About MC-Bauchemie MC-Floor Screed 10

MC-Floor Screed 10 is MC-Bauchemie’s answer to a problem every plant manager knows well: a production floor that has gone to potholes, spalled corners, or uneven joints, and a production schedule that has no room for a week-long shutdown to fix it. It’s a single-component, polymer-modified cement screed — a grey powder you gauge with water on site, no second component to weigh out, no resin to catalyse. What sets it apart from an ordinary sand-cement screed patch is speed and predictability: it takes foot traffic in 2-3 hours, is ready for its coating system in 24, and hardens with almost no measurable shrinkage (0.1 mm/m at 28 days), which is exactly the defect that causes ordinary screed patches to curl, crack at the edges, and debond within a season. For Indian manufacturing plants, cold-storage forecourts, FMCG and pharma warehouses, and multi-level car parks where the floor is a production asset, not just a finish, that combination of speed and dimensional stability is the whole value proposition.

MC-Floor Screed 10 sits inside MC-Bauchemie’s broader MC-Floor / MC-DUR flooring system rather than working as a stand-alone patch. It’s designed to be primed with MC-DUR 1177 WV-A epoxy primer and finished with an MC-DUR resin coating, so specifying it commits you (sensibly) to a matched system rather than a mix-and-match repair. That’s a genuine strength for warranty and long-term performance, but it does mean the primer step, the quartz broadcast, and the shot-blasting before overcoating aren’t optional extras — skip them and you lose the bond and the fast-track benefit. As an authorised MC-Bauchemie distributor and applicator across Delhi NCR and pan-India, Space Arc supplies the product alongside the compatible primers and coatings and can put trained crews on site, which matters for a product where the application sequence, not just the bag, determines whether you get the 2-hour walkability the data sheet promises.

The technical insight

The two numbers that matter most on this data sheet are the shrinkage figure and the strength-gain curve, and they explain each other. At 0.1 mm/m after 28 days, MC-Floor Screed 10 shrinks roughly an order of magnitude less than a typical site-batched sand-cement screed — that’s the polymer modification at work, reducing the water demand and internal stress that normally causes screeds to curl at the edges and crack over joints. Because there’s so little internal stress to fight, the mix can afford to gain strength fast without tearing itself apart: >20 N/mm² compressive at 24 hours, >35 N/mm² at 7 days, past 50 N/mm² by 28 days, with flexural strength already over 4 N/mm² on day one. That’s what makes the 2-3 hour foot-traffic and 24-hour overcoat claims credible rather than optimistic. The primer system does double duty too — MC-DUR 1177 WV-A isn’t just a bonding agent, the quartz broadcast on the first coat gives the fresh screed a mechanical key, while the fresh-into-fresh application onto the tacky second coat avoids the classic screed-over-cured-epoxy delamination failure. The one figure worth watching on an Indian site is the 30-minute working time, quoted at 20°C/50% RH — real site temperatures during summer months will cut that window, so it pays to trial-mix on site before committing to a full pour.

Where it is used

• Fast-track repair and re-profiling of worn or spalled industrial floor slabs in production halls
• Levelling screed laid under MC-DUR epoxy or PU resin coating systems in warehouses and logistics floors
• Repair of forklift and wheeled-vehicle guideways and heavy-traffic aisles
• “Weekend” floor rehabilitation where the plant must be back in production by Monday shift
• Re-profiling uneven or worn concrete before a new resin flooring build-up
• Loading bay approach ramps and dock-leveller surrounds
• Levelling of car park decks and other mineral-bound trafficked substrates
• Localised patch repair of potholed, cracked or delaminated floor areas

Key advantages

• Trafficable on foot in just 2-3 hours at 20°C — a genuine weekend fix rather than a week-long shutdown
• High strength development: >20 N/mm² compressive at 24 hours, climbing past 50 N/mm² by 28 days
• Virtually shrinkage-free hardening (0.1 mm/m) — far less curling and edge-cracking risk than a site-batched sand-cement patch
• Pumpable and self-flowing, so large or awkward floor areas can be laid quickly with minimal hand-troweling
• Single-component powder — just add ~14% water; no resin ratios or pot-life surprises to manage on site
• Overcoatable in 24 hours, and compatible with the full MC-DUR resin coating range for a complete, single-source floor build-up
• Wide working thickness (10-50 mm) covers most re-profiling and levelling jobs with one product instead of switching between grades
• Backed by a documented technical data sheet with verifiable strength, consumption and timing figures — useful when a consultant wants numbers, not marketing copy

Limitations & considerations

• Requires a two-coat MC-DUR 1177 WV-A primer with a quartz sand broadcast — it cannot simply be poured onto bare, unprimed concrete
• Rated for 10-50 mm layer thickness; not intended for thin (<10 mm) cosmetic skim repairs
• Must be shot-blasted and cleaned before overcoating to remove surface laitance — an added labour and equipment step
• Published working time, strength-gain and walkability figures are lab values at 21°C±2°C / 50% RH; hot Indian site conditions will shorten working and walkability windows in practice
• Finished colour is plain grey cement — it needs an MC-DUR (or equivalent) coating on top for colour, chemical resistance, or heavy abrasion duty
• 12-month shelf life applies only to unopened bags stored cool (below 20°C) and dry — needs proper warehousing discipline on an Indian site, not open yard storage

Selection & best practice

Specifications

Industry use cases

How we position MC-Bauchemie MC-Floor Screed 10

Within MC-Bauchemie’s own range, MC-Floor Screed 10 is the fast-track option: for a bonded screed job that doesn’t need same-day trafficability, MC-Floor Screed BE covers a wider 9-70 mm thickness range at a more conventional cure schedule, while Emcefloor PCC pro is the better fit for thin (3-20 mm) self-levelling overlay work rather than deep re-profiling. It’s engineered to be finished with the MC-DUR primer and coating range (MC-DUR 1177 WV-A as primer, MC-DUR TopSpeed or the wider MC-DUR system for the wearing coat), so specifying it effectively locks in a matched MC-Bauchemie system rather than a mix-and-match repair — a real advantage for warranty and long-term performance, worth flagging to the client up front. Against the market, its closest genuine equivalent is Fosroc’s Nitoflor Levelcrete, a comparable single-pack polymer-modified cementitious levelling compound; the practical trade-off is speed versus familiarity — MC-Floor Screed 10’s 2-3 hour walkability beats Levelcrete’s 10-16 hours, which matters most when a plant genuinely cannot afford more than a weekend shutdown. UltraTech Floorkrete is a lower-cost, locally-made polymer-modified screed mortar worth mentioning to price-sensitive buyers, though it doesn’t carry the same documented fast-track performance data. Space Arc stocks and applies the MC-Bauchemie system across Delhi NCR and pan-India and can advise on which of these three routes fits a given shutdown window and budget.

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