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A rapid-cure, high-performance polyurethane resin screed from Altro can take heavy foot traffic only five hours after installation, reducing downtime.

Fast-curing Altrocrete PU HD is suitable for industrial applications where downtime is at a premium, in particular the pharmaceutical and food and drink industries, with the latter also benefiting from the product's resistance to taint.

Altro says Altrocrete PU HD offers outstanding wear and slip resistance, protection against chemical attack, and the ability to withstand impact and abrasion.

PU HD remains stable at temperatures between –40 degrees C and 100 degrees C. It can also cope with thermal shock, such as hot spillages and steam cleaning, when installed to a depth of 9mm.
Enquiry number 205

Montage's magic carpet
A new range of heavy fibre-bonded carpets and tiles from Heckmondwike challenges tufted carpet. The Montage range has a cream-coloured scrim backing, which is pushed through to the surface in tufts, giving the look of a quality tufted carpet at a much lower price.
Enquiry number 210

Cover It, for less
A cheap covering from Amipak that protects all types of flooring during building and decorating work, Cover It is a 960mm by 1220mm sheet of non-absorbent cardboard coated with polythene.

Taping sheets of Cover It together forms a waterproof barrier that is non-slip and easy to handle and trim. Sheets can be wiped clean and reused.
Enquiry number 211

Platinum support
Platinum floorshield, a rigid insulation panel for use with ground-supported and suspended concrete floors, contains tiny pieces of graphite that scatter and absorb radiated heat, improving thermal performance by 15%-20% for the same thickness of insulation. The 2400mm by 1200mm silvery grey sheets come in thicknesses from 30mm to 80mm in 10mm increments.
Enquiry number 212

Readyfloor when you are
RMC Concrete Floors has produced a comprehensive guide to its beam and block flooring system. Readyfloor beams come in 155mm and 225mm depths with standard blocks providing the infill. The brochure contains technical data and load span tables so construction teams can design a suspended floor that meets the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Regulations.
Enquiry number 213

No slip, no trip with Matrix
Catalogue equipment supplier Key Industrial has introduced Safestep Matrix anti-slip flooring. The matrix design of the system makes it easy to cut panels quickly on site to fit a particular layout.

The panel substrate is made of glass reinforced plastic, coated with resin.
Enquiry number 214

Fibre in your concrete diet
Grace Construction Products has unveiled Strux 90/40 fibre reinforcement, designed to replace welded wire, light rebar and steel fibres.

The company says Strux 90/40 is the first synthetic fibre to give tight control over cracking and shrinking. With a greater volume of fibres than there is metal in steel-reinforced concrete, it prevents cracking, beefs up impact/fatigue resistance - and won't give workers cuts.
Enquiry number 206

Image is everything
TILEMAKER AMtico has added seven photo realistic designs to its Naturals range. The images on the tiles have been taken from Victorian pews and floors, hand-crafted furniture, quarried slate and limestones.

Amtico has also launched a new collection of Century tiles, combining rich texture with irridescence. An alternative to rubber flooring, the new tiles come in six muted shades.
Enquiry number 207

Image is everything
TILEMAKER AMtico has added seven photo realistic designs to its Naturals range. The images on the tiles have been taken from Victorian pews and floors, hand-crafted furniture, quarried slate and limestones.

Amtico has also launched a new collection of Century tiles, combining rich texture with irridescence. An alternative to rubber flooring, the new tiles come in six muted shades.
Enquiry number 207

For a fast fix in all weathers...
WeatherDek2 flooring is now available in a fast-fix form. WeatherDek2 Fast-Fix, from Puhos Board, combines engineered wood floor beams with film-protected tongue-and-groove chipboard panels to offer temporary weather protection for floors during construction. The heavy-duty surface film peels off easily when construction is complete.

The fast-fix element of the system comes through use of a gun-applied high-performance adhesive, which glues the panels and drastically reduces the need for nailing.

At first-floor level and above, the weather-protected platform floor allows other trades to work safely beneath a roof under construction. This can save up to three days per unit and provides a pristine floor finish on completion.
Enquiry number 209

Fashion floors
As in fashion, furnishings and the visual arts, so it is with floors: this season, it's stripes, or so Interface Europe reckons. The carpet tilemaker has added two new stripy designs (Happening and Amplified) and one spotty (Psychedelic) to its Chenille Warp range. The new tiles can be used alone or with existing Chenille Warp designs to create rug effects or break up large areas with bold colours and strong patterns. Chenille Warp can be installed with a quarter turn, and in brick or parquet patterns.
Enquiry number 215

High-powered solution for static electricity
Dissipating static electricity is a high priority for areas that will hold a lot of electrical equipment, such as computer and equipment rooms. To deal with such high concentrations, Kingspan has launched its Edge-Banded series of raised access floors.

Edge-Banded static-control floors have a vinyl, high-pressure laminate or rubber surface laminated to a standard Kingspan RG steel-encapsulated woodcore floor panel. It is finished with a protective edge-band trim.

Available grades include light, medium and heavy, all of which will fit standard Kingspan pedestals. Gravity-lay installation simplifies panel lifting and replacement for access to underfloor services. Precise dimensions and positioning features give accurate gridding.

This month Kingspan also launches a best-practice design and specification guide for raised access floors, including stage by stage specification of the new BS EN 12825 standard.
Enquiry number 217

Big lift for subsidence
A fast fix for subsidence - and one that is much cheaper than ripping a floor out to add more hardcore - is to use the services of Uretek to deep-inject a polymer resin into the ground beneath the foundations. The resin expands as it enters the soil and lifts the floor slabs above it. The amount of lift is easily controllable because expansion takes place within seconds. Uretek has now launched Geoplus, which boosts the expansion force.
Enquiry number 218

Well'ard Ardex
Ardex has created a fast-track surface damp proof membrane to provide a system solution with its established latex and water-based levelling compounds. Ardex DPM is a solvent-free, two-coat membrane that bonds to substrates including very damp concrete and screeds.

The first coat of Ardex DPM is red and the second green to help users control the thickness. The red coat is walkable in six hours. Once the initial coat has had eight hours to dry, the green coat can be applied.
Enquiry number 219