing agent
Concrete sealers
Residential
Anti-corrosion
Industrial & floors
Curing agent
Concrete sealers
Residential
Inorganic ceramic coating technology
Zirconia's CeramycGuard™ transforms the surface of concrete into a skin of granite that ends corrosion, dramatically increasing the lifespan of the asset.
“A great development of materials, simple to use and meeting multiple applications.”
The problem
Water, salt, carbonation and acids travel through the pore network and attack the concrete from within, breaking down the cement binder that protects the reinforcing steel. As the binder degrades, the steel corrodes, and the structure cracks, spalls and slowly fails. This is not a coatings problem. It is a chemistry problem, and it takes a chemistry solution.
Restore. Protect. Preserve.
The Zirconia approach begins beneath the surface. An alumina-doped colloidal treatment penetrates the concrete and rebuilds its chemistry into a denser, more stable state before the ceramic layer goes on. Competitor coatings sit on whatever the concrete happens to be. Ours bond to a substrate we have already engineered to receive them.
We reconstruct the cement paste itself. The alumina-doped colloidal chemistry consumes the weak phase of the matrix and rebuilds it as C-A-S-H, the durable, corrosion-resistant form of the binder, denser and more cross-linked than before.
We protect the cement structure from chemical attack. The restored matrix resists the carbonation, chloride and acid that break concrete down, and re-bonds passive microcracks (up to roughly 5 mm with CeramycGuard) so there is no path back in.
We preserve the concrete long term behind a barrier. CeramycGuard™ grows into the restored surface as one continuous network, sealing it against environmental corrosion (salt, carbonation, biological) with no interface to peel, flake or delaminate.
Restore, protect, preserve: one continuous chemistry, from inside the concrete out to the surface.
Roman cement reborn
CeramycGuard is based on micronized Roman Cement technology, an alumina-silicate geopolymer, combined with modern nano-scaled ceramic elements. It chemically bonds with the concrete surface to create an ultra-durable anti-corrosion barrier.
This skin of granite eliminates porosity, fixes cracks and restores the surface. Like the geopolymer cements the Romans used to build structures still standing today, it has an effectively indefinite lifespan.
Industrial coatings
Using CeramycGuard as a base layer with inorganic-organic hybrid topcoats, Zirconia builds coating systems that chemically bond to concrete and deliver performance epoxies cannot match.
Becomes part of the substrate. Will not delaminate like epoxy or urethane topcoats.
Antimicrobial surface that disallows biofilm formation. Ideal for food and biosecurity.
High resistance to chemical and acid attack in aggressive industrial environments.
Engineered traction that is bonded in, not a sacrificial coating sitting on top.
Granite-hard surface that withstands traffic, abrasion and freeze-thaw cycling.
Proof in the field
Acid-resistant, antimicrobial floors for food processing and beverage production.
Corrosion reversed and the concrete asset durably protected against carbonation and salt.
A high-temperature glass-phase system that shields concrete from fire, radiant heat and thermal shock.
Talk to our technical team about CeramycGuard for your concrete or steel infrastructure.
Questions
An inorganic, alumina-silicate ceramic coating that chemically bonds with concrete to form a granite-like surface immune to corrosion, carbonation, salt, UV and freeze-thaw.
Epoxies and urethanes adhere to the surface and can delaminate. CeramycGuard chemically bonds and becomes part of the concrete, so it does not peel and it lasts the life of the asset.
New and existing concrete infrastructure: reservoirs, bridges, food and beverage facilities, data centers and coastal structures exposed to salt corrosion.
Yes. The surface is antimicrobial, disallows biofilm formation and resists acids, which suits food manufacturing, processing and biosecurity applications.
It protects by chemistry, not by forming a barrier. The restored C-A-S-H matrix holds pore-water pH in the alkaline range that keeps reinforcing steel passive (around 11.5 to 12.5), and its aluminate sites bind incoming chlorides, holding them away from the steel while the matrix keeps the pore solution alkaline. Carbonation cannot propagate through a fully restored C-A-S-H matrix. This is chemistry restoration, not a film sitting on the surface.