Flooring for the beverage industry

Contingency planning is probably one of the most significant issues facing our modern industrialised world, in particular when equipping today‘s industrial plants to face the demands they will have to face in the future. It is becoming increasingly important to use materials which are not just economical to apply but also keep service life costs, e.g. maintenance and repairs, as low as possible.

This is certainly true for the heavily used floors found in beverage plants. New long-term studies have now proved that the cheap flooring simply cannot meet the demands for safety and hygiene in this industry.

Methacrylic resins (so-called MMAs), with their high resistance to wear-and-tear, are able to substantially reduce the cracks, tears and larger fissures which fungus and bacteria use to contaminate a floor. These reactive resin systems are actually made to withstand high-pressure and wet power machine cleaning. At the same time, they also offer all the prerequisites required for quick and easy repairs which are often unavoidable when a floor is exposed to heavy loads over a long period of time. If one used the term “application safety“ to describe the value of Silikal reactive resins, one could actually create a mathematical formula to calculate the usefulness of these flooring systems.