MAPEI SUPPLIES SYSTEMS TO VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPIC VENUES

•  Canada Hockey Place (GM Place)

•  Olympic and Paralympic Village Vancouver

•  East and West buildings of the Main Media Centre at Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre

“Mapei supplied the building products that helped contractors meet their deadlines to bring the Olympics to British Columbia and British Columbia to the Olympic crowds,” said Luigi Di Geso, President and CEO of Mapei Americas. “In addition, this year we have expanded our facilities in Delta to handle the requirements of ongoing construction in the province.”

Mapei has been supplying concrete restoration and flooring installation systems to Olympic venues across the Americas and around the world since 1972. The company opened its first manufacturing plant outside of Italy in Laval, Canada, after exporting Ultrabond G19 to the contractors installing the rubber surface for tracks at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Ultrabond G19 (Adesilex G19 outside of North America) was also used on tracks at the Olympics in Munich, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing.

Mapei’s role in providing materials for the construction of Olympic venues in the Americas has grown over the years, embracing the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA, and the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, UT. Globally, Mapei’s products were most recently used on construction sites at the Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy, and the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. In 2009, 33 years after the 1976 Olympics, Mapei surface preparation products and tile and stone installation products were used to renovate the Olympic Pool at the Centre Sportif Claude Robillard in Montreal.

Additionally, Mapei products are already being used in the construction of sites for the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Byelorussia.