ELOTEX FX5600 New Product Development

ELOTEX FX5600 for Highly flexible thin-bed mortars (RPP > 7%)

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ELOTEX FX5600 New Product Development

Background Information For the application of tiles onto balconies and terraces, screeds for floor heating systems or even critical substrates such as isolation boards, ETICS or tile-on-tile so called 2-componentic tile adhesives as well as 1-componentic speciality CTAs (RPP > 7%) have been used in the past. In general these products have the disadvantage that according to EN 12004 the requirements for C2-S2 tile adhesive could not be fulfilled: the more emulsion powder was used to achieve S2, the less good the wet adhesion turned out to be. This lead in the worst possible cases to an increased number of claims of exterior applied 1-componentic systems. Target of NPD The target of this new product development was to find a polymer solution that provides high flexibility and improved wet adhesion. ELOTEX FX5600 in a RPP-dosage preferably around 10 -12 wt-% (depending on recipe) fulfills these requirements. And how it does, we will explain here
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ELOTEX FX5600 New Product Development

Chemical Composition (extract out of TDS): ELOTEX FX5600 is a redispersible binder based on the copolymer of ethylene, vinyl acetate, vinyl versatate und butylacrylate. Appearance Bulk density Residual moisture maximum Ash TGA 1000C pH value Tg Min. film building temp. Film properties free-flowing, white powder 350 - 550 g/l 1.0 % 4% +/- 1.5 % 6.0 7.5 (as a 10% dispersion in water) approx. -3C 0C opaque, flexible
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Adhesion Strength under Difficult Storage Conditions ELOTEX FX5600 30 Mechanisms, Microstructures and Properties

Vitreous ceramic tile

10 m

Mortar after wet-storage

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Know how related to our New Product Development

Mortar Wetting behavior and wetting structure Polymer-cement interaction optimized setting and early strength development reduced water uptake due to micro composites Water resistant polymer-bonds adhesion strength Reduction of cracking at tile-mortar interface Optimized hydration process (rehydration) during water immersion Prevention of formation of large Pordlandite aggregates Polymer Monomer composition Test Shear deformation

alkali resistance Tg (strength, flexibility)

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Modes of Action of ELOTEX FX5600

Optimized Fresh Mortar Properties - Optimized rheology - Optimized open time Optimized Polymer Properties - Reduced acetate saponification less mass reduction and less embrittlement - Optimized acrylate saponification Formation of water resistant polymer-cement composite structures - Hydrophobic monomers - Optimized Tg Optimized Rehydration - Ideal rehydration - No Phenocrysts increased cement-derived adhesion strength after water immersion less shrinkage cracks
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ideal workability (especially for floor application) good wetting of tiles ensured

reduced water uptake increased shear and adhesion strength and flexibility properties

ELOTEX FX5600 Improved Wet-adhesion at high RPP-dosages

2,25

Shear deform ation [m m ]

0,10 HFWP1 0,08 0,06 0,04 0,02 0,00 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 HFWP2 REF1 REF2

2,00

HFWP1 HFWP2 REF1 REF2

Wet adhesion [N/mm2]

1,75 1,50 1,25 1,00 0,75 0,50 0 2

10

12

14

16

RPP [wt-%]

RPP [wt-%]

Wet adhesion vs RPP-content

Flexibility vs RPP-content

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ELOTEX FX5600 - Improved wet adhesion at high RPP dosages

ELOTEX FX5600 (optimized monomer composition)
Wet-adhesion [N/mm2]

FX5600 derived strength component

FX5600
15 20

Ethylene Vinyl acetate Vinyl versatate Acrylate

optimized reduced optimized optimized

flexibility alkali resistance hydrophobicity cross-linking strength, adhesion flexibility due to no embrittlement

cement derived strength component

0 5 10

densified microstructure no Phenocrysts

Wet-adhesion [N/mm2]

Polymer derived strength contribution

1

Common RPPs REF

15 20
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Cement derived strength component

0 5 10 RPP [wt-%]

Hydrophilic character Saponification No cross-linking Phenocrysts

fast penetration of water mass reduction, embrittlement no permanent composite structures embrittlement, increased crack-formation

No Phenocrysts no embrittlement ! 29

24

100 m
4% FX5600

100 m
4%REF-L05

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No influence on setting of mortar

Setting temperature in 2 formulations

30 Setting temperature [C] 29 28 27 26 25 0 6 12 18 24 Tim e [h] 30 36 42 48 4% FX5600-1 4% REF-3 4% FX5600-1 4% REF-3

REF = Standard RPP

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Water penetration during water immersion

4% REF 6h 9h 24 h 32 h 57 h 60 h 7d

4% FX5600

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Water-penetration and Swelling of Mortar

REF

FX5600

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Adhesion Strength after dry / wet storage (28 d)

FX5600 dry

FX5600 wet
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Continuous Development of Wet-adhesion

FX5600

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ELOTEX FX5600 - Adhesion strength according to EN12004

N/mm

3.00 2.50 2.00 1.50 1.00

0.58 1.44 2.25

2.81

Offene Zeit.30' 30 Open time Trocken Dry

1.59

Nass Wet WHeat rme

F/T FTW

0.50 0.00
Slip resistance (EN1308) Horizontal deformation (EN12002) Shear deformation 0.4 mm 5.78 mm 63 m

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ELOTEX FX5600 Starting Formulation

Highly flexible thin-bed mortar (C2TE-S2) CTA 7 Applications Highly flexible ceramic tile adhesive for application of porous, vitreous and fully vitrified ceramic tiles on walls and floors.
Formulation Portland Cement CEM I 52.5 Lightweight Filler 0.1 0.3 mm Quartz Sand 0.1 - 0.3 mm Cellulose Ether 8000 10000 mPa.s Calcium Formate Sodium Gluconate ELOTEX Redispersible Powder FX5600 approx. Parts 35.00 5.00 46.80 0.30 0.80 0.10 12.00 100.00 Water approx. 18%
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