A leading food manufacturer specialising in the production of pizzas has brought in experts from Kemtile (a division of Stonhard) to oversee an extensive refresh to its packing area floor.
The reputable food business, established over 100 years ago, is a family firm where trust, reliability and sustainability are central to success. It produces a wide range of innovative baking products from its Northern HQ and manufacturing bases.
Over time its polyurethane (PU) flooring in the packaging area of its plant – some 2000m2 - had started to show serious signs of wear and tear with potential risks to health and safety.
Kemtile sent its team in to recommend a compliant, cost-effective, high-performance solution.
They prepared the existing PU flooring to enable the smooth application of a recommended flooring system called Stonkote, involving a primer (Stonkote HT) and hard-wearing epoxy resin coating (Stonkote HT4 Texture 2).
The system, manufactured by Stonhard, is specifically formulated to provide outstanding protection from fast-moving food production processes as well as long-term abrasion and corrosion resistance. Texture was added to provide better anti-slip properties.
The floor hardens to an attractive and durable gloss finish making it easy to clean and maintain.
An important part of the brief was to manage the install with minimum disruption to a busy food production site in the run up to Christmas, so the flooring was laid over a number of weekends and finished during the factory’s four-day seasonal shutdown.
Wayne Briers from Kemtile commented: “We are very pleased with the results. The flooring had to be delivered within a tight timescale with the least possible impact on production. It’s a specialist solution for food production environments which we are confident will meet all their needs – high performance and good looks, easy to maintain.”
Kemtile brings over 40 years’ commercial flooring expertise in the F & B sector to the job and, as part of the wider Stonhard group, operates in 50+ countries Europe-wide, providing single or multi-site solutions for fast-growing food and drink businesses.
Together they combine flooring audit and install knowhow with high quality epoxy resin product to serve food and beverage clients with a proven, single source solution to flooring needs. They regularly taking on full turnkey projects to maximise cost and operational efficiencies.
Please email info@kemtile.co.uk or contact us on 01925 763045 for more information.
