Best Practices for Job Site Chemistry

The sensitive environments of the food and beverage industry require equally sensitive industrial flooring systems handled with an expert touch.

Designing a state-of-the-art food or beverage processing facility requires detailed upfront planning that focuses on food safety as the top consideration in every single building decision. From the walls to the floors, the water and drainage systems, surfaces, refrigeration and everything in between, food processing and manufacturing plants must be safe from contamination and easy to maintain.

Hygienic Design

The sensitive nature of food and beverage processing environments necessitates the use of equally sensitive products and equipment when constructing or repairing the floor. Because the floor must withstand a variety of by-products including fats, hot oils, blood, sugar solutions and natural food acids as well as rigorous wash downs for cleaning, it is essential that exposed concrete slabs in any place where food and beverage products are produced, processed, packaged or stored be protected with a high-performance flooring system. Because of their hygienic profile and hardwearing performance, flooring installation specialists are more likely specifying seamless resin-based surfaces for these environments that any other industrial flooring system today.

Prepackaged, Pre-Weighed, Pre-Measured

Whether you choose cementitious urethane, methyl methacrylate (MMA), epoxy or other resin-based, high-performance product, choose a flooring installation partner with an expert degree of specialist knowledge to ensure that specifications are correct and the flooring system will be properly installed. This includes an installer who uses best practices for product mixing.
“A product should arrive at the job site prepackaged, pre-weighed, pre-measured, so there’s no need for job site chemistry,” says Steve Hess, President of Surface Solutions USA. “This is critical to a quality installation because these products are very sensitive. They have to be mixed very precisely, and the way we achieve that is through batch mixing of individual, prepackaged, pre-weighed, pre-measured materials.”

Once the material is thoroughly mixed and streak free, Surface Solutions’ expert installers transfer it to a custom designed wheelbarrow that moves each individual batch to a screed box, which applies the flooring product to the primed substrate at a uniform thickness.

“This way, you know you’re going to get a quality product,” Mr. Hess says.

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About Surface Solutions

Surface Solutions is an independent industrial floor contractor specializing in seamless, polymer flooring systems utilizing the most trusted brands in the industry. From testing to consultation and complete installation services, Surface Solutions is your premiere source of non-toxic, safe and environmentally friendly flooring systems, offering turnkey installations using only in-house personnel. All installations come with a complete single source warranty.