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Flooring is a significant way to improve the operations within your business. The proper flooring selection can enhance your investment and increase employee and customer safety. Therefore, understanding what goes into having a quality floor will help you get the most out of it and improve your operations. For example, while one flooring type may ... Read more
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Ensuring your industrial flooring is safe is a fundamental step in providing safety for anyone who enters the building. Flooring that is compromised can lead to injuries in several ways. The best way to prevent this and ensure safety is to clean, update and protect your flooring. Abrasion resistance One way to provide excellent floor care ... Read more
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When you don’t know what best fits your company, coating your industrial floors can be overwhelming. Therefore, you must take the necessary steps to find the right solution that best fits your facility, application needs and budget. Coatings are important to the lifespan of your industrial floors, thus making a big impact on your overall ... Read more
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Specifying the right flooring system to satisfy your unique performance, durability and aesthetic requirements is a learned process. There are so many quality industrial flooring and design solutions available on the market today, it is a monumental task to decipher which solution is the right one for your business process. The truth is, there is ... Read more
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Epoxy vs polyurethane is a common topic brought up during my conversations. Often, I receive a call from a facility manager who has been tasked with coating his or her production floor. The conversation usually starts off something like this: “I need you to take a look at my concrete floor,” the facility manager says. ... Read more
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traditional esd floor
Can your ESD floor ground itself? Some suppliers of ESD flooring make this type of claim about grounding esd flooring. They may specifically use the term “self-grounding” to provide assurance the floor, by itself, will effectively provide the type of ESD protection that is required by you during esd flooring installation. But, all international ESD ... Read more
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cleaning industrial flooring and longer service life
Large industrial floor coating projects are indeed capital investments. You want to get the most use out of your investment for the longest you possibly can while meeting all of the epoxy flooring requirements. The best way to keep your floor performing optimally is with proper, routine cleaning and epoxy flooring maintenance. A scheduled cleaning ... Read more
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enhancing safety with clean industrial floors
Your flooring is literally the foundation of your business and employees use it to perform critical work processes. Every day, workers are taking thousands of steps on your floor and assume they are walking on a safe surface while performing their duties. In fact, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires employers to “provide ... Read more
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esd no longer for small spaces
In the past, ESD polymer flooring has been limited to a very small choice of color options.  This was due to the use of specialized ESD pigments which were used to make polymer coatings electrically active. Today, the new generation of ESD flooring technology utilizes a highly transparent topcoat that serves as its own ground ... Read more
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color on esd floor
Using color on your polymer floor is an easy way to help sustain your 5S programs.  It’s all about being organized and efficient.  You can use floor markings to establish and maintain areas of your production facility for dedicated purposes. But, ESD polymer flooring has traditionally been a 5S challenge due to a very small ... Read more

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Protective Industrial Polymers manufactures complete industrial flooring systems for manufacturing, commercial, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical and biotech markets, with a keen focus on ESD flooring control, ignition control and antimicrobial flooring solutions for today's high-tech industries. Protective Industrial Polymers also offers industrial flooring solutions for individual markets, including aviation, veterinary, medical, restaurant, brewing operations, etc. What sets us apart is our ability to provide unbiased recommendations. As a consultative manufacturer, we are not limited by our own capabilities or skill sets. This thorough analysis, combined with an understanding of your risk tolerance and capital spending strategies, allows us to then apply the two pieces of the puzzle to really make a good recommendation.

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