Celebrate the New Year with 2011 Pricing

It’s 2012 and change is in the air.  Everywhere, except when it comes to Florock pricing!  After taking inventory this week, Florock will reopen with the 2011 Price List intact for the coming year.

There’s talk of inflation, and industrial materials are certainly no exception.  So what’s Florock doing right?

“We try to maintain great relationships with our suppliers,” says Walter Szczerski, Florock Purchasing Manager. “We’re constantly negotiating the best deal and we take control of costs wherever possible.”

Buying in bulk, utilizing early payment discounts, maintaining carefully vetted backups for all suppliers, and assuming responsibility for inbound freight… It’s a delicate balancing act that pays off.

“It also helps to work closely with the Warehouse and Production Departments.  Timing is everything in this business,” explains Szczerski, who can be seen daily walking the raw material and finished goods warehouses, as well as the Florock factory floor.

The end result?  Florock Industrial Flooring prices remain competitive across the marketplace – at 2011 levels.

Need more details?  We’d love to hear from you!  Call us at 1-800-FLOROCK (356-7625) or email us.

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by Sophia on January 3, 2012  •  Permalink
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New Time Saving Architects’ Resource

When it comes to resinous flooring, Florock.net’s recently launched Architect Center offers specifying professionals the convenience of one-stop shopping.  Here are a few of the new features:

-  AIA Online Continuing Education: The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Continuing Education (CE) Program requires Architect members to earn a specific number of Learning Units (LU’s) each year.* As part of this program, material manufacturers have traditionally conducted lunchtime presentations at individual architectural firms. When the AIA recently broadened the parameters to include distance learning, Florock jumped at the chance to develop an internet-based CE course.

The new online course, “Resinous Flooring – Everything You Need to Know, Without Reading the Manual”, is AIA Approved.  It enables AIA members and non-members to earn a Certificate of Completion by passing a multiple choice test at the end of the one hour presentation.

In addition, AIA members can earn 1 Learning Unit in Health Safety & Welfare, as well as in Sustainable Design (1 LU/HSW/SD).*  The AIA Registered CE Course is free of charge and is conveniently available 24/7 – no appointment necessary!

-  Interactive Product Finder:  This handy tool helps specifiers hone in quickly on the right industrial flooring for their application.  By clicking on one of the industries or products listed, viewers are linked directly to a page with the additional information they’re looking for.

-  Detail Drawings: In addition to 3-part architectural flooring specs, downloadable detail drawings are now available via the “View Our Specifications” page.

- LEED’s: Click on this link to learn how Florock products can contribute to U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) LEED points.

-  Colors: At the bottom of the Architect Center page is the new “See Our Colors” feature, where designers can connect to the Florock Color Chart, plus the decorative FloroQuartz and FloroChip Blend Selections, all from one location.

We hope you’ll find the new Architect Center useful.  Please let us know what you think.

Wishing Everyone Happy Holidays and a Healthy & Prosperous New Year!

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*AIA architect members are required to complete 18 learning unit (LU) hours of continuing education per year for membership renewal.  Of those 18 LU hours, at least 8 hours must be on Health, Safety, and Welfare (HSW) topics. Of those 8 HSW hours, at least 4 hours must be on topics relating to sustainable design (SD).

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by Sophia on December 22, 2011  •  Permalink
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It’s Cold! Do You Know Where Your Epoxy’s Been?

It’s a frosty cold 29° F outside and a toasty 70° F inside the facility, where your crew is preparing to install epoxy flooring.  You’ve shot-blasted the concrete floor substrate and completed proper concrete crack repair.  The FloroGel concrete refinishing patch material is cured dry enough to coat.  Aaah… Finally, a day that seems to be going according to schedule!

So you head for the area where your Floropoxy epoxy paint components were stored — and they’re missing.

“Uh, yeah, Bob needed the space last night, so he moved your stuff.”  The employee points to your pallets, now next to the open dock door, the most exposed spot in the plant.  You’re suddenly dealing with installation of cold epoxy floor coating material.  What to do?

Luckily, your Florock Rep advised you well:  You always stock up on U-12 Epoxy Accelerator, before winter temperatures hit.  Adding up to 4 ounces of U-12 Accelerator per gallon of Florock 100% solids epoxy coating (depending on temperatures and cure times) will help ensure that the prime coat cures properly.

If the liquids are warm enough by tomorrow, you can forego the Accelerator for the remainder of the project.  And, since U-12 will amber topcoats, it’s best not to add it to the finish coat.

You’ll make sure your “stuff” stays cozy and warm tonight.  In the meantime, you can relax – you’re back on schedule!

Need more cold weather industrial flooring ideas?  Ask about FloroCryl and FloroSpartic concrete flooring, as well as U-12 Epoxy Accelerator.  Simply email or call us at 1-800-FLOROCK (356-7625).

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by Sophia on December 7, 2011  •  Permalink
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Top 5 Tips for Commercial Kitchen Floors

Thanksgiving is “high traffic season” for commercial kitchen floors.  Check out the Top 5 Tips for restaurant and food plant floors:

  1. Install seamless industrial flooring with an integral cove base to ensure maximum sanitation. Seams and cracks provide hiding places for germs, regardless of how well you clean. 
  2. Be sure your floor coating has the right level of skid-resistance for your needs. Slip-and-fall hazards are a serious danger on wet, oily commercial kitchen flooring.  Remember, it’s important to balance the amount of slip-deterring “profile” with cleanability.  If in doubt, ask your industrial flooring contractor to install a test patch for you to try.
  3. For long-lasting flooring, resurface concrete with a cementitious urethane, like FloroCrete SL, designed to withstand exposure to high temperature acids. Typical epoxy paint and commercial vinyl flooring breaks down quickly around fry lanes, broilers and ovens, due to constant exposure to hot oil and grease.  Having to frequently replace less-than-optimal concrete flooring is both inconvenient and expensive.
  4. For sub-freezers and meat lockers, go with proven FloroCrete HR, which maintains its high performance integrity, even under the thermal shock of regular steam cleaning. These extreme conditions destroy standard food facility flooring.
  5. Installation of most concrete resurfacing products requires a dry slab for best results. That gets tricky in damp food prep areas with consistently high relative humidity.  Urethane concrete like FloroCrete has better tolerance for damp substrates than conventional concrete floor coverings – just another reason why it’s the number one flooring choice for food facilities.

New Hybrid Floors combine the best of all worlds!  Ask about decorative toppings like FloroChip and FloroQuartz for your FloroCrete Industrial Floors – simply email or call us at 1-800-FLOROCK (356-7625).

A Happy, Safe and Healthy Thanksgiving to All!

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by Sophia on November 22, 2011  •  Permalink
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Holiday Travel Season for Concrete Floors

With the holiday travel season near at hand, vehicle maintenance technicians everywhere are changing oil, greasing gears, topping off fluids and inevitably, spilling dangerous chemicals onto concrete floors.  If not contained, these substances can leach through porous slabs, contaminating surrounding soil and groundwater.

The effective, eco-friendly solution?  Epoxy flooring topped with a two-component Chemical Resistant Urethane (CRU), such as Florothane CR.

Very low V.O.C. and low emissions, ultra high performance Florothane CR is among the elite floor coating products “Approved by the U.S. Military for Use in Air Hangar and Vehicle Maintenance Facilities”.   Resistant to fuels, oil, solvents and even hot tire staining, this cement floor paint is specifically designed to protect concrete flooring from degradation, while safeguarding the surrounding environment.

An added bonus for mechanics everywhere – glossy clear and colored Florothane CR reflects overhead lighting, enhancing visibility under large aircraft and chassis.  Customizable skid-resistance, plus abrasion-resistant safety markings, make this the ideal floor painting finish coat for fleet repair facilities.

Whether via planes, trains and automobiles, buses or trucks… We wish you well-maintained transport and safe holiday travels!

Need answers regarding industrial flooring?  Please email us or call us at 1-800-FLOROCK (356-7625).

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by Sophia on November 18, 2011  •  Permalink
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Early Sunsets Mean Quick Cure Industrial Flooring

It’s SHOCKING to see the sun set so early outside our Chicago industrial flooring headquarters!  Like many parts of the world, we recently experienced our semi-annual time change, “falling back” one hour, from Daylight Saving to Standard Time.

Suddenly, there’s a need to “speed things along” during the work day, in order to glimpse a bit of daylight before heading home.  Simultaneously, late autumn brings cooler concrete floor slab and air temperatures to many parts of the country.

Hmmm, time pressure and temperature constraints… sounds like quick-curing floor paint season!

Options range from Floropoxy System 4900 high speed epoxy coating, to even faster curing FloroCryl Methyl Methacrylate (MMA) commercial flooring.   Depending upon application, heavy-duty FloroCrete Urethane Concrete floor coverings or FloroSpartic Polyaspartic low odor concrete resurfacing may be right for you.  Choose decorative concrete, non slip flooring, an industrial floor coating, or a combination of all three.  High performance and great aesthetics do go together!

Ready for some “speedy” advice?  Simply email us, or call us at 1-800-FLOROCK (356-7625).  Our local professionals are available nationwide.

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