Food & Beverage Facilities

For high-volume production floors our first choice is the Heavy Tonnage Epoxy System. It is a two-layer system — a high-performance primer that outperforms most standalone epoxies, followed by a super-thick, chemically hardened topcoat — and it's the one we spec when floor failure or downtime is simply not an option. It's food safe, waterproof, and holds its finish through thousands of hot caustic washdowns and constant heavy forklift traffic.

For heavy-duty processing areas that don't see that level of abuse, our Military Industrial System delivers the durability at a lower price point. For break rooms, offices and walkways, our Commercial Epoxy Flooring System is the right fit. All three ship free as complete turnkey packages.

Three situations. First, when your building code, facility spec or SQF program calls for a thicker floor than a coating can provide — our Self-Leveling Urethane Cement goes on up to 1/4" thick and is approved by health departments and building codes nationwide. Second, when the floor sees thermal shock: steam cleaning, hot washdowns and flash-freezing cycles will eventually crack a rigid epoxy, while urethane cement is built to move with the slab. Third, when the concrete is beat up and you need a new wearing surface rather than a coating over damaged concrete.

It's applied with a cam/gauge rake and pin roller, broadcast with sand or aluminum oxide for texture, and topcoated with our commercial epoxy or the Novolac Acid Shield topcoat. No specialized equipment required.

Yes. Our food and beverage floor systems are USDA compliant and food safe, and our urethane cement is the standard for USDA, FDA and SQF-compliant processing facilities. What inspectors are checking for is a floor that is seamless, non-porous, chemical resistant and cleanable with no cracks or joints for bacteria to harbor in. A properly installed epoxy or urethane cement floor meets that; bare, painted or tiled concrete does not. Finish the wall joint with our epoxy cove base and the whole floor becomes one washable, monolithic surface.

Industrial-grade epoxy will; retail garage or water-based epoxies will not. The difference is film thickness and hardness. Thin coatings get cut by forklift tires turning under load and chip where tools and parts land. Our Heavy Tonnage System is engineered for exactly that — the primer locks into the concrete and the thick, chemically hardened topcoat takes the impact and abrasion instead of the slab, curing to a surface several orders of magnitude harder than a construction hard hat.

If the floor also takes frequent heavy impacs from steel-wheeled carts, dropped totes or heavy falling objects, step up to urethane cement for extreme impact resistance.

A true Novolac epoxy. Our Acid Shield systems are 100% Novolac — not a blend — and are built for sustained exposure at both splash and immersion levels to peracetic acid, phosphoric acid, sodium hydroxide, citric acid and the rest of the CIP and sanitizer lineup. They hold their integrity through thousands of hot caustic washdown cycles, which is why we spec them for kill floors, bottling lines, dairy processing and brewery production areas.

Before you order, check your specific chemicals and concentrations against our Acid Resistance Guide, which covers over 300 chemicals. If you're washing down with something unusual, send us the SDS and we'll confirm.

Two ways. Our fast-dry epoxy systems reach walk-on cure in hours rather than days, so a floor coated on a scheduled shutdown or over a weekend is back in service the same day or overnight. They carry the same chemical resistance, abrasion rating and food-safe compliance as our standard systems — only the cure schedule is accelerated.

For plants that can't take a whole floor offline at once, we plan a phased installation: coat one zone per turnaround while the rest of the line keeps running. Tell us your shutdown windows and we'll build the schedule around them.

It depends on whether you need maximum grip or flexibility. Our Industrial Textured Non-Slip Coating is extra heavy duty epoxy loaded with our proprietary micro aggregate blend — the highest traction level we offer, and it keeps its grip when the floor is wet or contaminated with oils and food byproducts. Choose it for washdown zones, dock areas and anywhere workers move quickly with loads.

ArmorTrak is our flexible epoxy embedded with dehydrated butyl rubber granules — unlike the low-grade rubber beads in standard rubberized coatings, ours don't wear out of the film. Choose it for floors that flex, see thermal movement, or where you want traction with a slightly softer feel underfoot.

Both the Heavy Tonnage System and the Urethane Cement System can use several types of nonslip additives in theor topcoats for maximum traction.

Your crew can install every system on this page. The epoxy systems are roller-applied and ship as turnkey packages with everything needed — no prior coating experience required. Urethane cement is applied with a cam/gauge rake and pin roller, both standard tools. Our coating experts support your crew seven days a week before, during and after the job. If you'd rather use a contractor, we'll supply the materials and support them directly.

Our direct-to-metal epoxy mastic. It is not a thin-film paint or primer — it applies super thick in a single coat and rounds out sharp corners and weld seams, which are exactly where corrosion starts. The result is a smooth, very durable monolithic surface that is easier to clean and inspect on process piping, tank exteriors, structural columns, conveyor frames, equipment supports and overhead steel.

It goes on with minimal prep and no sandblasting to white metal, and the same product is available for walls and ceilings — so you can coat every surface in the plant from one supplier with one support line.