CPC Floor Coatings Blog

Industrial and commercial floors take serious abuse. Daily foot traffic, heavy machinery, large equipment, and constantly-moving inventory can all wear it down bit by bit, eventually causing areas of noticeable damage.

If you are an industrial or commercial site owner (whether it's a retail space, manufacturing plant, warehouse, or another type of facility), then you have the monumental task of selecting a flooring option that can withstand high levels of daily wear and tear. Here are some of the options and their varying levels of suitability:

Getting your floor surface ready for a professionally-applied industrial floor coating is one of the most important parts of our job. Preparing your surface the right way can mean having a long-lasting, beautiful, and easy-to-clean industrial floor coating for decades to come.

Preparation involves many steps, which you can read about in our in-depth floor surface preparation post, but the final step once the surface is chemically cleaned and dried is to carve out a rough texture. This texture helps create a high-friction surface for the coating to bond with, which helps prevent failures and makes the coating last longer. Textured floor surfaces also give your professional industrial floor coating installation crew more control during application, allowing for a surface as smooth and level as a still mountain lake.

Here are the methods used to ensure proper surface prep and achieve yet another satisfied customer:

Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a major profit killer in the electronics industry. Businesses that store, handle, manufacture, or otherwise interact with electronic products on a regular basis run the risk of damaging them when an ESD event occurs. Just the tiniest of ESD shocks — so small that the human nervous system cannot detect it — can be enough to cause harm or completely destroy exposed or under-insulated circuit boards when they are handled by employees.

To combat this danger and plug up a major source of leaking revenue, electronics companies and companies that interact with microchip-enabled consumer products must find ways to prevent ESD events from happening. One of the most comprehensive methods for reducing or eliminating ESDs is by using electrostatic dissipative flooring.

In order to better understand ESD and electrostatic dissipative flooring we've answered several of our most frequently-asked questions:

After 40 years in the floor coatings business, we’ve worked with countless businesses, manufacturers, retailers, and even those in the healthcare and community services fields. As we work with clients to determine the best flooring solutions for their needs, we find ourselves recommending epoxy floor coatings time after time.

Epoxy is one of the most versatile flooring solutions for all sorts of commercial, industrial, educational, and healthcare facilities, and it can be tailored to many different types of conditions and needs.

If you’re not yet familiar with epoxy floor coatings and what they can do, here are 10 things you should know:

In order to lengthen the lifespan and maintain the quality of your flooring, correct surface preparation is key. Surface prep done right can ensure the proper bond of the new coating, increasing durability and maintaining aesthetics. With older and existing industrial floor coatings, there are a few steps that need to be taken when conducting surface preparation.

Floor surface preparation is likely the most important step in applying industrial floor coatings. Whether that coating’s purpose is to waterproof, protect from impacts, add friction, or serve a decorative function, it can physically and chemically fail as a result of an improper surface preparation.

If you own a business that operates out of an industrial facility, you may be wondering about the upkeep and maintenance of your flooring. Most industrial facilities see a lot of traffic across their floors, and the best way to keep your workspace safe and clean is to install a floor coating.

Nothing brings out the aesthetic qualities of concrete quite like a shiny urethane floor coating. Urethane can completely rejuvenate the appearance of an aging concrete floor, while protecting it from impacts, oils, dirt, and abrasion. And not only is urethane strong—under the right conditions, it can last for a decade or more.

Before a beautiful new urethane floor coating can be applied, the old concrete surface must be prepped. Otherwise, the coating will not bind to the floor evenly, and bubbles, cracks, or other problems could result. At times the coating will fail completely and begin to peel off within months or even weeks.

This is why proper concrete surface preparation before application is priority number one.

Here are the vital steps to prepare your old concrete floor so that the new urethane floor coating will look great and function as well as possible:

If you own an industrial facility, commercial space, or community building that needs a new floor coating, you’re probably wondering where to even start. With so many options out there today, it can be difficult to decide which is best for your facility.

If you’ve decided against options such as concrete polishing and have settled on a coating, the next question is what kind of industrial floor coating to go for.

Two of the most common choices are urethane and epoxy. They can look rather similar to the untrained eye (in this photo, urethane is on the left and epoxy is on the right), but they have different properties.

Below we’ve weighed the benefits and drawbacks of each:

In restaurants and food manufacturing facilities alike, your flooring must meet USDA standards to ensure the health and safety of your employees and customers. A simple way to accomplish this for a new or refurbished facility is to install a USDA-approved concrete floor coating.

Once this coating (which may be a specialized urethane or epoxy) has been installed, it will require proper care and maintenance in order to uphold the established standards.

Here’s a quick guide to keeping it in proper working order: