Sherwin-Williams has formulated a range of resin flooring and maintenance cleaning products using natural and ecologically sound materials which contain no caustic alkalis, harmful solvents or aggressive biocides. They are safe in use and have a superior environmental profile. Selecting the correct cleaning materials for your flooring can substantially help to break down the soiling and lift it from the floor surface, provided it is applied correctly and allowed to work on the surface for a defined period before being washed away.


Attack resistant


Great care must also be taken to ensure the correct flooring system is chosen with regards to the cleaning chemicals and residual sugars, particularly in the food and beverage industry. Sugars and acids can act very corrosively with epoxy flooring. Similarly, factories which undertake a Clean-In-Place regime, which involves cleaning interior equipment and fittings with corrosive acids and sodas and then washing them away with hot water, can find it has a potentially fatal effect on epoxy flooring systems.


In these scenarios, the FasTop flooring range by Sherwin- Williams, including FasTop RS69 and FasTop TG69, provides the best performance in terms of chemical resistance, hygiene, cleanability and slip resistance.


The hygiene benefits


FasTop, the HACCP-certified, food-safe resin flooring polyurethane screed range from Sherwin-Williams, offers considerable (and in some cases unique) benefits to food and drink manufacturers. The backbone of its polymer chemistry includes natural resins extracted from plant sources, as well as synthetic resins with a Campden BRI certification for non-taint properties and HACCP’s food safety validation.


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Recently, the FasTop range became available in a new and innovative packaging concept where the resin components are supplied to a site in pouches instead of buckets, contributing to a much cleaner job site and reducing the amount of waste generated in the installation phase. The pouches use less than one-fifth of the weight of plastic used for plastic buckets with this product.


As a result, twice as much product can now be delivered on each pallet, with empty pouches taking up 40 times less space compared to used buckets. This means reduced waste from packaging, which makes waste disposal more economical.


Such sustainability and safety enablers add to a combination of other features that positively impact both installation and service phases of its lifecycle. The industry- leading range has been formulated to allow installation in a single application which cures in a matter of hours using the above-mentioned innovative and sustainable cementitious urethane resin technology.


The long-term protection it provides is anchored in its self-sealing, self-levelling and slip-resistant properties with tolerance to steam cleaning, boiling water and process liquids up to 120°C, all the way down to -40°C for freezer temperatures.


Provided with a range of optional primers and topcoats that further enhance the ability to adapt the systems to different technical and aesthetic demands, FasTop solutions are ideal for use in a wide range of industries, from food and beverage preparation, processing and handling premises to pharmaceutical and chemical plant processing and heavy- duty plant and traffic areas.


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