News

New colleague with wide construction experience
For technical questions about our products, from now on Dipl. Ing. FH Jens Steinke is at your service. Now 34 years old, he has already experienced the construction industry from several different angles.
12 / 2012 - Harmonisation becomes compulsory
Up to now there were no uniform, EU-wide testing requirements for bitumen coatings. That is due to change next year. It is planned that a harmonised standard will be issued in December this year, which will be binding from 2013: EN 15814.
12 / 2012 - Quality to feel
Many of the properties and quality features of bituminous sealants are much easier to recognise when you can look closer at the product and feel it too. Usually such products are used soon after they arrive and disappear unseen below ground.
12 / 2012 - A clean job
No leakage – no mess. New packaging for our products Bitumen Primer and Bitumen Primer LF. From January 2013 the two liquid primers will be delivered in leakproof plastic canisters with screw closures.
06 / 2012 - NEW: RASCO 2K Bitumen Reactive Sealant.
Especially for large projects, it is today more important than ever to offer high-quality performance effectively, as flexibly as possible and at competitive prices. RASCO has now developed the new RASCO 2K Bitumen Reactive Sealant especially for professional sealing specialists. It permits more flexibility and greater speed of application, and so is outstandingly economical.
06 / 2012 - RASCO helps with your sales.
Recently RASCO has started offering its customers targeted support to optimise their marketing activities. And this help comes just there where it is individually needed. The objective is to increase customers’ market success with Rasco products and to improve the competitive situation for individual customers. To do this a catalogue has been developed with promotional materials and measures, which are highly effective and, at the same time, affordable.
06 / 2012 - Quality assurance as a competitive advantage.
Quality assurance and sustainability number among the top subjects in modern, efficient enterprises. In late summer 2011, the company management at RASCO Bitumentechnik GmbH decided to implement a comprehensive management concept for quality, the environment and work safety (TQM).
06 / 2012 - New capacity in Sales and Marketing
Stefan Schäfer joined the sales department at RASCO Bitumentechnik GmbH on 1st. November 2011. Now 40 years old, he brings 20 years experience in wholesale sales to RASCO, 18 of them in field sales.
09 / 2010 - Joints sealed with 2K KMB poly 157 stand up to the severest conditions
The two-component, polymer-modified bitumen coating Rasco 2K BitumenCoating poly 157 can be used for external, strip-type sealing of working joints between concrete construction elements with high resistance to water penetration...
05 / 2010 - Farewell into retirement
After more than ten years of being part of the company, Mr Wilfried Steinhoff retired on the 16th April 2010...
04 / 2010 – Improved Formulations
Our rigorous research and development work has resulted once again in significant improvements to our products Rasco 1K BitumenCoating Classic, Rasco 2K BitumenCoating Classic, and Rasco 2K BitumenCoating poly Classic...
10 / 2009 - new roofing product: Rasco RepairTape - Aluminium
With immediate effect we offer in our roofing product range a cold-applied, self-adhesive, UV-resistant, vapour-diffusion-proof, bitumen-based universal sealing tape for sealing against wind and water and for repair work on roofs...
08 / 2009 - successful relaunch of Rasco’s Internet presence
In the middle of 2009 the Rasco Bitumentechnik GmbH decided to relaunch its Internet presence. For the manufacturer of high quality products for the preservation of structures and buildings the Internet became a more and more important channel of distribution...
07 / 2009 - fully automated palletisation for Rasco Bitumentechnik GmbH
Due to wider range of products, increasing demands and industrial safety reasons a fully automated palletisation became necessary. Because of it’s flexibility and compact contruction, Rasco Bitumentechnik decided...