Completion date:

June 2008

Size of floor

Approximately 4,000 square metres.

Installation Programme

The flooring was installed in a number of phases over six months to meet AkzoNobel's critical schedule, plant to be kept in production.

Existing Floors

Large areas of asphalt flooring the balance being old concrete floors.

The Elgood Service

Elgood Industrial Flooring were selected for their project management experience, installation flexibility, and high quality products. These features result from employing their own full time employed resin floor layers, and "in house" manufacturing of high performance products.

AkzoNobel Required

AkzoNobel were creating a highly automated production facility with extensive use of robots throughout the production process.

The new floor had to provide a suitable base for LGV (laser guided vehicles), in this case robotic fork trucks that carry pallets of DULUX paint from the production line to the robotic shrink wrap facility.

In addition, the flooring had to provide an attractive industrial floor throughout this prestige facility, capable of withstanding pallet and fork truck movement.

Preparation

Around 900 square metres of 25mm thick asphalt was removed using milling machines over a weekend. All concrete areas were prepared by enclosed dust free shotblasting. Please see another example of this in action on our Project Management Page.

The specified flooring

The Elgood Britdura Epoxy Screed laid to an average thickness of approximately 25mm over an area of 900 square metres, to replace asphalt and maintain floor levels.

The Britdura 750 Highbuild Solvent Free Epoxy Floor Coating was applied to all existing concrete areas.

Colours: Light Grey for the majority of the floor. Charcoal for Forklift routes. Brilliant Red for hazardous areas. Grass Green for walkways and white zebra crossings.

UK Manufactured

The Britdura flooring systems are manufactured by Elgood Industrial Flooring in a new purpose built facility based in the UK.