A Safer Facility Starts With Faster, Smarter Repairs
Concrete failures — cracks, spalls, tipped edges, broken joints — have always been more than cosmetic flaws. They’re active safety hazards. They catch wheels, trip pedestrians, damage equipment, and disrupt operations. Yet the traditional repair process often creates more disruption than the defect itself: noisy saw-cutting, dusty demolition, long cure times, and extended shutdowns.
Roadware Inc. changed that story.
10 Minute Concrete Mender™ was engineered to eliminate the noise, dust, and downtime that historically defined concrete repair. Instead of hours of prep and cure time, Concrete Mender delivers a structural, traffic-ready repair in minutes, often with nothing more than basic surface cleaning.
Why Concrete Mender Is Different
For decades, contractors relied on thick, sticky epoxies and polyureas — products that sit on top of concrete rather than becoming part of it. These materials fill cracks but rarely bond deeply, often leading to pop-outs, brittle failures, or repairs that simply don’t last.
Concrete Mender flips that paradigm.
Wetter-than-water penetration
With a viscosity under 9 cps and a surface tension one-third that of water, Concrete Mender doesn’t just fill a crack — it self-injects into the concrete’s microstructure. Capillary forces actively pull the material deep into pores, microfractures, and aggregate interlock zones.
This is the foundation of Roadware’s signature MicroDoweling™ effect: The repair becomes part of the original slab, not a patch sitting on top of it.
Structural performance restored
Unlike brittle epoxies, Concrete Mender cures into a tough, flexible polymer concrete with a modulus of elasticity compatible with surrounding concrete. It transfers load, resists impact, and maintains long-term integrity — even under heavy forklift traffic.
Proven durability
Contractors estimate over one million linear feet of cracks and spalls are repaired annually with Concrete Mender. Even after years of service, the failure rate remains near zero.
More Than a Crack Filler — A Complete Repair System
Concrete Mender isn’t limited to crack injection. When extended with manufactured sand, it becomes a hybrid polymer-concrete mortar capable of:
- Ramp construction
- Spall and pothole repair
- Leveling debonded or rough concrete
- Repairing steps, balconies, and elevated structures
- Restoring pool decks and exterior slabs
Repairs can be colored, polished, or coated with virtually any commercial system. And because Concrete Mender works even at –20°F (–28°C), freezer floors and cold storage facilities can be repaired without shutdown.
Scientific Validation — The University of Illinois Study
To understand why Concrete Mender performs so well, Roadware commissioned a scanning electron microscopy study through the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana‑Champaign, led by Prof. David A. Lange.
His findings:
- High-quality bond: The microstructure shows deep penetration and full engagement with the substrate.
- Capillary-driven infiltration: Low viscosity and low surface tension allow the material to wick into pores and microcracks.
- Low shrinkage: Minimizes risk of debonding or delamination.
- Structural compatibility: Strength comparable to construction-grade concrete; modulus lower than concrete, reducing brittleness.
- Structural restoration: Repairs “largely restore the structural performance of the original concrete.”
In short: Concrete Mender doesn’t patch concrete — it rebuilds it.
The Result: Safer Floors, Faster Repairs, Lower Lifetime Cost
Slip, trip, and fall hazards can be eliminated in minutes, not days. Facilities stay open. Repairs last for years. And contractors gain a tool that performs reliably in the toughest environments — from retail floors to airport terminals to freezer warehouses.
Roadware 10 Minute Concrete Mender™ isn’t just a repair product. It’s a rethinking of how concrete should be restored.
