Industrial Flooring Solution Long-term performance | South Africa
Ucrete Industrial Flooring - Best value
It is easy to understand why a Ucrete floor is such good value for money, when you consider the risk to hygiene and safety of a failing floor and the costs in lost production and management time of replacing it. Ucrete gives you the best value for your money because it is a long-lived floor.
But where does this durability come from?
The durability is a result of a combination of factors, from the blend of high strength with resilience to the chemical and mechanical resistance of the floor. Aggregates are specifically selected for their toughness and abrasion resistance. We use the best raw materials, not the cheapest.
Proven in service since 1969
In the food industry, for example, organic acids are endemic; there are organic acids from milk, fruit or vegetable oils. As spillages evaporate, concentrations rise and so become more aggressive. The effects of such chemicals are accumulative and will become evident over time. The superior chemical resistance that a Ucrete floor provides is the safety margin that helps ensure that a Ucrete floor lasts 20 years or more.
Thicker floors are more durable than thinner floors, because the extra thickness protects the bond line from stress in service. Larger aggregates impart better scratch resistance and enable a floor to maintain its slip-resistant profile, especially where there is impact or frequent movements by hard plastic or steel wheeled traffic.
Durability comes from below
In order to get the best performance from your Ucrete floor, a well-designed substrate is required. Detail drawings and guidance notes are available. We can draw on our experience of over 50 years of Ucrete flooring to help you get the best results possible.
Contact your local Ucrete representative; they will be happy to assist you in making the right specification to meet all your needs.
Ucrete Industrial Flooing - Still in service after 35 years
In 1984, the Magor Brewery installed 2800 m2 of Ucrete flooring in its kegging hall (above). The floor takes hot water and chemical spillage under the keg washers as well as the impact from the occasional keg that manages to escape. The line fills up to 1000 barrels per hour round the clock. Stopping is not an option.
The initial investment in a quality Ucrete floor was far outweighed by the huge cost that closing this plant to replace the floor would entail. Following this floor, the brewery has installed many thousands of square meters of Ucrete floors and continues to do so today
Our contribution to sustainability
Making good use of limited resources Building and maintaining any kind of structure means
facing a key sustainability challenge: the consumption of natural resources.
Whole-life costs
Ucrete industrial flooring solutions contribute to sustainability in many respects throughout their life cycle. The longevity of Ucrete floors, with many 20 – 30-year-old floors still in service, helps to save precious resources. What could be more wasteful of raw materials, time and energy than ripping up and throwing away a floor after five or ten years?
Climate protection
The contribution of Ucrete floors to climate protection and saving of energy is demonstrated by independent environmental impact assessment.
BMG Engineering, Zurich, made such an assessment of Ucrete flooring. They looked at a scenario of a large commercial kitchen, as in a prison or a hospital, and compared a Ucrete UD200 specification against a typical tiled floor specification that traditionally might be used for this
application.
The results are compelling; square meter for square meter an equivalent tiled floor was found to have 50 % higher cumulative energy demand, 70 % higher global warming potential, 200 % higher ozone depletion potential and 50 % higher water use than a 9 mm thick Ucrete UD200 floor.
Clearly, Ucrete offers significant benefits for the environment.
Sustainable building
Systems to evaluate the sustainability of a building are becoming more and more important in the construction industry, and confirm the contribution of Ucrete floors to sustainable construction.
The Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design Green
Building Rating System LEED® provides a process to verify that a project was designed and built in a sustainable manner. It covers performance in key areas of human and environmental health: sustainable site development, water savings, energy efficiency, materials selection and indoor environmental quality.
With regard to materials selection, a series of credits are
made to encourage the use of more sustainable and environmentally friendly materials. A Product Information Statement for LEED® New Construction (NC) Version 3.0 Credit Documentation is available for all Ucrete flooring products and systems.
Protecting the air that we breathe
We are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of clean air. Emissions impacting air quality are controlled by a variety of national regulations and voluntary standards.
The Indoor Air Comfort Gold certification from Eurofins combines the most stringent specifications from all relevant European regulations and voluntary labels. Audit of production and quality control ensure that Ucrete meets all product emissions requirements. Ucrete grades give very low emissions and conform to all the emissions requirements for indoor flooring systems in Europe, including AgBB in Germany, M1 in Finland and Afsset in France.
Ucrete has been measured at A+, the best French emissions rating.
This demonstrates that Ucrete can provide floors without any volatile compounds that might taint foodstuffs or affect the well-being of personnel.
Keeping us safe
In daily use, Ucrete floors help our customers in many industries to meet their sustainability needs, for example when handling aggressive and noxious chemicals, Ucrete helps to provide the containment that prevents them from escaping into the environment.
Nothing is more wasteful than an accident in the workplace.
Ucrete slip-resistant and antistatic floors work tirelessly to keep everyone safe.
