The "Beeck'sche Farbwerke"
In 1894, the company founder Ludwig Beeck developed a pure, silicification-active mineral paint based on potassium water glass, which creates an inseparable bond between the paint and the microporous substrate.
During the building boom of the fifties and sixties, however, consistently produced mineral paints lost importance and building damage caused by the misapplication of synthetic resins on porous-mineral building materials increased.
Contrary to the trend towards synthetic resin dispersion paints, the Beeck company remained true to the development and production of purely natural paint systems and, in addition to mineral paints, also developed plant-based paints under the AGLAIA brand from 1968.
In 1972, Gerhard Osterle, the subsequent owner, builds a new production facility in Laichingen in the Swabian Jura and, together with other specialists, dedicates himself to the further development of mineral and natural colours in his own development and application laboratory.
Since 2017, the new Managing Director Timo Ascherl and his team have continued to work together with the owner THYMOS AG on sensible, modern and natural solutions for the requirements of high-quality coating materials
Nevertheless, the BEECK company has remained true to its traditional values and continues to work consistently with natural raw materials such as beeswax, linseed oil, dammar and milk casein.
The original recipe of company founder Ludwig Beeck is still used today in the preservation of historic buildings and continues to ensure a wide range of colours and enormous durability.
Product innovation
The fossilisation of liquid potassium silicate into solid, chemically extremely resistant and weather-resistant silicates is called silicification. Pure silicate paints are highly durable and lightfast and are preferably applied to historic buildings. However, this requires precise knowledge and procedures.
The BEECK active silicate formulation ASF® perfectly combines the properties of pure silicate paints and dispersion silicate paints in accordance with DIN VOB 18363, promotes the intensive silicification of the paint and substrate and thus enables paints with unsurpassed durability, even on facades exposed to the elements. The colours can be easily applied by laymen and professionals!
In contrast to dispersion (plastic) based paints, which adhere to the building material surface and tend to crack, silicate paint does not flake off the substrate, but is extremely durable and resistant to UV radiation, organic solvents and paint strippers.
The capillary-active paint ensures ideal open porosity, a balanced, healthy indoor climate and is therefore particularly valuable in terms of building physics. The high alkalinity has an anti-mould and bactericidal effect.
The positive properties of Beeck's formulations can be achieved not only on historic buildings, but also on composite materials and lightweight construction elements.
Colour variety
Beeck can look back on a successful history enriched with expertise. A number of historic buildings and new buildings have been embellished with the colours of the Laichingen-based company, thus providing optimum and sustainable protection for their building fabric.
What also speaks for the use of Beeck and AGLAIA products is the infinite variety of colours.
Beeck offers an extensive range of antique colours as well as classic and modern pigmentation, can mix any NCS and RAL shade and can also restore individual colours based on old coats of paint after analysis.
