An auto parts manufacturer enhances its facility with a durable industrial epoxy floor coating and clear line striping. These improvements provide better safety and long-lasting protection for the high-traffic manufacturing environment.
Products Used in This Video:
- Epoxy Coating – GARON GUARD™ (Two coats)
- Line Striping Paint – TIGERSTRIPE™
- Flexible Epoxy Joint Repair – Heavy Traffic – JOINT GUARD™
- Hairline Crack Filler – GARON POXYPASTE™
Video Recap:
This 106,000 square foot industrial facility required all aisleways to be coated and line
striped within a 6-day time frame. Working with a 45-year-old slab with multiple applications of epoxy flooring over the years resulted in peeling and delaminating of the coating. The concrete floor preparation and subsequent concrete floor repair (filling of deep voids, cracks and joints) all had play in yielding a completed floor under the industrial epoxy floor coating and striping requirements of the facility owner.
Quote from Engineer:
“Garon’s recommended installation team selected for this project did a fine job installing the specified coating and it looks great. Thanks for your assistance during the installation. The flooring installation team selected by Garon was geographically positioned close to our facility and the project went very well, the coatings look good.” ~ Senior Engineer
The Benefits of an Epoxy Floor Coating:
- Difficult logistics on this concrete floor coating installation required production to be left uninterrupted 24/7 and shipping and receiving lanes open throughout the entire floor coating installation.
- All floor coating materials specified by Garon had to be 100% odor free and the surface preparation equipment could not yield any airborne particulate as the owner’s sophisticated high technology production equipment running throughout the flooring project had zero tolerance for any dust.
- Garon’s full-service flooring installation was selected by the facility as an insurance policy to ensure their concrete floor coating project was completed on schedule, with adequate installer manpower and within budget. Garon worked with the owner to ensure proper controls on material specification and installation were installed for a successful outcome.
- A 100% epoxy coating [GARON GUARD™] was applied followed by a second coat yielding a nominal thickness of 30 mils installed throughout the facility.
- A 100% solids epoxy coating [TIGERSTRIPE™] was used for line striping throughout the aisleways to guide forklift traffic to shipping & receiving areas. , a hybrid urethane/epoxy expansion joint filler [JOINT GUARD™ and GARON POXYPASTE™] was used to fill and patch all small defects and cracks in the concrete slab prior to coating.
Facility Production Continues During Floor Coating Installation
- Garon’s Full-Service Flooring was chosen as time was of the essence for job completion.
- Time schedules were met. The installer left shipping lanes open and sensitive high-tech equipment adjacent to every area of the job safe from airborne dust and particulate.
- The owner-maintained production output, and shipping and receiving lanes continued unimpeded throughout this concrete floor coating project.
Industrial manufacturing facility floors take a beating. There is no exception for this auto parts manufacturer. To say that the facility aisle-ways are busy is an understatement. The aisle ways have constant heavy forklift traffic in this 24/7 production and warehousing area.
The 45 year old concrete floor had multiple coats of peeling floor coating that just couldn’t hold up to the daily grind of forklift traffic and production environment. They needed to repair the cracks and damaged concrete floor areas as well.
In addition to the epoxy floor coating application, line striping was added to the aisleways to guide the forklifts carrying cargo. The entire floor coating installation took place during full production, and because of the quick-drying properties of the 100% epoxy coating, they weren’t out of service in any one area for long and their due dates were met.
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The Problem: Old, peeling coating on all aisleways. |
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The Complexity: 24/7 manufacturing facility – had to be back in service with minimal downtime. |
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The Solution: Quick drying 100% epoxy floor coating and line striping. |
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The Result: A durable, bright and clean look with line striping guidance. |