ADVA® Cast High-Range Water Reducers

A high-range water reducing admixture for the precast/prestressed concrete industry. With excellent placeability and workability, flow through congested forms without segregation, high early strength: there is an ADVA® CAST water reducer to meet all your needs.

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Overview

What is ADVA® Cast?

ADVA® Cast is a series of high-efficiency, polycarboxylate-based, high-range, water-reducing admixtures for the precast/prestressed concrete industry. In addition to providing excellent water reduction, ADVA® Cast products generate higher compressive strengths, better slump retention, improved rheology, enhanced air control, superior finishability and robustness across a wide range of materials, including both flowable and self-consolidating concrete.

Technical services for every application

Concerned about how to use ADVA® Cast for your project? Don't be. GCP maintains a worldwide team of professionals to consult with concrete producers. For more information on the best ADVA® Cast product for your mix, contact GCP today.

High-strength SCC

Solve challenging forms, improve efficiency and quality with high-strength SCC

Self-consolidating concrete is a highly flowable, non-segregating concrete that spreads into place, fills formwork, self-compacts and encapsulates even the most congested reinforcement, all without any mechanical vibration. This type of concrete flows evenly around complex or congested forms without segregation.

Self-consolidating concrete produced with ADVA® Cast products provides unique advantages over conventional flowing concrete:

  • Lower self-consolidating concrete viscosity
  • Self-placement
  • No segregation
  • No blocking
  • Improved finishes

This results in high-quality, high performance, precast concrete elements.

ADVA® Cast and the GCP Air Management System

Precast/prestressed concrete often requires air entrainment to improve its freezing and thawing durability. Entrained air must be present in the correct concentration (air content %) and also fall within industry specified parameters (e.g. spacing factor, size of the air bubbles, etc.) in order to be fully effective and in compliance, ADVA® Cast 585 contains a special (patent pending) deformer package designed to develop a stable air void system consisting of smaller air bubbles, which helps meet specifications and performance requirements.

In addition to providing an excellent air void system and benefits of a high-range water-reducer, ADVA® Cast 585 can be combined with AIRtrac™, a sensor that measures the temperature and total air content of concrete in real time while mixing. When combined, these products and technologies provide for a complete AIR Management System.

Products & Accessories

  • Product Name
  • Description
  • Key Benefits
  • Applications Type
ADVA® Cast 535 Data Sheet
ADVA® Cast 535 Data Sheet Visit ADVA® Cast 535 Data Sheet page
Description

ADVA® Cast 535 admixture is a high efficiency, polycarboxylate-based high-range water reducer designed for the production of a wide range of concrete mixes, from conventional to Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC).

Key Benefits
  • Excellent dosage efficiency also moisture control
  • Excellent entrained air quality
  • Enhanced strength development
Application Type
  • Formulated to impart improved workability to the concrete and to achieve high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.
ADVA® Cast 555 Data Sheet
ADVA® Cast 555 Data Sheet Visit ADVA® Cast 555 Data Sheet page
Description

ADVA® Cast 555 is a high efficiency polycarboxylate-based superplasticizer. ADVA® Cast 555 has been formulated to impart maximum desired workability without segregation to concrete and to achieve high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.

Key Benefits
  • Superior air entrainment control
  • Excellent concrete cohesiveness
  • Enhanced tolerance to slight moisture variability
Application Type
  • Recommended for use in precast and prestressed production in conventional and SCC applications.
ADVA® Cast 575 Data Sheet
ADVA® Cast 575 Data Sheet Visit ADVA® Cast 575 Data Sheet page
Description

ADVA® Cast 575 is a high efficiency, low addition rate polycarboxylate-based high-range water reducer designed for the production of a wide range of concrete mixes, from conventional to Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC).

Key Benefits
  • Superior air entrainment control
  • Enhanced concrete cohesiveness
  • Superior finish on cast surfaces
Application Type
  • Formulated to impart improved workability to the concrete and to achieve high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.
ADVA® Cast 585 Data Sheet
ADVA® Cast 585 Data Sheet Visit ADVA® Cast 585 Data Sheet page
Description

ADVA® Cast 585 admixture is a high efficiency, low addition rate polycarboxylate-based high-range water reducer designed for the production of a wide range of concrete mixes, from conventional to Self Consolidating Concrete.

Key Benefits
  • Excellent dosage efficiency, moisture control and air control
  • Superior air entrainment control
  • Enhanced concrete cohesiveness
Application Type
  • Formulated to impart improved workability to the concrete and to achieve high early compressive strength as required by the precast industry.
ADVA® Cast 593 Data Sheet
ADVA® Cast 593 Data Sheet Visit ADVA® Cast 593 Data Sheet page
Description

ADVA® Cast 593 is a high efficiency, low addition rate polycarboxylate-based high-range water reducer designed for the production of a wide range of concrete mixes, from conventional to Self-Consolidating Concrete (SCC).

Key Benefits
  • Excellent dosage efficiency, moisture control and air control
  • Fast dispersion "wet-out"
  • Enhanced concrete cohesiveness with low viscosity for rapid placement
  • Superior finish on cast surfaces
  • Excellent strength development
Application Type
ADVA® Cast 600 Data Sheet
ADVA® Cast 600 Data Sheet Visit ADVA® Cast 600 Data Sheet page
Description

ADVA® Cast 600 is a polycarboxylate based high-range water reducer designed for the production of conventional and Self Consolidating Concrete and is formulated to provide extended slump life along with excellent workability without segregation.

Key Benefits
  • Excellent moisture and air control
  • Extended slump retention up to one hour
  • Excellent early and later age compressive strength
Application Type
  • Used for the production of Self Consolidating Concrete (SCC) in precast/prestressed applications and may also be used in conventional concrete production.

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