Flexicon screw the flaws out of flooring

摘要

Flooring specialists, MBT Degussa, have a well-earned reputation as one of the world leaders in the manufacture of specialists compounds for the preparation and application of indoor, industrial flooring, industry applications are endless (where there's a floor -there's MBT) and the finished products can be seen at airports, hospitals, theatres, factories, public arenas and so on. The "recipes" or compounds are almost as many and varied as the applications they are designed for, enabling countless grades and styles of finished surfaces that may be, just by example, chemically resistant or non-slip, shiny or matt, coloured or neutral, textured or smooth, and so on. These finished compounds are despatched from the Redditch based manufacturing facility, having been weighed and bagged into an assortment of bag sizes up to 25 kg for practical handling on site while also conforming to the health and safety regulations. They are then delivered to professional applicators that mix, prepare and apply the floor finishes in-situ. A main element of every compound leaving the factory is a specialist type of sand of two grades, fine and medium, the performance characteristics of which include "free-flowing". Ironically, this was a performance advantage they could well do without -or so they thought.