Knauf: Innovative gypsum products
for special applications

Innovative plaster system
for mechanically stressed surfaces

With the new MP 75 Diamant (Fig. 1) Knauf has developed a machine-applied gypsum plaster with increased surface strength, which provides increased protection of particularly stressed surfaces, e.  g. in public buildings and schools. The workability of this plaster is that of a conventional gypsum plaster and, therefore, it is particularly economic. Knauf MP 75 Diamant is a single-coat wall plaster with increased surface strength. It can be applied with continuously operating plaster-throwing machines, such as the PFT G 4, to all...

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