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The Premium Asphalt Sealcoat System

Take Advantage of the Technology that Space Exploration has brought to Asphalt Pavement Protection!

  Receives a thicker, heavier "Investment -Grade" Sealcoat 
  Easy to Use - Ready to Go 
  Dries Fast - Use Day or Night 
  Clean up with water 
  No Noxious odors 
  Environmentally & User Safe 
 Read Below for more information

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SteelGuard is the product of the Carbonyte ProcessTM, a technology derived from a decade of vigorous polymer science research and team development within the Lockheed Martin* Missile and Space Company.  This process utilizes nano-ceramics and ionized minerals which are selectively introduced to create a totally new concept in asphalt maintenance product design.  The Carbonyte ProcessTM converts asphalt into a superior-performing thermoplastic.  Modifying the molecular bonds within the asphalt emulsion and mixture substantially improves the asphalt’s ductility, raises it’s softening point, increases adhesion to mineral surfaces, and renders the finished product insoluble. 

 

And with SteelGuard, it takes less material to produce better results.  One coat of SteelGuard gives you more material than two coats of the typical asphalt sealer, and for less money!
 

NEW!! Apply SteelGuard at night!

Staging a Sealcoat project at a busy shopping center or other parking lot can be a challenge. Blackened terracotta, footprints on the sidewalks, sealer on the carpets, trucks driving through barricades, (having fun yet?) cones drug under cars, yellow caution ribbon hanging from bumpers…and sometimes it gets worse, rain hits before the sealer has dried. You get the idea.

Carbonyte Systems, Inc has good news and it's called the Carbonyte Process™. Read more here

 

Benefits of SteelGuard to...

 

Customers

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Receives a thicker, heavier 'investment grade' Sealcoat.

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Surface is tougher, more durable and scuff resistant than other products - even those that have polymers and additives added.

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Sealcoating can be done at night, if necessary or during off-season temperatures where others should fear to tread.

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Faster curing rates means minimal interruptions for areas such as drive-thru windows.

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Meets the description of 'GRAS' - Generally Regarded As Safe - Contains no
    Formaldehyde or other biocides.

Contractors

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Material may be squeegee or spray
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Higher solids content means more net material on the pavement, less water to evaporate.

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No Tracking or bleeding once cured.

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High resistance to power steering marks and scuffing.

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Faster curing, cures from the bottom up so that the appearance of dry is dry.

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Facilitates micronized water transport during condensation, reducing the time to reach film formation.

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Asphalt cross-links as it cures, producing a thermoplastic coating.

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Faster curing capabilities means nighttime work becomes a reality.

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Faster curing capabilities means a longer season.

Manufacturers

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Eliminates the need for expensive synthetic emulsifiers, saves money on emulsion costs.

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Eliminates the need for formaldehyde or other biocides.

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Finished product cross-links as it cures, no liquid polymers needed

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Improves storage and shipping stability

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Produces a longer lasting tougher product at competitive costs.

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Does not re-emulsify.

 

 

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Applying SteelGuard at Night

at night

 

Sealcoating at night takes the pressure off of busy shopping centers.

When sealcoating retail properties with a Carbonyte Process™, the difference can be... 

NIGHT AND DAY

Reprinted with permission from the Asphalt Advisor

We’ve all been there, trying to stage a Sealcoat project, wringing our hands over the planning and execution of perhaps the Achilles heel of the pavement maintenance business, sealcoating a busy shopping center. Even with the best laid plans potential disaster looms. Blackened terracotta, footprints on the sidewalks, sealer on the carpets, trucks driving through barricades, (having fun yet?) cones drug under cars, yellow caution ribbon hanging from bumpers…and sometimes it gets worse, rain hits before the sealer has dried.

Property management is getting calls every hour from angry tenants. Not enough parking, sealer "everywhere," an employee is blocked in and needs to leave NOW, we have no customers, Gee that stuff smells terrible – and "who’s going to pay for our lost business!"

Ever stop to think why a bunch of otherwise pretty smart contractors will beat each other up to see who will have the privilege of going through this torture and potential risk for the least amount of money? Well, there’s light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not a train. Rayner Protective Materials (RPM), in conjunction with Natural Composites, LLC has good news and it’s called the Carbonyte Process.™

 The Carbonyte Process™ utilizes reactive nano-ceramics to manipulate carbon bonds within the asphalt molecules to substantially improve many important asphalt qualities.

The Carbonyte Process™ assures longer lasting, improved hot and cold weather performance for roofing, waterproofing and road binder asphalts.

The Carbonyte Process™ is now being used to produce asphalt-based sealcoats marketed under such names as SteelGuard™, XLR8™, Black Diamond™, CapCoat™ and Tuff Coat™, which are revolutionizing the Sealcoat world. In these pavement systems, the Carbonyte Process™ develops nano-ceramic technology to improve the asphalt’s ductility, raise it’s softening point, and increase adhesion to mineral surfaces which renders an insoluble, cured film with a noticeable reduction in curing times.

Perhaps the best way to tell you about the Carbonyte Process™ is to walk you through a shopping center Sealcoat job.

California Pavement Maintenance Company (CPM) is a Sacramento based pavement maintenance contractor and Sealcoat manufacturer licensed to use the Carbonyte Process™. CPM manufactures a premium Sealcoat under the name of SteelGuard™. The following is their experience.

The project was a shopping center called Village Square in El Dorado Hills, California. It is a neighborhood center with about 300,000 square feet of parking. The center is 100% leased and is anchored by Raley’s, the area’s most popular grocer.  Raley’s opens at 6:00 AM and closes at 10:00 PM. Most of the other Village Square stores’ hours are 10:00 AM – 9:00 PM and these include several trendy restaurants and other popular retailers. This center is extremely busy and parking is tight.

CPM had been told that it might just be impossible to close the center during the day. That was confirmed with one trip to the site at 7:00 PM on a Sunday. Traffic was circling, looking for parking spots. Night work was the only solution and thanks to the curing properties of SteelGuard™, night work was an option open to them — even with the two-coat requirement. More on that later.

The project was staged for two move-ins. The first was a Sunday night and CPM’s crew arrived on the property at 8:30 PM. By 9:00 PM they had captured the back of the main lot and began cleaning. By 10:00 PM enough businesses had closed that CPM could begin capturing the remaining area for that night’s work.

 

 

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At 11:30 PM Raley’s had closed and CPM had the main road in front of the center cleaned and sealed. At 2:30 AM all of the sealing was done. At 4:30 AM the crew was snapping lines for the new stripes. By the time Raley’s opened at 6:00 AM their roadway and much of their parking area was sealed, striped and open for the many customers who start their day at the Raley’s deli (enjoying their great morning coffee and pastries!).

By 9:00 AM all of Raley’s parking was opened with the balance of the parking available by 10:00 AM when the other stores open for business. This was later than we expected due to one of those "Murphy’s Law" factors — live water flowing over a portion of the lot from a neighboring landscaping system which went on at 3:00 in the morning and ran until 10:00 AM. Fortunately, there was no re-emulsification of the Sealcoat, a real thumbs up for SteelGuard™!

On Tuesday night CPM had a smaller area to Sealcoat because most of the roadways were already sealed. They moved in at 9:00 PM and were done sealing by 2:00 AM. At 9:00 AM the next morning the striping was done and the entire parking lot was available for the shopping center.

The result? No angry tenants, no angry customers, no lost shopping center business and CPM didn’t have to split the lot over a large number of days. "Truth is, we were pretty much invisible to the tenants!" states CPM’s Chip Van Abel.

The equipment used on this project consisted of a CPM built Sealcoat truck with a 3,000-gallon tank (full sweep mixer), a Kubota Tractor with hydraulic controlled 12’ squeegee and the various hand tools necessary to perform the work. CPM also uses Sealcoat machines in their operations as well as spray systems. The tractor was chosen for this project due the layout of the lot and production speed needed to place two coats of sealer quickly.

Night operations call for particular attention to safety issues. Crews are working with a liquid system, which reflects light and makes seeing their work difficult. It can be difficult to see crewmembers in the shadows and glare so the potential for injury is heightened. To counter these problems CPM staged the job with the following:

- Lighted barricades to protect the work area along with yellow warning tape.

- A full time non-working supervisor was assigned to the project to watch for safety problems and perform quality control.

- Crewmembers were provided with a reflective safety vest and clip on strobe light.

- High performance lights were mounted on both the Sealcoat truck and the tractor.

- Large portable construction light towers were used to flood the work area with light.

All of these precautions improved safety but the key to laying a two-coat, squeegee-applied Sealcoat at night was a high performance Sealcoat system. SteelGuard™ was the essential key to the success of this project.

The Carbonyte Process™ is the real heart of the SteelGuard™ performance design and is the reason why products like SteelGuard™ not only dry quickly, but dry from the bottom of the coating to the top, a feature unheard of in the asphalt sealcoating industry. Carbonyte sealcoats contain various active ion surfaces which, while in a storage mode, provide suspension and stability characteristics, but when spread on pavement and fully exposed to the atmosphere, cross-link the mineral and asphalt components causing them to shed water and forcing it to the surface. We call this reaction "Activated Curing".

As you can guess, this technology didn’t just happen by accident.

It all started with technology derived from NASA research by a team of scientists led by Lockheed Martin* Missiles & Space Company during the Orbiter Re-Entry Thermal Shield Program. This program focused on tougher, more durable materials to withstand the hardships of earth re-entry for the Space Shuttle. Much of the new ceramic science from that development has been used in the creation of the Carbonyte Process™.

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An exclusive worldwide manufacturing license for this technology has been granted to Natural Composites, LLC, a subsidiary of Carbonyte Systems, Inc.

For pavement protection systems, this process utilizes reactive nano-ceramics, which are selectively introduced to create a totally new concept in asphalt Sealcoat design. In short, the Carbonyte Process™ converts asphalt into a superior-performing thermoplastic.

Nighttime sealing is possible with Carbonyte Process™ systems because of several factors:
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A high solids content means less water to move out of the Sealcoat

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The reactive ion blend cross-links asphalt and mineral surfaces and squeezes the water out of the system.

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The Sealcoat contains no bound micronized water (such as in latex additives) and has no water retaining components such as wood fiber.

Carbonyte Process™ systems rapidly push the water to the upper surface of the coating. Once moved, the final evaporation rate is limited only by the factors of air temperature, pavement temperature, sun load, wind and humidity.

The difference in cure rate, between having to rely on the atmosphere to draw the water out of conventional systems, verses simply whisking away water already driven out of a Carbonyte Process™ system is dramatic!

Conventional sealcoats cure from the top down, and even though they can look dry, they still may not be ready for traffic. With the Carbonyte Process™ and "Activated Curing", sealcoats cure from the bottom up - when it looks dry, it is dry!

"Activated Curing" is just one of the advantages of the Carbonyte Process™. The cross-linking which takes place during curing produces an inorganic polymerization, which results in a superior performing thermoplastic film with these additional advantages:

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A tougher cured surface without the use of expensive latex additives

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No tracking

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A high resistance to power steering scuff marks are nearly non-existent

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No loss of seal due to re-emulsification

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Longer surface life for your customers

Customers love it for a number of reasons. They have peace of mind knowing that Carbonyte systems contain no biocides or formaldehyde – it meets the EPA’s definition of "GRAS" – Generally Regarded As Safe. Customers’ properties stay cleaner because Carbonyte systems will not delaminate or re-emulsify. Accelerated curing minimizes the chance of someone stepping in and tracking wet sealer. It does not track even under the hottest conditions. Customers also love the smell – there isn’t any! No toxic components, no biocides and no smell!

Most importantly, it saves them money. Major grocers have said that dividing their lot in half can cost them $10,000 a day in lost business. Splitting a lot over more days creates even more inconvenience and lost revenue. "Activated Curing" means faster daytime operations and opens the door to nighttime applications.

Due to the built in cross-linking and waterproof properties, Carbonyte systems are substantially more durable than conventional systems. In fact, Carbonyte systems not only pass the ISSA Wet Track Abrasion Test with 1-Hour soak; they also pass the advanced 6-Day soak used for Microsurfacing. This is toughness built in, not added on.

"Customer satisfaction has been so strong that, based on the property management company’s prior experience with the product, CPM recently was awarded a project that required nearly 100,000 gallons of SteelGuard" – relates Ken Weiss, sales manager for CPM. "A Carbonyte Process™ system is a tremendous value for virtually all users."

The benefits to contractors are huge. Carbonyte systems with "Activated Curing" allows Sealcoat to be placed at night and during cooler weather which also extends the season – contractors can start earlier in the year and seal later in the fall. "Activated Curing" and cross-linking chemistry means more protection if a sudden weather change occurs. This translates into higher annual revenues and less risk of environmental problems.

Carbonyte Process™ Sealcoat manufacturers save money on emulsion costs because there is no need for expensive synthetic emulsifiers, no need for any formaldehyde or biocides, no need for any fibers and no need for any liquid polymers. Yet they produce a longer lasting, tougher product at competitive pricing. Storage and shipping problems due to biological growth or fallout and settling are slashed. Current producers have shipped tanker loads from Portland, Oregon to Wisconsin and from Salt Lake City to Austin, Texas with no problems.

Predictable curing, tougher material without the use of costly additives, safe ingredients, storage, shipping stability and competitive pricing make Carbonyte Process™ sealcoats an attractive alternative!

Take the time now to learn all of the advantages the Carbonyte Process™ will have for you!

Asphalt Advisor • October 2000

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