“The Chembond range is complete and sufficient to cater to the Indian market conditions,” explains Mangesh Patil, DGM – Construction Chemicals Division, Chembond Chemicals Ltd.

Chembond Chemicals is one of the leading manufacturers and suppliers of specialty performance chemicals to a cross section of industries across India. The company offers a series of waterproofing systems under these categories:
• Liquid applied coatings (elastomeric acrylic coatings )
• Two component ready to use cementitious-acrylic modified coating
• Single component acrylic products
• Crystalline and integral waterproofing compound
• Tar extended flexible PU coatings
• Sheet membranes (APP/SBS/TPO)
• Hydrophilic swellable water bars and sealants.

Technical specifications
Chembond products are conforming to the various specifications of ASTM, BS, EN and IS standards.

• Liquid applied coatings (elastomeric acrylic ): ASTM C 1202 – 97, BS EN 12390, ASTM D 412 – 02, ASTM C 836:1995, ASTM E 96:2000
• Single component acrylic products: ASTM C-1059 and 1059M, ASTM C-1042-85 type II, ANSI- A -118.4-1976
• Crystalline and integral waterproofing compound: IS 2645 and DIN1042
• Tar extended flexible PU coatings: ASTM D-412, C-836-05 and 84m, ASTM G-514,
• Sheet membranes (APP/SBS/TPO) – ASTM D- 1547, D-5, D-36, D-150, D-4799, C- 177 and EN 1848-1, EN 1849-1, EN 1928, EN1109, EN 1110, EN12311-1, EN 1107-1, EN13596, EN12691, EN-12730.

Application areas
• Basement and underground waterproofing
• Bathroom and sunken portion waterproofing
• Terrace and terrace garden waterproofing
• Podium parking areas in residential and commercial buildings
• Overhead and underground water tanks waterproofing
• Sewage treatment plants, power plants, refineries, railway tunnels etc.

Acceptance of Chembond products
Chembond waterproofing products are well accepted in Indian market. The company has a proven track record. The range, which Chembond is dealing in, is complete and sufficient to cater to the Indian market conditions. For the end users, it provides required cost-benefit criteria considering overall life cycle cost. Its products are used in big infrastructure projects like airports, metros, power plants and refineries.

Meeting demand
It’s one of the major growing segments for construction chemical industry. As several buildings are ageing and having severe water-leakage problems, these are leading to corrosion, structural problems, poor aesthetics, and recurrence of painting and interior expenses. Many of the old buildings are going under full or partial renovation and rehabilitation. Most of them require sound, proven waterproofing technology to replace the treatment due to the complexity involved with the conventional waterproofing like brickbat-coba, box-type or tar felt/bitumen-based waterproofing.

There is also a huge demand in number of infrastructure and residential projects all over the country. The effective waterproofing system has become inevitable in modern construction; hence, almost every construction is getting some kind of waterproofing treatments which has created a good overall demand of waterproofing products. The importance of waterproofing treatment is known to the big contractors, and construction companies have started realising it as life cycle cost and not as quick fix.

There are large numbers of small firms, operating under waterproofing segment. They are selling so called differentiated products against the standard, and there is a complete dissemination about product range among users due to low level of awareness among small contractors, and unskilled applicators are creating confusion to end users in selecting the right product for the waterproofing problem. This leads to failure of treatment, and it needs arise for the correct treatment to overcome the perennial problem.

Chembond Chemicals Ltd. is having manufacturing units in North (H.P), West (Gujarat and Maharashtra) and South (Tamil Nadu), whereas its offices and depots are in all major cities like Mumbai, Ahmedabad ,Baroda, Lucknow, Noida, Bengaluru, Kolkata etc.