Hydro-Mineral provides you as responsible professionals, efficient technical solutions for the protection of our infrastructure and heritage. Effective and easy to use, our new generation of Mineralizers, Water Repellents and Cleaners adapt to your requirements and specifications. With more than 30 years of research, laboratory and multiple on-site use and testing, Hydro-Mineral is today recognized as "the specialist in mineral chemistry".Our products have been developed with the aim of achieving more effective, sustainable treatments, in line with the environmental issues.Mineralization implies adding silica into the material. Silica has the same life span as glass, about 4000 years. It is one of the main components of our planet and does not come from fossil fuels. In harmony with the environment and materials, mineralization is not sensitive to UV or abrasion and therefore does not release any decomposition products.One of the first observations we can make concerns the migration of water to the core of the material that can reach the steel reinforcement of concrete constructions and oxidize them. Carbonation will degrade the concretes and will be responsible for exposing their steel reinforcements. In both cases, the swelling of the steel due to rust will cause concrete splinters and weakening of the structure. Other observations lead us to observe the evolution of materials under the effect of freeze/thaw in some regions of the world. Better than a film-forming coating, mineralizers penetrate the supports by capillary action, where they crystallize lime and form silica in the porosities. The material is thus waterproofed, consolidated and made more resistant to external aggressions.