THE FLOOR MEET STRINGENT DEMANDS FROM THE FOOD BUSINESS

FOOD ENVIRONMENTS: Authorities and consumers alike make ever increasing demands on the environment in which food is produced. Ulfcar specialises in floors which pass the toughest tests.

On the face of it, the food industry and sand from the Sahara don’t seem to have much in common. Until you consider the following recipe: Take a load of sharp edged desert sand, dye the grains with the right colours, add some special chemicals and mix with acrylate and water. Then pour it over a factory floor where foods are produced. You now have a durable floor which meets all the demands of the food industry authorities, manufacturers and employees.

     “The food industry has extremely strict regulations concerning factory buildings, not least regarding surfaces and floors. They must be durable, easy to clean and impermeable to liquids, including around pipe conduits, and from a safety point of view they must be non-slip. Industrial floors from Ulfcar meet all these demands and that explains why there are more than 30 million square metres of Ulfcar floors all over the world.”

Resistant
So says director Niels Vangsted, Ulfcar International. Over recent years the company has built a flourishing business as a supplier for the food industry and related business sectors. Ulfcar has just gained Wall Mart in Aus-tralia as one of its largest customers and will supply floors for up to 800 supermarkets.

     Some of Ulfcar’s most recent deliveries are to a number of pineapple factories in Thailand. Ulfcar’s Polycrete floors have turned out to be unequalled for this type of production since the composition of materials is resistant to the mixture of sugar and citric acid which otherwise quickly destroy all other types of floor.

Keep It Simple
One of Ulfcar’s largest growth areas is Russia. The company has supplied floors to a number of large supermarket chains. Now a major paper factory has had more than 300,000 m2 of floors applied, and several other supermarket chains and the entire Russian brewing sector have become customers.

     Besides acknowledging the quality of the floors, the choice is also due to the application system that Ulfcar has developed. The floors, which more or less are self levelling, can be applied by non-skilled workers while still ensuring consistent quality. Applying the floors is a rapid procedure and they are ready for use just a couple of hours later.

     “The system has been worked out according to the KIS model – Keep It Simple. We deliver all the components for the finished floor in customised packages. Just mix the components according to the instructions and you can’t go wrong. It also means that we are able to deliver floors all over the world with a five year guarantee.“