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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
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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
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  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
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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
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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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A case for floor repair/recoat for a thin-film coating system General industrial operations require floor coatings that are safe, light-reflectant, and able to stand up to general foot and cart traffic. When installed properly, with proper cleaning and maintenance, thin-film coating systems can provide long, useful service lives. Provided the concrete substrate is in good ... Read more
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Many people are first made aware of the metallic epoxy floor coating because they find a picture on the internet of a beautiful industrial floor design that looks elegant and unique, or see the coating in a nice restaurant or showroom. Some may be puzzled by what material is being used, and some may be ... Read more
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Did you know there’s a lot more to selecting a polymer floor than meets the eye? Careful assessment of your facility processes can go a long way in determining a solution that is right for your business. Polymer floors can best be broken down into four classification types: High-Build Coating Systems High-build floor systems typically ... Read more
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Your floor is walked on by your employees, forklifts move materials across it, production equipment operates on it, tools fall on it and chemicals spill over it. Over time, your floor could start looking pretty bad. You want your staff to have a pleasant and safe working environment. What else does your floor need to ... Read more
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We often view industrial production floors as a potential source of danger. A liquid spill could cause an employee to slip, a badly worn surface may increase wear on tow motor equipment, or line striping meant to warn workers about potentially dangerous conditions can wear off and become useless. Your floor is that common element ... Read more
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