Abstract: Use of a foam mortar as a bonding agent for floorings, includes the foam mortar containing protective colloid-stabilized polymers of ethylenically unsaturated monomers.

Abstract: A process for producing foamed concrete includes introducing air pores into aqueous concrete compositions by one or more air pore formers and/or by introducing air. The aqueous concrete compositions are based on one or more foam stabilizers, one or more protective colloid-stabilized polymers of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the form of aqueous dispersions or water-redispersible powders, 30% to 95% by weight of cement, based on the dry weight of the components for production of the concrete compositions, optionally one or more fillers, and optionally one or more additives.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite heat insulation system, comprising an insulating layer, optionally a reinforcing layer, which is applied to the insulating layer, and a cover layer, which is applied to the insulating layer or, if present, to the reinforcing layer, characterized in that the cover layer contains composite particles, wherein the composite particles contain at least one organic polymer and at least one inorganic solid, wherein the weight percentage of inorganic solid is 15 to 40 wt %, with respect to the total weight of organic polymer and inorganic solid in the composite particle.

Abstract: A powder paint composition. The powder paint composition contains (a) at least one polymer powder which can be re-dispersed in water, (b) pigment and filler, and optionally (c) which may be one or more adjuvants and/or may be one or more hydraulic binders. The at least one polymer powder which can be re-dispersed in water contains a polyvinyl alcohol-stabilized copolymer that is based on (a1) a wt % of a vinyl acetate, (a2) a wt % of ethylene and optionally (a3) and/or (a4) wherein (a3) is vinyl esters of long-chain, optionally branched C3 to C12 carboxylic acids and (a4) is further ethylenically unsaturated comonomers that are co-polymerizable therewith.

Abstract: Insulating plasters and insulated molded panels produced by molding without input of heat contain closed or open celled light weight bodies or mixtures thereof, and at least one binder composed of composite particles containing both an organic polymer and from 15 to 50 weight percent of inorganic solid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a porous molded body in the form of an insulating plaster layer or an insulating panel, comprising closed-cell or open-cell or mixed-cell hollow bodies made of inorganic materials and comprising a binder, characterized in that composite particles are contained as the binder, wherein the composite particles contain at least one organic polymer and at least one inorganic solid, wherein the weight percentage of inorganic solid is 15 to 50 wt %, with respect to the total weight of organic polymer and inorganic solid in the composite particle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a composite heat insulation system, comprising an insulating layer, optionally a reinforcing layer, which is applied to the insulating layer, and a cover layer, which is applied to the insulating layer or, if present, to the reinforcing layer, characterized in that the cover layer contains composite particles, wherein the composite particles contain at least one organic polymer and at least one inorganic solid, wherein the weight percentage of inorganic solid is 15 to 40 wt %, with respect to the total weight of organic polymer and inorganic solid in the composite particle.

Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous preparations of polymer-modified setting accelerators, said preparations being characterized in that at least one setting accelerator and at least one cationically stabilized polymer are contained therein.

Abstract: The invention relates to acid-resistant, hydraulically setting masses based on a) slag sand, b) one or more pozzolanas, c) one or more fillers, d) one or more polymers based on ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and water.

Abstract: The invention provides methods for producing building material formulations in the form of dry mixers, characterized in that (a) one or more dust reducer agents are applied to one or more inorganic supports, to form supported dust reducer agents, the inorganic supports having a porosity of ?65%, and the dust reducer agents being selected from the group consisting of fatty acids, fatty acid derivatives, natural oils, hydrocarbons and polysiloxanes composed of units of the general formula RcSi (OR?)d(OH)eO(4-c-d-e)/2 with c=0 to 3, d=0 to 3, e=0 to 3, in which the sum c+d+e is not more than 3.

Abstract: The invention relates to acid-resistant, hydraulically setting masses based on a) slag sand, b) one or more pozzolanas, c) one or more fillers, d) one or more polymers based on ethylenically unsaturated monomers, and water.

Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous preparations of polymer-modified setting accelerators, said preparations being characterised in that at least one setting accelerator and at least one cationically stabilised polymer are contained therein.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of copolymers stabilized with a protective colloid, in the form of their polymer powders redispersible in water or in the form of their aqueous polymer dispersions, in cement-free or low-cement coating materials, wherein the copolymer is obtainable by free radical polymerization, in water, of a) from 35 to 65% by weight of vinyl acetate, b) from 5 to 20% by weight of ethylene, c) from 40 to 70% by weight of vinyl esters of alpha-branched, tertiary monocarboxylic acids having 5 to 15 carbon atoms, and optionally d) from 0.1 to 10% by weight of further copolymerizable, ethylenically unsaturated comonomers, the data in % by weight totaling 100% by weight.

Abstract: Functionalized copolymers hydrophobicized with silicones, in the form of aqueous dispersions or water-redispersible powders are prepared by copolymerizing a) from 60 to 99.89% by weight of one or more monomers selected from the group consisting of vinyl esters of optionally branched C1-15 alkylcarboxylic acids, methacrylates and acrylates of C1-15 alcohols, vinylaromatics, olefins, dienes, and vinyl halides, b) from 0.01 to 30% by weight of one or more silicones with from 10 to 1,000 SiO(CnH2n+1)2 repeat units where n is from 1 to 6, and where from 90 to 100% by weight of the silicones b) contain at least one but not more than two polymerizable groups, c) from 0.05 to 5.0% by weight of one or more hydrolyzable silane monomers selected from the group consisting of ethylenically unsaturated hydrolyzable silicon compounds, and hydrolyzable epoxysilanes, aminosilanes and mercaptosilanes, and d) from 0.05 to 5.

Abstract: Solventlessly preparable coating compositions for producing soiling-resistant coatings, comprise: a) at least one film-forming polymer of one or more vinyl ester, (meth)acrylate, vinylaromatic, olefin, 1,3-diene, or vinyl halide monomers, and, if desired, further monomers copolymerizable therewith, in the form of an aqueous dispersion or water-redispersible powder, b) one or more photoinitiators and/or fungicides, c) at least one pigment, d) one or more fillers, and, if desired, e) further additives, wherein the photoinitiators and fungicides b) are in the form of complexes with cyclodextrin or its derivatives.

Abstract: Functionalized copolymers hydrophobicized with silicones, in the form of aqueous dispersions or water-redispersible powders are prepared by copolymerizing

Abstract: The invention relates to thickeners based on fully or partially hydrolyzed vinyl alcohol copolymers with a molecular weight Mw greater than 100,000, obtainable by hydrolyzing vinyl acetate copolymers which, besides vinyl acetate units, also contain comonomer units which derive from one or more comonomers selected from the group consisting of 1-(C1-5)-alkylvinyl esters of C1-5 carboxylic acids, allyl esters, vinyl esters of alpha-branched C5-12 carboxylic acids, and C1-18-alkyl (meth)acrylates, in the form of their aqueous solution or in powder form.

Abstract: The invention relates to a fast-drying rendering and coating composition comprising a binder in the form of an aqueous polymer dispersion or of a water-redispersible polymer powder, and also an organic precipitant, if desired in combination with an inorganic precipitant.

Abstract: Solventlessly preparable coating compositions for producing soiling-resistant coatings, comprise:

Abstract: Cement-containing or cement-free building material compositions containing a pulverulent rheological additive comprising: a) soluble a copolymer of (meth)acrylic acid and (meth)acrylic esters, b) a dispersant, and c) a polymer powder which is redispersible in water provide mortars, adhesives, grouts, etc., with excellent processability cured properties.