Ardex
For more than 60 years, Ardex has been the quality leader for an entire industry, offering excellent building chemicals with supreme processing reliability – the brand of choice for installers and wholesalers. Ardex today is still an independent family-owned business. This means that in their permanent efforts to achieve market-shaping innovations, they have been able to retain our most important tradition: uncompromising quality.
Strong internal growth and intelligent acquisitions in foreign markets today put the Ardex Group on the map with 40 subsidiaries and 2,020 employees in over 50 countries on all continents – boasting a virtually end-to-end presence in their core market of Europe.
Today, Ardex is one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-quality specialist building materials. The company managed to reduce the drying periods of sub-floor smoothing compounds. This invention enabled the company to manufacture “quick-setting” screeds, which become fully usable after 24 hours, i.e. installation of the finish top cover is possible after 24 hours. For conventional screeds, the drying period required is about 28 days even today. Using the “quick-setting smoothing compounds”, top floor cover can be laid as soon as after one hour.
In the course of the years, the product range was extended and today comprises all relevant ranges of chemistry-based construction products: building shell products for concrete finishing and repair, bitumen-based products for waterproofing of building structures, quick-setting cements, screeds, sub-floor preparation agents, sub-floor smoothing compounds, epoxy-based industrial floor coverings for floor areas in private and industrial premises, sealing compounds to be applied beneath tiles, adhesives for tiles, natural stones and insulating materials, joint mortar for tiles and marble, sealing compounds for the building trade, wall smoothing compounds for smoothing wall surfaces, floor covering and parquetry adhesives for carpets and parquetry etc.
