Kemtile has supported the UK’s leading provider of best-in-class pharmaceutical solutions - using Stonhard products to realise the client’s mission of expanding its research and manufacturing centre.
Having supported life-science partners in delivering therapeutics across the globe for nearly 30 years, the East Midlands facility was ready for further expansion.
Two key areas in the facility were left “fallow” following a previous construction project, and the site wanted to utilise this extra space for production expansion. Kemtile had completed work on this site several years ago, meaning their team was perfectly placed to offer advice and assistance on the scheme and design specification.
Our flooring specialists installed new floors and drainage through a partner firm - a pharmaceutical design and qualification consultancy specialising in manufacturing, research, emerging technologies and highly regulated industries like biotechnology, life sciences and radiopharmaceutical - as well as a drainage company to create “bespoke” drainage gullies, channel extensions and sealed manhole covers and frames.
The project included the installation of 200m2 of heavy duty SBR Co-Polymer screed laid to “falls” and then the installation of Stonshield HRI – a 5mm thick, epoxy based durable flooring system with a decorative, slip-resistant surface. The trowelled base layer of this product provides superior impact resistance, being easily applied over rough substrates. The quartz top shield layer also makes for an attractive floor surface that is textured for safety. A matching cove detail was also installed to provide a profile along the wall line to aid cleaning.
Kemtile also installed new plinths cast in concrete to support the new process tanks, which were fully rendered with the Stonshield Cove Base material to complement the flooring installation.
Project lead Dave Sleight stated: “We knew the facility very well having worked on site before, so we were able to give the advice the client wanted and needed with regards to flooring works.
“The project involved a careful and considered approach. Access to the factory was a challenge given its central location and compact dimensions, and once we were in, we had to find a way to raise and extend the existing drainage in one area - modifying and filling in the drainage in another whilst fitting a new manhole cover and frame.
“The floor also needed lifting due to level difference in adjacent rooms where doorways were to be made.”
