In chemistry, epoxy is a thermosetting epoxide polymer that cures (polymerizes and crosslinks) when mixed with a catalyzing agent or hardener. Most common epoxy resins are produced from a reaction between epichlorohydrin and bisphenol-A.

Currently the epoxy industry amounts to more than 7 billion dollars within North America and 20 billion world-wide.

Epoxies are known for their excellent adhesion, chemical and heat resistant characteristics, their good to excellent mechanical properties, and their very good electrical insulating properties.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Health Risk

The primary health risk associated with epoxy use is sensitization to the hardener, which over time can induce an allergic reaction. Long term exposure to epoxy may cause oestrogenic activity, alteration of male reproductive organs, early puberty induction, shortened duration of breast feeding, and pancreatic cancer. The people that are most at risk are those that install epoxy floors on a daily basis, not the people that stand and walk on them every day.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Chemical Processing

Chemical processing facilities require a floor that can be easily kept very clean, and one that will not absorb chemicals if spilt on it. Other applications where epoxy floors make a lot of sense are, drum storage areas, laboratories, bulk storage areas, and splash/spill zones.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Education

Because of all the abuse a floor in a typical school takes, it is very common to find epoxy floors in classrooms, hallways, cafeterias, kitchens, locker rooms, entryways, laboratories, nurses’ offices, media centers, mechanical rooms, and restrooms.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Electronics

In electronic manufacturing facilities, assembly areas, inspection labs, fabrication areas, scrubber bays, waffle slabs, air plenums, plating lines, and clean rooms all have epoxy floors.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Food And Beverage

Applications inside the food and beverage industry for epoxy floors include: bottling lines, mixing areas, bakeries, dairies, meat packing areas, packaging lines, coolers, splashy/spill zones, and rendering plants.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Manufacturing

Manufacturing applications that commonly use epoxy floors include: assembly lines, traffic aisles, loading docks, machine shops, control rooms, battery rooms, chemical storage areas, locker/shower rooms and in-plant cafeterias.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Pharmaceutical

The extreme requirement for cleanliness inside corridors, processing areas, wash down areas, research labs, clean rooms, sterile areas, chemical storage areas, and shower rooms, make it mandatory that epoxy floors be required.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Public Spaces

Epoxy floors are ideal for public spaces because they can be cleaned very quickly and look great over many years of traffic. Museums, airports, hospitals, stadiums, fitness centers, rehab facilities, and welcome centers, all use epoxy floors.

Epoxy Flooring Products – Retail Environments

Supermarkets, restaurants, cafeterias, shopping malls, auto dealerships, museums, lobbies, and concourses use epoxy floors.

Epoxy Flooring Products - Transportation

Within this industry, traffic aisles, paint spray areas, plant lines, plating lines and filling station all use epoxy floors.