Ceramic Cement Corporation/Cerako (C3Cerako)

An Introduction to Ceramic Cement, EkoRok, d-EkoRok, CeramXshield, AerRock & EartnCycle Technologies

The high strength, user-friendly, decidedly superior quality EkoRok concrete solutions we provide include the repair and replacement of damaged portland concrete infrastructure, the creation of superior quality, ultra-green counter tops & tile, and the shielding/containment of radiation.

Along with our ultra-green (no fly ash, no toxins) Ceramic cement products we are in the final stages of developing/producing/marketing AerRock, a unique, lightweight ceramic aggregate for cellular concrete applications, which we have recently discovered is also uniquely useful as a reusable hydroponic food growing delivery system.

Ceramic Cement

To appreciate the advanced concrete solutions described in this report it's important for the reader to understand that Ceramic cement is not a new discovery and/or indeed a new idea when it comes to the creation of superior quality concrete chemistry. Not by along shot! Prior to the advent of limestone-based Portalnd cement in the early 19th-Century, the basic alumino-silica, pozzolan, geoploymer chemistry principles used to make Ceramic cement have been employed for literally thousands of years.

The use of pozzolan/geopolymer based Ceramic cements date back to structures such as the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Roman Parthenon and aqueducts, the Iron Pillar of Dehli, and the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia (http://nwpublicmedia.typepad.com/ournorthwest energy/2009/05/better-cement.html). More recently, advanced Ceramic cement studies have been researched and tested at Argonne National Labs (ANL). These studies reveal extraordinary properties and applications such as deep oil well lining, human bone repair, nuclear waste containment, as well as superior building, construction, and underwater uses.

For the purpose of clarification: Cement is herein defined as a basic binder (glue if you will) while the final material produced, when aggregates such as gravel and sand are added to said binder, is referred to as concrete. 'Cold-fired' refers to a water-activated, exothermic bonding reaction.

During the 20th-Century Portland cement/concrete became the most used man-made material in the world. The concrete/ building/construction industries constitute the largest interdependent industry in the world! Approximately 8 cubic kilometers of concrete are made each year—this equates to more than one cubic meter for every person on Earth. Concrete powers a US$35 billion industry, employing more than two million workers in the United States alone. More than 55,000 miles (89,000 km) of highways in the U.S. are paved with this material. Reinforced, pre-stressed, and pre-cast are the most widely used types of functional concrete extensions.

Portland cement was invented in Leeds, England by Joseph Aspdin in 1824, based on the limestone he gather from the nearby Portland quarry and processed in his kitchen. Because of it's water-activated ease of use, versatility and reasonable strength, this concrete advent soon became the binder of choice in engineering the foundations of our society.

However and unfortunately, over the past 50-plus years, numerous engineering studies throughout the world have discovered and indisputably verified that our Portland concrete bridges, tunnels, dams, levees, highways and buildings are progressively and dangerously carroding internally and occasionaly collapsing, as witnessed by the bridge collapse and corresponding loss of life in Minneapolis in 2007.

The inherent shortcomings of Portland concrete are well documented, such as its susceptibility to salt/sulfate erosion and corrosion of metal rebar due to the residual water and dissolved oxygen, which over a relatively short period of time (approx. 50 to 70-years) seriously reduce Portland's dependability and durability.

It is also important to understand that there are no bad guys when it comes to cement binders. No one set out to create a problematic concrete. It was only after 20th Century microscopic examinations began to internally examine the results of the limestone/gypsum based structures we had erected that our generations have inherited a porous, corrosive, crack prone cementitious chemistry. Once this flawed chemistry was detected, billions have valiantly been spent trying to rectify this problem but the basic erosion/corrosion problems remain. Furthermore, until the recent advent of Ceramic cement there were no viable alternatives.

The common perception is that all concrete is pretty much the same but nothing could be further from the truth. Concretes made from phosphate-bonded cement are not susceptible to harmful erosion/corrosive problems, and have serious time-tested durability. Therefore the difference in the structural integrity and durability of limestone-bonded and phosphate-bonded concrete is 'literally' day and night, i.e. dramatic!

As far as being a proven beyond doubt advanced form of concrete, the unique bonding characteristics of Ceramic cement presently enable the repair of numerous Portland concrete failures including leaky tunnels, roadways, runways, and elevated road structures. The importance of this unique concrete bonding value is verifed by 10-years use throughout the world by the U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers and 30 State Road Depts.

Increasingly, concrete experts are recognizing that Ceramic cement:

(a) provides the world's only toxic free, superior quality, high strength concrete for counter tops, concrete tile, grouting and thin set materials, (b) bonds to and repair Portland concrete and coat & fireproof steel beams better than any other material, (c) eliminates rebar corrosion, (d) greatly strengthens adjacent asphalt or concrete with a minimum of traffic interruption as our water-activated materials set up within a half hour and are strong enough in two-hours to be driven on or land planes on, (e) bonds with a wide choice of aggregate materials with the notable exception of plastic (therby making plastic excellent an inexensive mould material), (f) withstands temperatures up to 3000 degrees F, (g) hardens in a three hours to the normal 28-day strength of Portland, eventually achieving 2 to 3 times the strength of Portland, (h) binds tenaciously to itself, eliminating problematic weak spots in conventional construction such as cold joints, corners and doors, thereby greatly increasing structural resistance to earthquakes, tornados and floods, (i) sets up under water, (j) resist insects, mold, moss, salt water, acid rain, and with our proprietary CXS formulas radiation emissions!

C3 holds the world licensing rights to CeramXshield (CXS), an increasingly recognized, superior solution for the containment of radiation. Our world patent application can be viewed under US Patent Application No. 20080296541.

Another convenient advantage our Ceramic cement formulas offer is that they can be blended in existing Portland cement production facilities and applied using conventional application technologies, eliminating the need for prohibitive and costly cement industry infrastructure changes. In this regard we firmly believe that Ceramic cement will increasingly prove to be a compatible, profitable and useful alternative cement choice for the world's Portland cement industries, if for no other reason than as the superior repair material it has already and irrefutably proven to be.

As the author of this report it seems to me, when a material produces as many aftercare problems as portland cement, many more profitable, professional reasons for including Ceramic cement in a concrete specialist's inventory of answers will continue to be revealed!

When it comes to the adverse CO2 emissions associated with limestone / gypsum Portland cement production (one-ton of CO2 for each ton of Portland), Argonne National Lab studies revealed that the chemical reaction inherent in calcining magnesium rather than limestone emits 60% less CO2 (http://www.amazon.com/Chemically-Bonded-Phosphate-Ceramics-Twenty-First/dp/0080445055/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328935462&sr=1-1).

Other studies assert that once a magnesium-based concrete is in place and exposed to the atmosphere, it actually continues to abate the remaining CO2 atmospheric influence it emits as magnesium naturally sequesters CO2 in a similar fashion to rain forest sequestration ( http://www.tececo.com).

Magnesium-phosphate concrete should not be confused with concretes known as magnesium oxychloride and magnesium sulfate concretes. Oxychoride & sulfate based concretes initially produce tanalizing results similar to phosphate-bonded concrete in psi strength, fire resistance, even beauty, BUT over a relatively short time it has been proven that in the presence of water and metals these cement chemistries begin to reverse, carrode and deteriorate at a rate that makes portland concrete look great. This statement is backed up by  the extensive scientific studies revealed in Dr. Mark Shand's book, Magnesia Cements (http://www.tpub.com/content/ArmyCRREL/TR-01-2/TR-01-20018.htm).

One single issue, cost, has slowed the widespread proliferation and use of Ceramic cement. The essential raw materials needed for our concrete blends, magnesium & phosphate, are considerably more expensive than Portland limestone/gypsum raw materials. Also throughout the world Portland cement production is government subsidized. While competitve subsidies are not yet in place for Ceramic cement production (the time will come) and the present cost disparity makes our task more difficult, even at today's non-government subsidized prices, the actual amortized cost of our significantly more durable Ceramic concrete repair is a tiny fraction of the replacement cost of reinforced concrete and steel structures.

And it is now quiten likely that our present higher essential raw material cost disparity will also be a thing of the past!

EarthCycle Technologies

To address the aforementioned cost disparity we recently created our first 100-ton per day manufacturing facility in Seoul, South Korea, which allows us to access beneficial trade levies and economies of scale that reduce our overall production cost. In addition to this cost-reduction measure we are also cooperatively supporting cutting-edge material processing technologies that will, we believe, eventually if not sooner allow us to gain phosphorus, magnesium and other useful minerals, as well as bio-fuel from local resources, including otherwise seriously harmful waste streams.

Starting out many years ago as a small. privately-funded company we learned first hand that public institutions such as Argonne National Labs, Washington State University, Idaho National Labs, the University of Washington, and more recently the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are more than willing to listen and if impressed help in any practical way they can when it comes to practical & much needed innovation. This high level creative/investigative research access significantly helped to confidently advance our privately-funded efforts.

Our EarthCycle project is a good example of the community and science support that's available to independent researchers. This project involves the unification of four independently developed, state-of-the-art technologies that we identified in searching for a way to recycle waste phosphate streams. Once we realized how these tech's complimented each other in processing waste materials, a unified system that can uniquely provide local access to raw materials, healthy food, clean water and bio-fuel energy appeared.

Is it possible to peacefully replace the ineffective scarcity of raw materials practices that keep the world economies and governments so volatile and ineffective in serving the needs of the vast majority of people who, as a governing prerequisite, deserve at a minimum a sustainable, healthy standard of living? We think so. In fact, given the existing, ready to assemble tech combination we've stumbled onto, we know so!

AerRock

In our quest to bring immediately available solutions, we are also developing and about to produce another useful product. AerRock is a mineral based, aerated, very lightweight (light enough to float on water), waterproof, fire resistant ceramic aggregate material that offers a wide variety of usefulness. This usefulness includes high R value cellular concrete, the clean up/recovery of ocean oil spills, the transport of nuclear waste, lightweight building blocks, wallboards, and the list of useful, lighyweight building products goes on.

What surprised us was finding out, via a good freind who is a noted agriculture scientist, that our one of akind ceramic aggregate also provides a uniquely useful, reusable delivery system for hydroponic food growing. That one blew us away. The humanitarian benefit AerRock provides for the localized, year-round production of fruits and vegetables in any reasonably enclosed space is exceedingly timely relative to the escalating worldwide shortage of fruits and vegetables.

Final note:

As one of the founders of C3 and our parent company Co-Operations, Inc., I have had the priviledge of spending the past 12-years researching, inventing and preparing for the commercial/social implementation of the innovative products and humanitarian objectives described in this report.

It's been said, "timing is everything". Ceramic cement and the related products we are mentoring represent timely answers that uniquely and effectively address the increasing worldwide demand for 'green' products, reliable-long-lasting infrastructure repair and construction, and most importantly the need for healthy living standards 'for all people'.

The 19^th Century French writer/philosopher Victor Hugo wrote,

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

I've come to think the guy was right......! The world didn't need a better mousetrap, it needed a better glue.

All the best,

Judd Hamilton

Judd@CeramicCementCorporation.com



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