what it takes to have quality industrial flooring
Quality flooring is key to success in food and beverage, pharmaceutical, veterinary and heavy manufacturing. It impacts many aspects of your operations, such as productivity and safety. If your flooring has cracks or other deteriorating factors, it will reduce productivity. Employees should not worry about avoiding bumps or damages to conduct their duties. Quality industrial ... Read more
Controlling harmful electrostatic discharge is a hidden prerequisite in designing modern industrial facilities. Specifying anti-static flooring should be a priority when choosing surface materials. Before explaining ESD flooring, the first thing to define is ESD itself, which stands for electrostatic discharge. ESD is the release of static electricity when two objects come into contact. Getting ... Read more
An ESD flooring system helps control the static electric charge safely and serves as a barrier from accumulating a person’s movement across a polymer floor. The correct ESD flooring can significantly reduce or even eliminate the ESD charge. The reduction or elimination is essential since releasing the electrostatic charge can cause massive damage to sensitive ... Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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