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Realtà Mapei 45
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ADHESIVES SEALANTS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS FOR BUILDING Mapei thanks all the readers of Realtà Mapei International for their contribution to build small and large projects. We wish we can go on building small and large dreams in the coming years. Season’s Greetings from all Mapei staff. /mapeispa

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TEAMWORK Mapei in Poland PROJECTS SPRAY-APPLIED WATERPROOFING AND LAYING CERAMIC TILES Lech Walesa Airport LAYING PORCELAIN TILES AND MOSAIC Gardens by the Bay in Singapore LAYING CERAMIC TILES Te Awa at The Base shopping centre in New Zealand WATERPROOFING PRODUCTS A Spa that is both Damp-Proof and Detachment-Proof RESTORATION OF CONCRETE, LAYING CERAMIC TILES, RESIN FLOORING M4 Underground Railway Line in Budapest LAYING GLASS MOSAIC The Makkah Clock LAYING GRANITE Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai LAYING WOODEN FLOORS Shangri-La Hotel in Toronto PORTFOLIO...

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Mapei in Poland After Gliwice, Mapei now has a foothold in Barcin with a new LEED-certied production facility ON THIS PAGE. The recently inaugurated Barcin production facility. A rapid escalation which has seen the number of production sites in Poland quadruple in just 13 years. A country strategically placed right in the heart of Europe that reaches as far as the Baltic Sea, and an important market with a booming construction sector, particularly infrastructures. The Mapei Team has grown considerably here: from just 48 employees when the facility in Gliwice was commissioned in 2003 to a...

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subsidiary company Sopro Polska. MAPEI GROUP IN POLAND: PRODUCTION AND COMMERCIAL SITES Mapei Polska •Administration and commercial headquarters: Warsaw (founded in 2000) • Gliwice production works (operational since 2003) Powdered products and liquid admixtures for concrete Cement grinding line • Barcin production works (operational since 2013) Powdered products, including adhesives for tiles, self-levelling products, repair mortars and waterproofing mortars ' Sopro Polska • Headquarters and production works in Nowiny (founded in 1994 and acquired in 2002). Systems for installing natural...

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production of adhesives and grouts for ceramics, but also as an important player in the building industry, with products for installing resilient and textile oor and wall coverings, wooden, resin and cementitious ooring, thermal insulation systems, protective and decorative paints, admixtures for concrete, waterproong products and specic products for strengthening concrete and masonry structures. Also worth a mention is the fact that, in terms of weight, 96.3% of Mapei products sold on the Polish market are produced locally (in Gliwice and Barcin), with the remaining 3.7% imported from...

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» NUMEROUS LOCALPRESENT DIGNITARIES WERE AT THE INAUGURATION CELEBRATION FACING PAGE. In the large photo a view of the production facility in Barcin. Below, two photos of the coaches used for the travelling demonstrations. ON THE TOP. From the left, the press conference and four photos of the visit around the Barcin facility and laboratories. ON THE LEFT. Giorgio Squinzi with Roberto Boselli and, below, the gala dinner and musical entertainment. A Striking Ceremony Following the ofcial opening ceremony of the new Barcin facility a tour was made around core of the works: the production line...

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PROJECTS SPRAY-APPLIED WATERPROOFING AND LAYING CERAMIC TILES

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Lech Walesa Airport The surfaces of the new terminal, in Gdansk, have been waterproofed with spray-applied MAPELASTIC Located on the shores of the Baltic Sea, Gdansk is Poland’s sixth largest city, as well as being an important shipbuilding centre and the country’s main port. It is also famous for being the birthplace of the Solidarność movement which, under the guidance of the Polish activist Lech Walesa, who later became President and after whom the city’s airport has been named, played an important role in bringing down Poland’s Communist regime. The airport is 12 kilometres northwest of...

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PROJECTS SPRAY-APPLIED WATERPROOFING AND LAYING CERAMIC TILES 2 PHOTOS 1-2. MAPELASTIC was used to waterproof the internal and external concrete surfaces. Because of the size of the work, the product was applied by spray. PHOTO 3. The stone oor tiles in the departures and arrivals area were laid with ADESILEX P4. 3 IN THE SPOTLIGHT MAPELASTIC Two-component, exible cementitious mortar for protecting and waterproong concrete surfaces, render or cementitious surfaces, based on cementitious binders, ne-grained selected aggregates, special additives and synthetic polymers dispersed in water....

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with KERACOLOR FF. The expansion joints were then sealed with MAPESIL AC. Thanks to the construction of the new Terminal 2, the capacity of Gdansk Airport is now double compared with that of the old Terminal 1 and it can now carry up to 5 million passengers a year. Also, the new layout of the internal spaces has been specially designed to cater for the needs of families travelling with young children and for the disabled. The entire building has been designed using a modular system so that in the future, if necessary, the terminal can be extended even more. PHOTO 4. The joints were grouted...

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PROJECTS LAYING PORCELAIN TILES AND MOSAIC Gardens by the Bay A futuristic park in Singapore, that unites technology and biodiversity An enormous city-garden with parks and tropical gardens surrounding every new dwelling; that is the way Singapore had been imagined when it gained its independence from the British Commonwealth in 1957. And today this tropical city is getting even closer to that ideal of perfection, thanks to the grand Gardens by the Bay project which had its rst garden inaugurated recently. In 2006 the English landscape gardeners Grant Associates and Gustafson Porter won an...

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TO THE LEFT. An aerial view of Bay South. The two large greenhouses and the SuperTrees can also be seen. TOP CENTRE OF THE PAGE. A view by night of the SuperTrees. ABOVE RIGHT. A view of Marina Bay complex. Particularly visible are the three Marina Bay Sands Resort towers (see the box on page 16) and, in the bottom left, the Art Science Museum (box on page 17). BELOW. The gardens inside the Flower Dome. e por Birth of a Grandiose Project The nga The Bay South Garden contains possibly the Si two largest greenhouses in the world, the Flower Dome and the Cloud Forest. In the rst one, a climate...

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