Zuari Blended Cement the eco-friendly, user-friendly cement

Zuari Blended Cement has been developed in response to today’s need for environment-friendly products that are cost-effective, durable and have minimal by-products.

Durability is a very important property in concrete. And durability here means concrete that ensures the long life span of structures like homes and residences that are lifetime investments. Since distress of concrete and early failure of structures is a common phenomenon, research over a period of time helped develop various remedial measures that improved durability and cost economics. One of them being blended Portland Cement, with complementary pozzolanic and cementitious materials like fly ash, blast furnace slag, etc. And Zuari Blended Cement is a fine example of it.

Factors that make Zuari Blended cement more durable

• Lower heat of hydration
  The heat of hydration of Zuari blended cement is lower at early stages as compared to ordinary and rapid hardening cement. Thus preventing irreversible cracks caused by thermal stresses at the early stages.
• Increased bulk volume
  
  Zuari blended Cement gives more cement volume per bag as compared to ordinary cement because the specific gravity of Zuari blended cement is much lower than Portland cement.
• Improved water tightness
  
  Since the fly ash gel pores in Zuari blended become narrowed by hydration of fly ash, it offers greater resistance to aggressive chemicals in the environment. It has minimum segregation and bleeding, much lower when compared with other Portland pozzolana cements.
• Improved Corrosion resistance
  
  As movement of corrosion causing soluble chlorides is restricted, corrosion of reinforcement steel is reduced by using Zuari blended Cement.
• Increased ultimate Strength
  
  Zuari blended Cement is produced by blending high quality fly ash with a superior quality clinker. This provides very high compressive strength for 28 days. Additionally, Zuari blended cement gains strength for 60 days, slowly and consistently, as against 14 days by ordinary cement helping constructions gain in durability.
• Increased compressive Strength
  
  Zuari blended Cement improves durability of the concrete /mortar in cases of mass construction and enhances long term gain of compressive strengths.
• For the benefit of customers
  
  Concrete in its early stages is tender and weak. This is the stage when it is more likely to develop cracks that can never be rectified. Pay extra attention to curing, as it imparts the structure long term high strength.