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Trowel-on heavy duty industrial resin system by Plastifloor®

Vanessa Ashmore • August 25, 2021

We are all familiar with the adage “Time is money” and this is certainly true for food and beverage manufacturing facilities where downtime is hugely expensive and making time for new line installations, line upgrades, and carving out time for maintenance windows is a constant struggle. 


Plastifloor® MMA resin flooring is a truly remarkable product with numerous benefits, of which its rapid curing properties are probably most noteworthy. If you have not already done so, I would strongly encourage readers to familiarize themselves with the difference between cure time and set time . It is an aspect often neglected when discussing floor properties, yet understanding this aspect will help you choose a floor that can deliver what it promises in the limited time available for upgrading or installing a new floor. 


Here are some notable advantages of opting for a Plastifloor® trowel on system:

 

  • The trowel-on system achieves a full chemical cure in only two hours, which translates into time and money saved. 
  • With a compressive strength of 80-95Mpa, the trowel on system offers exceptional impact resistance. 
  • Plastifloor’s unique primers penetrate deep into the profiled surface creating an unmatched chemical bond that protects against delamination and allows us to warrantee the bond to substrate.
  • Hard-wearing sealers protect against thermal, chemical, and mechanical loads. Facilities with particularly harsh thermal, chemical or mechanical operational environments will benefit from Plastifloor’s range of additives that will further elevate the properties of the floor to levels seldom matched in the industry.
  • Our installations are warranted for up to ten years.
  • Even in manufacturing environments aesthetics is important, and our vast colour palette of around 200 colours can be blended in unlimited permutations. 

 

Over the years we have installed in excess of 18,000 sqm of MMA resin flooring, some of which are more than 10 years old and are still going strong. Phone or email us for more information about our references.

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