HYDROTEX® fabric formwork has been utilized on more than 75 million ft² of installations around the world, used in-situ casting of concrete erosion control, scour protection, and geomembrane liner systems.
What sets Synthetex apart is our collaborative way of working globally and delivering locally. Synthetex is a trusted partner to our clients- drawing together teams of project managers, engineers, production, and field service managers dedicated to sustainable solutions.
Synthetex operates with global markets with strategically engaged HYDROTEX manufacturing facilities in the United States and India. Our global operations are positioned to serve the infrastructure, energy, industrial, and environmental markets.
Our HYDROTEX® team of sales, engineering, manufacturing, customer services, and field personnel provides engineers, owners, and contractors expert advice and assistance:
HYDROTEX Solution Development – Our experienced team is available to review site design requirements, evaluate options, and recommend solutions.
Technical Expertise – HYDROTEX product specific engineering calculations for hydraulic shear stress, flexibility, hydrostatic load remediation, and product sizing.
Cost Estimates – Assist with installed cost estimates and value-engineered solutions.
Site Specific Drawings – Site-specific product detail, layout, and shop drawings formatted for proposal, project meetings, and submittals.
On-site HYDROTEX® Installation Assistance – Pre-construction meetings, logistic coordination, on-site installation support with one of our experienced field technicians.
Environmental Benefits
HYDROTEX is a highly adaptable concrete system, which dramatically reduces the carbon footprint of any project. There are many Green benefits with using HYDROTEX products, ensuring a sustainable solution locally and globally.
Concrete’s reliability reduces the need for routine maintenance- further eliminating manufacturing energy required for replacement products, which dramatically reduces lorry emissions in construction zones.
Non-toxic
Made of primarily local, natural, non-toxic elements from the earth – cement, sand and water – HYDROTEX Fabric Formed Concrete products are inert. They are not flammable, will not react with other materials and do not release chemicals into their surroundings.
Friendly Manufacturing
It has been suggested that using concrete products has an effect on the environment because of cement content. It’s important to remember that cement is just a component of concrete and generally makes up no more than 10 to 13% of the total concrete mixture. In fact, the embodied carbon dioxide content (ECO²) in concrete products from using cement is only approximately 11% of the total carbon dioxide produced during the manufacturing process of cement.
Recaptured Carbon Dioxide
Approximately 60% of the carbon dioxide emitted during the manufacturing process of cement results from a process known as calcination, a chemical reaction among the raw materials in the cement kiln. Studies have shown that later, when hardened concrete is exposed to air, the calcination reaction reverses in a process known as carbonation, which occurs naturally in all concrete products to recapture carbon dioxide. Eventually, exposure of hardened concrete to the air will allow the recapture of the carbon dioxide originally emitted during the cement manufacturing process.
Locally Sourced
Almost 100% of the components that make up fine aggregate concrete are extracted and manufactured locally – thereby reducing emissions and costs associated with long transport of materials.
Energy Conservation
Energy Reduction
A long service life reduces energy needs. Concrete’s long life reduces the need for replacement, thereby eliminating further manufacturing energy required for replacement products and drastically reducing vehicle emissions in construction zones.
Low Footprint
Concrete exhibits a lower energy footprint associated with production, delivery and maintenance compared to other materials.
Fly Ash
Fine aggregate concrete mixes contain a certain amount of fly ash, a waste stream from the coal energy industry of which disposal has traditionally been difficult. This reduces the overall amount of cement required in the mixture, which reduces greenhouse gas emissions, reduces landfill volumes and fly ash disposal costs, creates a lower-cost concrete, and reduces the water required to produce the concrete. It is also proven that fly ash improves the concrete product’s durability, which means its service life increases even more.
