Ucrete By BASF: A Reliable Partner For Your Industrial Kitchen Floor

Ucrete uses a unique polyurethane resin technology that gives floors exceptional resistance to aggressive chemicals, extreme mechanical and thermal shock, providing a long-term, durable flooring solution.

Ucrete By Basf

Ucrete provides applications for  Industrial Kitchen Floor. They offer a uniform flooring system that creates a safe and attractive working environment. The Ucrete surfaces retain their integrity at temperatures of up to 130°C and have been proven to meet the toughest requirements related to hygiene and cleanliness, where a long lasting robust floor is crucial. It is available in wide range of slip resistant profiles.

Ucrete is the original cementitious urethane technology designed for seamless floor overlays and resurfacing. It has been the solution to challenging industrial flooring problems around the world for 30+ years.

Ucrete flooring offers a range of surface profile and performance specifications. Engineered as a superior alternative to acid brick, quarry tile, and coatings, Ucrete is well-known for resistance to any physical abuse, bacteria growth, thermal shock and a wide range of destructive chemicals.

Ucrete heavy-duty polyurethane systems are unique as they are specifically formulated to meet the demands of existing and new projects. A range of resin rich floor systems that are moisture tolerant are ideally suitable in the industrial environments. It is solvent free and fully serviceable at high temperature with 9mm thickness. Ucrete industrial flooring is available in a range of standard systems in colored finishes which include smooth, textured, terrazzo surfaces and anti static grades.

Different products based on Ucrete by BASF are:

• Ucrete HP/F
• Ucrete DP Systems
• Ucrete HP/Q
• Ucrete IF
• Ucrete MF
• Ucrete RG
• Ucrete UD200

The toughness and durability in extreme industrial environments have earned Ucrete its reputation as a long lasting floor with no other match. EP Floors is a leading manufacturer and implementation expert of industrial seamless epoxy flooring and polyurethane floors.

All You Need to Know about Industrial Kitchen Flooring

EP Floors

If someone checks the history of protecting or coating the concrete floors for last several years, that person will notice that it has come a long way. The main purpose of coating the slab is to protect it from various abuses. The coating also helps aesthetics, help in making the floor anti-skid and can prevent it from wear and tear.

Industrial kitchen flooring are constantly suffering from intense mechanical abuse, chemical attack, use of hot water, thermal shocks, etc. and they need special treatment. Along with the industry challenges, there are other challenges related to compliance, quality guidelines mandated by Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), SFQ 2000 (This is a quality management system used to verify the level of implementation of a specific food safety and quality plan by a food manufacturer/supplier), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved flooring, Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) quality system, etc.

Kitchen Flooring

Cementitious urethane floor coating can be applied over concrete, brick or tile. This material withstands moisture and cool temperature & damp concrete surfaces in food plants. There are various ways of coating the slab or industrial floor. Polyurethane (PU) which is also commonly known as Urethane is a primary floor coating material. Urethane Concrete Floor Coating has surpassed epoxy flooring due to various reasons like enhanced resistance to impact and abuse from dropped pots, steel parts and utensils in industrial kitchens and food plants. They handle repetitive scraping and scratching better than epoxy, acrylic, and competitive systems. They are extremely beneficial in plant areas where steel wheels are used, such as bakeries. Urethane mortar floors, when used with an integral cove base, may serve as waterproof flooring.

It will be interesting to know that the original brand of urethane mortar floor is the oldest trowel applied urethane, and has been around for almost forty years.