Polymer
stabilizes and enhances soil by protecting particles from elements
How can Polymer make natural soil better than artificial surfaces and pavements? The word polymer means “a long chain of molecules,” but to us it means protection. Protection from the elements: rain, snow, drought. The same elements you protect your natural wood from with a waterproof sealer. Why not your natural soil?
Like its predecessor Stabilizer, the Polymer blends into the pore spaces and binds particles together, but does it without water. The Polymer also coats each soil particle, protecting it from the elements. Like a group of bodyguards surrounding a celebrity at our party, except the bodyguards are protecting the celebrity from rain, snow, and drought.
How do you protect against drought? When you eliminate the need for water, you eliminate loose and dusty soil. But this isn’t just some topical treatment to control dust. Oh no! This is a process of creating a new kind of surface, a surface that is still natural soil. Still natural, just enhanced, and capable of new feats. Feats like an infield mix that never needs water. Feats like a pavement that can be every bit as strong as asphalt, activated only by compaction. But that’s not the amazing part. That pavement is amazing because it can provide the strength of asphalt, while retaining its flexibility. After installation, you can pick up your pathway and install it somewhere else if you really wanted to. The rawest form of recycling.
How can that be possible? The manufacturing process bonds the Polymer to each soil particle inside and out. Each coated soil particle attracts other coated particles and a loose bond is formed between them. Depending on the different sizes of particles, this bond achieves different results. With a baseball infield mix, the particles hold together without becoming too hard, just stable. With an aggregate, a variety of particles lock into place by compaction. This type of bond preserves the surface’s appearance, durability, and attraction to other particles over time. Which allows you to move your pathway and re activate that bond with compaction or add new material easily (LAWYERS DISCLAIMER: the more it is compacted, the harder it is to move).
Polymer enhanced soil can be better than synthetic surfaces or pavements for your application. Each surface is designed specifically for your application: baseball, softball, equestrian, pavement and golf. We call these new soil surfaces Hilltopper® for baseball and softball, and StaLok® for pavement, equestrian and golf. Witness the Evolution of Soil in the application pages, or for yourself. Request a free sample.