Industrial and Commercial-Grade Epoxy Floors.
Protect concrete floors with the right coating technologies for withstanding forklift traffic, chemical spills, and other destructive forces.
Protect concrete floors with the right coating technologies for withstanding forklift traffic, chemical spills, and other destructive forces.
For long-wearing industrial and commercial floors, epoxy coatings applied by experienced contractors like Painters USA are the go-to solution. We get the job done right with flooring expertise and superior communication and project management processes.
We know that flooring projects are disruptive, which is why our seasoned teams are capable of working efficiently for a fast return to service. Enterprises like Nufarm and Cardinal Glass Industries trust us to get in and out as quickly as possible.
Common problems solved or mitigated with epoxy flooring
With regular audits and inspections, no food company can afford to be non-compliant with SQF and other regulations. Professional epoxy flooring delivers superior food grade protection from biological, chemical, and physical hazards.
If your production processes involve regular use of solvents, acids, and other chemicals, you understand the corrosive force these materials have on concrete surfaces. Specialized epoxy coating systems offer excellent protection for preserving structural integrity.
Forklifts wreak havoc on concrete flooring in warehouses, distribution centers, and manufacturing facilities. On the flip side, control joints and other seams can cause major damage to forklifts! Reduce and prevent these physical hazards with seamless epoxy flooring systems.
If slips and falls are a concern, different textures and anti-slip additives can be incorporated into the epoxy floor system, plus epoxy is a durable option for floor striping and markings to safely guide traffic and workflow.
Flooring maintenance is a disruptive process, best contained with fast return to service and solutions that are long-lasting. Painters USA delivers both with our epoxy floor system expertise and many years of projects delivered on-time.
Aesthetics have become very important in modern industrial facilities, especially in large corporations with internal standards for all their locations. Painters USA’s epoxy flooring services will deliver a bright, pleasant look to your facility!
Happy epoxy flooring customers
Happy epoxy flooring customers
Happy epoxy flooring customers
Happy epoxy flooring customers
Happy epoxy flooring customers
Epoxy flooring services across the company's manufacturing and warehousing facilities.
Painters USA helps this global agricultural company meet their compliance needs for food safety, sanitation, and uniform corporate standards for each facility. Providing abrasive blasting, concrete repair, line striping, tank coatings and other facility maintenance services.
Project Highlights
Proper repair and preparation of the concrete slab ensured a smooth, seamless surface and durable results, while protecting the concrete substrate.
Epoxy floor coating with a polyurethane topcoat was chosen for chemical resistance, scratch resistance, gloss retention, yellowing resistance, easier cleaning, and long-lasting performance.
We met the company’s deadlines by working weekends and including proper curing time in the project plan to allow them to return to normal operations on Monday morning.
Epoxy floor coating and line-striping in manufacturing facility
This manufacturer of forklifts and material handling solutions relies on Painters USA to keep their facilities safe for workers and aesthetically appealing for regular customer visits.
Highlights from the project at Logisnext
Tired of results that lasted only a few short years, the company chose Painters USA for the long-lasting results of our epoxy coating expertise.
Safety aisles, work sections, and other areas were delineated with color-coded solutions to convey proper space utilization and endure normal wear and tear.
Painters USA delivered an extremely hard, long-wearing epoxy coating formulation that was incorporated during field mixing for durability and performance.
With Painters USA, the company was able to reduce vendors onsite for improved safety, consistency, accountability, and vendor management ease.
Multiple projects for epoxy flooring, interior/exterior painting, and concrete repair and polishing
As one of the largest commercial property maintenance companies in the Midwest, their clients encompass a range of industries and facilities, a good fit for Painters USA’s diverse industry experience.
Highlights from the project at McNelly
With extensive food industry experience, Painters USA ensures that all of the company’s food industry clients maintain proper food-grade facilities.
Painters USA offers superior project planning and management experience to enable the company to complete maintenance work as quickly as possible.
Epoxy coatings with chemical resistance properties protect facility floors and walls from issues like battery chemical spills in forklift charging areas.
Protecting concrete wall panels and floor slabs from chemical spillage.
Founded in 1963, International Extrusion specializes in metal fabrication, extrusion and finishing for high tolerance solid or hollow shapes using chemicals that are damaging to concrete.
Highlights from the project at IEC
An ounce of prevention goes a long way in protecting concrete surfaces from acids, solvents, and other chemicals used in manufacturing facilities.
Painters USA’s experience in secondary containment systems controls hazardous spills and discharges for enhanced safety.
Our safety team assesses facilities with confined spaces like secondary containment systems to propose the best way to perform the work as quickly and safely as possible.
With use of time-saving processes, focus on safety, good scope of work, regular communication, and strong project management, Painters USA meets deadlines.
Epoxy flooring for glass manufacturing plant in Illinois
This manufacturer of glass and glazing products for the architectural and automotive industries first hired Painters USA in 2014 for safe, durable epoxy flooring solutions.
Highlights from the project at Pilkington
With roots going back about 100 years ago, Painters USA is proud to work in this company’s manufacturing plant in north-central Illinois.
Safety is a top concern in glass manufacturing, so Painters USA delivers epoxy flooring systems that ensure a smooth, durable surface for forklifts transporting sheets of plate glass.
Shattered glass is highly destructive when ground into concrete floors, a physical hazard that is minimized with specialized epoxy coating technology.
As a Japanese-owned glass-manufacturing company, Pilkington’s North American facilities must comply with the uniform standards of the parent company.
Questions you should be asking
In order to choose and install the best industrial flooring solutions for you facility, a number of different factors are involved, including:
- Traffic patterns and volume (foot and equipment)
- Condition of floor substrate (e.g., cracks or chips, evenness)
- Environmental factors like heat, thermal shock, humidity and chemical exposure
- Regulatory compliance (e.g., food safety, workplace safety, quality standards)
- Appearance and aesthetics
- Typical operational schedules
- Unique traits that apply to your business or facility
Epoxies and polyurethanes are both thermosetting polymers, made by irreversibly hardening a soft solid or viscous liquid by heat or mixing with a catalyst. Epoxies and polyurethanes actually work well together. The most durable coating systems usually consist of an epoxy primer, an epoxy build-coat, and a polyurethane topcoat. Epoxy is preferred for priming concrete substrates and providing build or thickness to cover small blemishes or cracks. Polyurethanes provide enhanced performance and aesthetical characteristics, such as UV stability to protect from yellowing, enhanced chemical resistance, enhanced abrasion resistance, and more finish options for appearance.
Curing and setting times vary. While most experts agree that epoxy is safe to walk on after about 25 hours, epoxy cure times can range from a low of 12-18 hours to 36-72 hours for a return to normal operational traffic. It takes about a week for most epoxies to reach full chemical cure. For results that are long-lasting and most durable, it’s important to discuss your return to service needs, as rushing the curing process can lead to performance issues.
In epoxy coatings and other paints and coatings, a mil is defined as a thousandth of an inch, as based on the English or Imperial System used in the United States. A thickness of 20 mils means the coating is 20/1000 inches thick. Some people think mils refers to millimeters (mm), which is 1/1000th of a meter in the Metric System. When discussing paint and coating, however, remember that a mil is 1/1000th of an inch.
Epoxy coating thickness depends on the specific coating product, the application method, the condition of the substrate, performance demands and budgetary needs. It could range from a few mils to as thick as 40-50 mils. Thicker coatings are generally more expensive and time-consuming.
When the right coatings are specified and all steps of the installation process—substrate repairs and surface prep, coating application, cure time—are done correctly by experienced industrial floor coating professionals, epoxy floor coatings can last well over ten years of normal operations, with proper cleaning and maintenance.
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Industrial and Commercial-Grade Epoxy Floors.
Reduce wear and tear from machines like forklifts with the latest coatings in the industry. We’re dedicated to meeting your return-to-service deadlines, without sacrificing safety or performance.
Reduce wear and tear from machines like forklifts with the latest coatings in the industry. We’re dedicated to meeting your return-to-service deadlines, without sacrificing safety or performance.
