Mortars: No individual product tests
required in the future?
European Conference “Environmental Characteristics of Mineral Mortars“, Holzkirchen/Germany (23.06.2009)1
The Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics, Holzkirchen/Germany, the EMO (European Mortar Organisation) and the Industrieverband WerkMörtel e. V. (German Association of Mineral Mortar Producers) invited over 40 drymix mortar experts from throughout Europe to Holzkirchen in Bavaria/
Germany. The organizers presented the results of an independent study on the environmental compatibility of mineral mortars under central European weather conditions. The Fraunhofer Institute had prepared specific weathering conditions and indoor air collection methods (Fig. 1) to accomplish this study, which...
