{"id":2325,"date":"2026-05-29T00:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T00:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mercol.com.au\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2026-06-08T10:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T10:47:10","slug":"hacer-group-testimonial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mercol.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/hacer-group-testimonial\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacer Group Testimonial"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2325\" class=\"elementor elementor-2325\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70228b4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"70228b4\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6666215 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6666215\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4><strong>Mercol\u2019s premixed mortar solution greatly mitigated Health Risks on our project.<\/strong><\/h4><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal;\">Through their innovative dustless \u201cmix as you need\u201d Silo solution, silica exposure is significantly reduced to almost zero. Manual handling risks are significantly reduced through not having to handle dry sand, cement and aggregate by shovel in the conventional manner in a barrow mixer.<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal;\">Michael (their director) is very helpful and always went the extra mile to ensure their product was of consistently high quality, and delivered on time.<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal;\">We used Mercol from the start of our \u00a0project which consisted of in excess of 500,000 hand laid bricks with no issues.<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal;\">To this end, I look forward to using Mercol on my next project.<\/p><p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; line-height: 18.4px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: #000000; letter-spacing: normal;\"><strong>Daniel Palmarini<\/strong><br \/><em>Senior Site Manager<\/em><br \/><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hacer.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Hacer Group<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercol\u2019s premixed mortar solution greatly mitigated Health Risks on our project.<br \/>\nThrough their innovative dustless \u201cmix as you need\u201d Silo solution, silica exposure is significantly reduced to almost zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hacer Group Testimonial - MERCOL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mercol.com.au\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/hacer-group-testimonial\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hacer Group Testimonial - MERCOL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mercol\u2019s premixed mortar solution greatly mitigated Health Risks on our project. 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