Strength. Performance. Passion.

New horizons for self-compacting concrete

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The new concrete technology used in Agilia™ products allows for placing without difficulty, providing excellent quality concrete with superior surface finishes. Agilia™ gives flexibility on worksites at all levels, for all types of vertical and precast applications. Agilia™ solutions for foundations and horizontal applications are coming soon.

Agilia™advantages

• Reduced effort on site when placing concrete

• Faster placing process

• High-quality fill for vertical components

• Fewer pouring points

• High surface quality designed to suit our customers' needs

• Virtually self-levelling for slabs and floors

• No vibration required

• Reduced noise impact

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Agilia™a complete range of self-compacting concretes

Agilia™ speeds up concrete work due to fewer concrete delivery points, the possibility of pouring up to 9 metres at a time, less placing labour requirement, no vibration needed and excellent smoothness.

The flowing properties of Agilia™ concretes ease placement significantly, by reducing the number of pour points and operations on the worksite. Structures with complex configurations can be poured, especially where heavy reinforcement or very long formwork is involved. The product’s impressive ease of levelling enables swift and easy coverage of large elements.

Eliminates the need for vibration. Improves safety and working conditions. Reduces excess noise on worksites.

The characteristics and reliability of the Agilia™ family of products offers better worksite organisation, with reduced pouring points, crane handling and more efficient labour utilisation for concrete work. Depending on the application, superior surface quality can be attained with reduced finishing work.

Reduceslabourtime

Worksiteflexibility

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Agilia™innovation

Agilia™ mix design stems from tight control on twoseemingly opposite physical properties: fluidityandstability.

Fluidity is necessary to provide easy concrete placement and a high-quality finish with minimum effort. At the same time, it can increase segregation, which can lead to uneven hardened material, cracks and blemishes. On the other hand, stability is necessary to prevent segregation but can lead to high viscosity and poor placement. Reconciling these two opposite requirements is a further challenge since fresh concrete is subject to a wide variety of mechanical stresses from the batching plant to placement depending on the process, environment and application.

Agilia™ offers a robust solution based on granularpacking concepts and on the latest discoveries in organicchemistry,mineralchemistryand fluidmechanics applied to fresh concrete.

Strict control of mix design technology enables optimal application of cement properties and allows Agilia™ to retain itsslumpforupto90minutes.Nowater is tobeadded on site. Yet setting time is controlled and earlystrength is comparable to conventional concrete.

Holcim provides a complete range of Agilia™ productssuited to the needs of each worksite application,with mechanical or aesthetic benefits, in precast andverticalapplications.

Agilia™offersafullrangeofproductsadaptedtoindividualapplications.

The product formulas are based on cutting-edge knowledge of mechanical and chemical phenomena that govern plastic concrete rheology, from in-plant mixing to formwork setting.

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Customer-driven

innovation

LafargeHolcim Research& Development (R&D) is driven by our customers, who face some of today’s major challenges: achieving energy efficiency, lowering cost of construction, reducing our environmental footprint, and meeting high standards of aesthetics, health, comfort, and well-being.

Together with our partners and customers, our best-in-class R&D teams develop the most innovative products, solutions, and services.

Each second, LafargeHolcim delivers concrete to one of countless construction projects around the world. Every day our team of technical and sales representatives interact with customers at over 6,000 different sites. Innovation is our way of addressing the needs we encounter through these interactions.

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