Sealants are widely used in a variety of industrial, commercial, and residential applications. Applications range from low-end, unspecified uses, such as crack filling in driveways, to high-end, specified, 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; roofing 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 fire-stop sealing of joints and penetrations in public facilities (fire 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.
Sealants are widely used in various industrial, commercial, and residential applications. These applications range from low-end, unspecified uses, such as crack filling in driveways, to high-end, specified, and regulated uses, such as structural glazing. Construction sealants are utilized in multiple applications, including glazing and perimeter joints on windows and doors, roofing terminations, perimeter joints in bathroom and kitchen appliances, weather-sealing joints in facades and curtain walls, and expansion joints in airport runways, highways, bridges, plazas, and parking decks. They are also used in joints in water and wastewater treatment facilities (including submerged environments) and in fire-stop sealing of joints and penetrations in public facilities (fire partition wall sealing), such as 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.