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February 25, 2025September 26, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

This question is regularly reacted to with fear, and then answered like a politician avoiding direct questions to the latest scandal. It is a simple enough question, but is too often asked out of context. It should follow the questions that ask the type of floor system needed and the surface preparation required. Understanding that ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 23, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

What Is ESD Flooring, How Does how does esd flooring work, and Why Do We Need It? An ESD Flooring system serves as a conduit for electrical static charge (known as BVG or Body Voltage Generation accumulation on a person from movement across a polymer floor) to discharge to a desired controlled ground point. This ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 21, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

With today’s food safety requirements, it is more important than ever to properly design and implement a contamination prevention plan that covers all critical control points in your process like food flooring sanitation guidelines. But, are you presenting your well-designed HACCP plan as a marketing and sales tool? Highlighting, or marketing, your contamination prevention processes ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 20, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

Is Your Food Safety Focus on Prevention? The Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA), passed in 2011, is the biggest revision of the food safety system since the first national law was enacted over a century ago. These new rules and food flooring sanitation procedures seek to create a preventive, food safety system that is ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 19, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

Secondary containment is defined as a means of surrounding one or more primary storage containers to collect any material spills in the event of container failure. It is surprising that some liquids you can drink could cost you thousands of dollars if your tank leaked into surrounding rivers, lakes and ground water. A few years ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 15, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

Regular cleaning of your food manufacturing plant is a mandatory part of your sanitation program. It’s a major investment of time and money. And, you probably feel that you are doing everything you can to control contamination and meet your food flooring sanitation standards. Contamination Risks Are Always Present in Your Facility. Controlling bacteria is ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 14, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) of 2011 changed the emphasis from responding to food safety issues to proactively preventing them with food safe flooring. This shift created a preventative approach to sanitation and a significant demand for products that could inhibit the growth of mold, mildew and other dangerous microbes. Both FDA and USDA ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 13, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

Understand What Your Floor Needs The most obvious answer to this question is to stress the importance of working with a polymer flooringexpert to recommend, specify and properly install the correct concrete coating or resurfacing system to address their unique performance requirements to ensure there is no concrete contamination. Proper floor and wall coating ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 12, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

Epoxy floors are resilient, impact resistant, somewhat flexible and hard. They definitely supplement an efficient, durable and long lasting floor coating system by providing build thickness. However, in most cases, the best results come from an epoxy floor with a thin-film polyurethane (often referred to as a “urethane”) topcoat. This is because a polyurethane topcoat ... Read more

February 25, 2025September 9, 2016 by Protective Industrial Polymers

It’s easy to take your floor for granted. Every day, it’s on the job and is literally the “foundation” of your business. You may think about it sometimes or notice an area that needs repair, but you can always easily put off an evaluation of your floor till tomorrow. There is no warning red light ... Read more

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