The floor area within a dairy farm or processing plant is subjected to a long list of damaging and deteriorating factors, such as traffic from rubber boots, cattle and forklift trucks, heavy machinery, lactic acid spillages and intense cleaning routines. Despite these challenging conditions, the floor finish needs to provide a clean platform that keeps both food products and employees safe.
All of the above routine factors can cause irreparable damage to an insufficiently protected surface, which will not only affect the movement of people, vehicles and animals, but it could also cause a dangerous hygiene risk. Contaminants can easily accumulate within difficult-to-clean joints or grout lines in the floor, an eventuality that increases the possibility of spoiled products, sick cattle, damaged reputations and a failure to meet the expectations of regulatory bodies.