Integrity PowerBlend

Transform your concrete projects from stress-inducing to confidence-boosting.

Your work isn’t just about concrete – it’s about crafting something lasting and meaningful, without the headaches of costly mistakes and wasted time.

That’s why we designed Integrity Concrete Products for professionals who want to get it right the first time – products that empower you to create with precision and deliver results you can be proud of.

No more guesswork, no more worrying about whether your materials will hold up. With Integrity Concrete Products, you can trust that what you build is built to last.

Imagine taking your concrete creations - whether countertops, furniture, or wall panels - to a whole new level. Integrity PowerBlend isn’t just another bag of concrete countertop concrete - it’s the game-changing solution that empowers you to create with confidence, precision, and strength.

Benefits of Integrity PowerBlend

• Dense Concrete with No Pinholes: PowerBlend makes strong, dense, and flowable concrete. It yields exceptional surface details with minimal effort. Coupled with UltraFlow, your concrete can flow like syrup and make casting fast, efficient, with superior surface quality and exceptional casting detail. It virtually eliminates pinholes.
• Stronger Concrete Faster: PowerBlend's exceptionally high early strength means you can demold and handle your pieces quickly and with confidence. It reaches one-day flexural strength that competitors take a week to achieve. And, it hits peak strength in 7 days, exceeding their 28-day results. The bottom line is that your concrete is stronger and more durable, and you have more confidence and fewer failures.
• Saves You Money and Time: PowerBlend eliminates the need for sourcing, storing, and batching separate liquid curing polymers, pozzolans, defoamers, and shrinkage reducers. It also eliminates the need to find the correct sand for GFRC. You can easily create hard, dense concrete with very high early strength, yet still remain economical when it comes to the cost of making your concrete.
• Rigorously Tested and Engineered for Success: PowerBlend was developed by a licensed civil engineer with nearly 25 years of experience making creative concrete and has undergone years of testing. It was crafted with expert knowledge and attention to detail, making it a product suited for professionals who want precision and reliability.

Transform your concrete projects from stress-inducing to confidence-boosting. With Integrity PowerBlend, you're not just working with concrete - you’re crafting success.

What Integrity PowerBlend Does

Overview:

This ultra-powerful blend combines:

• revolutionary dry curing polymer
• potent defoamer (UltraDense)
• proprietary mix of high-purity, fully recycled pozzolans, hand-selected for their unmatched reactivity
• powerful superplasticizer (UltraFlow) for excellent workability
• well-graded, pure white sand
• white Portland cement

Feel the difference as your concrete reaches incredible early strength, letting you bring your most ambitious designs to life faster and with more control.

Don't want to ship sand and cement? Consider Integrity PowerPack, the admix-only version of PowerBlend.

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Benefits:

• Greatly increases flexural (bending) and compressive strength.
• Increases one day strength for early and confident demolding.
• Designed for the production of UHPC, GFRC and ECC.
• Well suited for many casting and finishing techniques, such as spraying, SCC, direct casting, hand-packing, and troweling.
• Increases density and hardness.
• Improves workability and flowability.
• Increases surface quality and helps capture fine detail.
• Improves color dispersion and intensity.
• Contains a powerful defoamer that helps significantly reduce pinholes and eliminate foaming.
• Simplifies sourcing and batching.
• Easy to dose and mix.
• Eliminates the need for a 7-day wet cure.
• Helps reduce drying shrinkage cracks, surface crazing and curling.
• Unaffected by freezing temperatures during shipping or storage.
• Suitable for all interior and exterior applications in all climates because it is UV stable and provides freeze/thaw resistance.

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Properties of Integrity PowerBlend

Strength:

At 0.30 w/c and 2.5% AR glass fibers:

Compressive strength:

• 1 day: 6812 psi
• 7 days: 8706 psi
• 28 days: 11014 psi

Flexural strength:

• 1 day: 1339 psi
• 7 days: 1723 psi
• 28 days: 2188 psi

Coverage:

Some manufacturers state their coverage at 1 inch thick, even though this is not a typical thickness. However, for comparison:

• One 45 pound bag of PowerBlend will make about 53 pounds of concrete that covers 6.1 square feet at 3/4" thick.
• The same amount of concrete (53 lbs) will cover 4.6 square feet at 1 inch thick.

Cost:

• At the per-bag price of $39.99, this equates to $7.66 per square foot for 3/4" concrete or $10.22 per square foot for 1" concrete.
• At the half pallet price of $35.71 per bag, this equates to $5.83 per square foot for 3/4" concrete or $7.78 per square foot for 1" concrete.
• At the full pallet price of $33.93 per bag, this equates to $5.54 per square foot for 3/4" concrete or $7.39 per square foot for 1" concrete.

Cementitious Material:

If you are dosing pigments or various admixtures, you need to know the amount of cementitious material in your mix.

• Each bag of PowerBlend contains 22.13 lb (10.04 kg) of cementitious material.

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How to Use Integrity PowerBlend

Mix Design:

Here is a white concrete countertop mix recipe for GFRC using 1 bag of Integrity PowerBlend:

• 1 bag of Integrity PowerBlend (45.00 lb)
• 1.32 lbs of 19mm UltraFibers AR Glass Fibers (2.5% dose)
• 6.63 lbs of water (0.30 water-cement ratio)
• Add a tiny amount of UltraFlow superplasticizer as needed. (1 lb of UltraFlow will treat up to 10 bags of PowerBlend when making SCC/direct cast concrete.)

This makes:

• About 6 sq ft of concrete at 3/4" thick, or
• About 5 sq ft of concrete at 1" thick.

Shopping List:

PowerBlend:

To calculate how many bags of PowerBlend you need for a project:

1. Determine the square footage
2. Decide how thick you are making the concrete.
3. Divide the square footage by 6 if you are making the concrete 3/4" thick or by 5 if you are making the concrete 1" thick.

For example, suppose you need to make an 85 sq ft kitchen countertop:

1. Square footage: 85
2. Thickness: 1"
3. Bags needed: 85 / 5 = 17 bags

If you instead decided to make this countertop 1.5" thick, you would need to multiply 17 bags by 1.5 = 25.5 bags (so purchase 26 bags).

Fibers: Buy UltraFibers here.

According to the mix formula above, each bag of PowerBlend requires 1.32 lbs of UltraFibers.

For example:

• In the above scenario of 17 bags of PowerBlend, you would need 17 * 1.32 lbs = 22.44 lbs of UltraFibers.
• UltraFibers come in 2.2 lb bags (1 kg) and 44 lb bags (20 kg).
• Divide 22.44 by 2.2 = 10.2 bags of UltraFibers. You can buy 11 bags, or in this case just use 10 bags. It is okay to use slightly less fibers.

UltraFlow: Buy UltraFlow here.

• If you are planning to use fluid concrete for SCC/direct casting, divide the number of bags of PowerBlend by 10 to determine how many 1-lb jars of UltraFlow to buy.
• If you are hand packing a stiff mix, you will need far less UltraFlow.

See the UltraFlow page for detailed dosing instructions.

Bulk Purchasing:

It is far more economical to buy in bulk. Here are the proportions of UltraFibers and UltraFlow for half pallets and pallets of PowerBlend:

Half Pallet of PowerBlend (28 bags) makes about 171 sq ft at 3/4" thick and requires:

• 36.96 lbs of UltraFibers, so buy a 44-lb bag.
• Up to 2.8 lbs of UltraFlow if you're making flowable concrete, so buy 3 1-lb jars or stock up with a single 5-lb jar.

Pallet of PowerBlend (56 bags) makes about 342 sq ft at 3/4" thick and requires:

• 73.92 lbs of UltraFibers, so buy 2 44-lb bags.
• Up to 5.6 lbs of UltraFlow if you're making flowable concrete. One 5-lb jar will probably suffice.

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Mixing Instructions:

Concrete made with PowerBlend is most effective when added slowly to your mix water.

For flowable concrete, always chill your concrete using ice to achieve a concrete temperature of 55°F to 65°F. See below for determining ice quantities needed.

1. Dry blend the PowerBlend, plus pigments and UltraFlow if needed.
2. Add all of the mix water plus ice to a separate mixing bucket.
3. Gradually add all the PowerBlend to the water and blend until fully mixed.
   • • Start by adding about 1/3 of the PowerBlend and blend until all of the dry material wets out.
     • Add half of the remaining PowerBlend and blend further until all of the dry material wets out.
     • Add remaining PowerBlend and blend until all dry ingredients are incorporated.
     • Scrape the bucket and the mixing paddles well, then mix continuously on medium to high speed for no less than 2 full minutes. This is most important for flowable SCC/direct cast mixes.
     • Make sure that any ice has fully melted before proceeding to the next step.
4. Add fibers last. Gradually add the fibers to prevent clumping and mix slowly to prevent whipping air into the mix. Ensure the fibers are fully wetted out and well dispersed throughout the mix. Do not mix on high speed.

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Adding Ice to Chill Your Mix:

Chilling your concrete greatly increases working time and improves flowability. It is important for direct cast or SCC concrete. Your concrete should be between 55°F snd 65°F.

Replace some of your mix water with ice by equal weight. The chart below is for each bag of PowerBlend, and it assumes all mix ingredients except ice are at ambient temperature.

For example:

• If your shop temperature is 90°F and you are using 3 bags of PowerBlend, replace 3.5 lbs * 3 = 10.5 lbs of your mix water with ice.
• If your shop temperature is 85°F, calculate the ice amount for 80°F and 90°F and use an amount of ice about halfway in between.

The amount of ice does not need to be precise. Only the total weight of water and ice combined needs to be exact. For example:

• Suppose your mix formula calls for 19.89 lbs of water total, and based on the chart, you are going to use 10.5 lbs of ice to chill your mix.
• You are replacing 10.5 lbs of water with ice.
• Therefore you will use 19.89 - 10.5 = 9.39 lbs of water.
• You will use 9.39 lbs of water and 10.5 lbs of ice in your mix.

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