Chem Concrete is a specialist collective in advanced concrete materials, combining academic research and field practice to develop new solutions in concrete durability, waterproofing, and sustainability. Drawing on decades of academic and industry experience, the team integrates rigorous testing with practical applications across Australia, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and other countries. It aims to create longer-lasting, low-maintenance, and sustainable concrete through deliberate experimentation and scalable innovation.
The company's founders, a team of concrete materials scientists and industry experts, including Dr. Sam Soheil Jahandari and Aida Rahmani, transformed a decade of their research in concrete technology into a commercial offering. Guided by Distinguished Professor Zhong Tao, whose academic leadership shaped the early laboratory investigations, their work advanced from academic inquiry into practical formulation.
During routine testing, they discovered a hybrid waterproofing and durability-enhancing mechanism, which they refined through sustained trials. This academic foundation was reinforced by practitioners with extensive experience in ready-mix concrete and construction, helping transform the formulation into practical applications.
Industry veterans then helped bridge research and commercial deployment. Among them, Jim Kaylor contributed decades of ready-mix and quality control expertise, opening pathways for faster adoption in North America and beyond. His perspective reflects the company's ethos. "We believe true innovation in concrete is the ability to shape materials around the realities of construction, so that durability, waterproofing, and sustainability become part of everyday practice," Kaylor says.
Building on this blend of academic rigor and practical insight, Chem Concrete has defined a mission focused on delivering more resilient concrete while balancing lifecycle cost and environmental impact, and delivering the greatest Sustainability Value Proposition currently available. The company provides a liquid admixture designed for seamless integration into standard batching practices, along with technical support for mix design and placement, able to eliminate substantial amounts of cement, concrete's greatest contributing pollution element. Its guidance helps contractors and specifiers adopt the technology in ways that align with operational requirements, making durability, waterproofing, and sustainability achievable within existing project delivery documents and systems.
"What makes this admixture different is its multifunctional mechanism. It's meant to work with the way people already build, while adding strength, durability, and permanent waterproofing at the material level," Kaylor explains. The formulation promotes pore disruption, hydrophobic response, microscopic densification, and autogenous self-healing of the concrete matrix.
According to Chem Concrete, this novel combination of mechanisms drastically reduces the continuity of capillary networks, severely disrupting water movement and limiting access for corrosive agents. The chemistry operates at the molecular level while concrete cures in familiar ways, allowing contractors and producers to adopt it without major changes to established workflows.
Environmental considerations are part of the design as well. The admixture uses earth-derived inputs selected for low processing impact and avoids volatile organics or harsh additives. By significantly enhancing strength, it supports mix designs that aim to reduce cement demand, which in turn lowers the carbon footprint of concrete projects. Chem Concrete frames this as incremental contributions to sustainability, improvements that fit within existing production and placement models, offering environmental gains while remaining attentive to cost and constructability.
"From the beginning, we've focused on validating performance," Kaylor states. "Extensive independent lab tests and standards-based evaluations have helped us see how well the admixture performs, and trial and field applications in different climates have aided us in refining it for greater resilience. By targeting pore-network disruption and densification, the product helps mitigate factors linked to premature deterioration, including reinforcement corrosion and material loss. The outcome is longer serviceability and reduced maintenance, achieved through material-level improvement rather than relying solely on temporary surface coatings or membranes.
Chem Concrete emphasizes that the applications for the technology are broad. It is suited to reinforced structural elements, infrastructure exposed to aggressive environments, marine installations, industrial slabs, routine flatwork where waterproofing adds value, and all sustainability-driven projects. Delivered as a liquid compatible with modern batching systems, the admixture is positioned as an operationally feasible solution for producers and contractors. Chem Concrete's technical team supports integration with mix-design practices.
The Chem Concrete's R&D team continues to refine its formulation, extending applicability from laboratory validation to wider deployment. Kaylor notes, "Change in construction tends to be incremental, and good innovation earns its place by making everyday decisions easier for the people who run projects." This perspective reflects the company's commitment to practical innovation, solutions that align performance, cost, and environmental priorities in ways that are realistic for industry adoption.
