Industrial Flooring Types
The Benefits Of Each
- What are the different types of industrial flooring available, and which industrial settings do they suit?
- What are the benefits of the different types of industrial flooring options?
- Why should you choose RESPOL as your industrial flooring contractor?
What Are The Different Types Of Industrial Flooring Available, What Are Their Benefits, And Which Settings Do They Suit?
- Formulation: Epoxy resins are polyepoxides (reactive prepolymers and polymers that contain epoxide groups) that, chemically, are known for their durability and reliability, as evidenced by the fact that epoxy is commonly used as a strong adhesive.
- Flooring Benefits: Epoxy coatings provide concrete floors with an easy-to-clean, smooth and non-permeable surface that can be both functional and decorative. Epoxy resin flooring is highly resistant and durable, particularly to heavy machinery, heavy foot traffic, large impacts and spillages, including chemical spills. It can also be enhanced, with RESPOL’s co-reactants, to make it anti-static, as well as provide it with chemical resistance and slip resistance.
- Industrial Environments It Suits: Due to its durable nature, epoxy flooring can suit environments such as garages, warehouses, factories, and pharmaceutical and food and beverage facilities.
- Formulation: Concrete densifier is a chemical hardener which is evenly spread across concrete flooring to enable it to penetrate the top layer of the concrete surface.
- Flooring Benefits: This concrete coating fills porous holes and offers resistance to spillage, abrasion and damage through increasing the surface density of the concrete. It can also be used on both non-polished and polished concrete floors.
- Industrial Environments It Suits: These benefits make concrete densifier flooring a popular choice for a wide range of industrial environments and industrial applications, especially those that occur in industrial settings such as factories and warehouses.
- Formulation: Polyurethane is a synthetic resin which combines a base polyol, additives and isocyanates.
- Flooring Benefits: Often viewed as an alternative to epoxy resin flooring, polyurethane flooring is known for its easy-to-clean, durable nature that provides optimal performance in industrial settings. It also offers resistance to thermal shock, abrasion, UV, temperature and chemicals.
- Industrial Environments It Suits: Polyurethane flooring is often favoured as the right flooring for heavy-duty industrial settings, particularly in the manufacturing sector, where heavy traffic and heavy machinery are commonplace. It is also popular for multi-storey carparks and the food and beverage sector, as it is spillage-resistant. Other industrial environments that may use polyurethane flooring are pharmaceutical and healthcare manufacturing facilities.
- Formulation: Polymer flooring is available in both pumped and the more traditional hand-laid option.
- Flooring Benefits: Polymer flooring is incredibly resistant to corrosion, external factors, heat, and thermal fluctuations. It can also be used as an anti-osmosis system.
- Industrial Environments It Suits: Polymer floors are common in high-traffic areas, where spillages are commonplace, such as hospitals and factories.
- Formulation: MMA, or methyl methacrylate, is a type of liquid monomer that can be bonded with other molecules to form polymers. When bonded, MMA hardens into a hard-wearing, durable material.
- Flooring Benefits: Industrial concrete floors utilising methyl methacrylate are often chosen because of their unparalleled installation times. MMA-based acrylic resins are incredibly fast-curing and can handle heavy traffic (foot and vehicular) in as little as two hours! MMA flooring can also be installed in extreme hot or cold temperatures without the bonding or curing process of the resin being impacted.
- Industrial Environments It Suits: MMA flooring is a popular choice for chemical, automotive and electronic industrial settings; basically any industrial space where heavy machinery, heavy equipment, high temperatures or dangerous substances are present.
- Formulation: Air bearing industrial floors utilise innovative air flotation technology, which creates a cushion layer between heavy machinery and the floor.
- Flooring Benefits: Air flotation technology prevents floor damage and creates a highly tolerant, smooth, seamless floor surface.
- Industrial Environments It Suits: This makes it ideal for environments that use heavy machinery or require heavy loads to be moved, such as power stations and industrial and aircraft manufacturing facilities.
Why Should You Choose RESPOL As Your Industrial Flooring Contractor?
With over 30 years of experience as an award-winning industrial flooring contractor, you can rely on RESPOL to deliver high-quality, high-performance flooring solutions that suit the exact requirements of your applications and industries. Offering all the above types of industrial flooring, our team make an informed decision that aligns the correct type with your facility’s operations. We offer both functional, decorative and specialist solutions to further tailor your floors to your specifications. At RESPOL, we understand that different types of flooring will have different benefits in different industrial environments, which is why it is our goal to find the right industrial flooring for you.
From design, preparation, and installation to repair and maintenance, you can rely on RESPOL for high-quality, reliability, and longevity. To enquire about our flooring services and available industrial flooring solutions, or to find out more information, get in touch for a free, no-obligation survey. Feel free to contact us here or give us a call on 01952 740400.