The advantages of resin flooring for the food and beverage industry

PETERBOROUGH, U.K. - May 5, 2015 - PRLog -- Over many years, resin flooring (http://www.degafloor.com/resin-flooring/) has become the product of choice within thefood and beverage (http://www.degafloor.com/markets/food-drink/) processing industry.

Despite this, some companies still rely on tiles and even vinyl sheet flooring for these most demanding of areas.

Whilst tiles and vinyl sheet are good products, they are often poorly equipped to cope with the rigors of a busy food and beverage environment and typically life expectancy will be limited.

Resin flooring is most often selected as it offers substantial benefits, including:

Resin flooring is totally seamless.  This offers both hygiene benefits (no gaps and joints in which bacteria and debris can reside) and longevity benefits (as grouting and vinyl joints can, and do, fail resulting in accelerated deterioration).
Resin flooring offers outstanding slip resistance.  Due to the insitu application of resin flooring, surface texture can be tailored to ensure that a high degree of slip resistance is available in dry, wet and contaminated conditions.  This allows resin flooring to offer the best performance available at the extremes of site operating conditions.
Resin flooring is applied and bonds directly to the substrate.  This factor alone provides outstanding durability.  Resin flooring does not tear like vinyl (which is only ‘glued’ down) and does not suffer from the impact damage that can blight tiles (often due to adhesive voids or weakness).
Resin flooring is typically impervious and provides excellent resistance to a wide range of chemicals and food / beverage processing by-products.  Whilst certain tiles offer excellent acid resistance, resin flooring offers the best resistance to the widest range of potential spills, providing a much reduced risk of failure and discoloration.
Resin flooring offers outstanding value for money.  When the speed of installation, longevity, performance and warranties of resin flooring are considered alongside these parameters for other flooring options, resin quite clearly provides the absolute best value available.

In addition to these main factors, each specific resin type can offer other unique advantages (http://www.degafloor.com/resin-flooring/features-benefits...) and some types perform better than others, so it is essential to get the best advice available.  To do so, it is recommended that anyone considering a resin floor should only approach a member of FeRFA (the Resin Flooring Association) (http://www.ferfa.org.uk/).