ABSTRACT
Construction sealants are widely used in a variety of industrial, commercial, and residential applications. Applications range from low-end, unspecied uses, such as crack lling in driveways, to high-end, specied, and regulated uses, such as structural glazing. Construction sealants are utilized in a multitude of applications, for example, in glazing and perimeter joints on windows and doors; roong terminations; perimeter joints in bathroom and kitchen appliances; weather-sealing joints in facades and curtain walls; expansion joints in airport runways, highways, bridges, plazas, and parking decks; joints in water and wastewater treatment facilities (including submerged environments); and in re-stop sealing of joints and penetrations in public facilities (re partition wall sealing), such as in hospitals, schools, or power plants. Due to the wide use of construction sealants, the global market for these materials now exceeds 800,000 tons in volume and $3 billion in sales value.
