Flooring solutions for cold storage facilities

Cold storage floor is a complex system that requires many high requirements. Cold storage floors are required to withstand freezing temperatures with the ability to prevent weakness, cracking, and maintaining floor hygiene. In addition, the floor must also resistant to thermal shock, strong impact from machinery and tools, movement, anti-slippery and chemical resistance. Cold storage demand is especially growing rapidly in the Asian regions. The changing demand comes from many reasons such as the rise of the online food and beverage industry, the epidemic. This shortage can quickly lead to other problems such as poor quality, unsatisfactory cold storage construction, causing a waste of money. Therefore, the current urgent requirement is to complete a standard cold storage with a long service life. In particular, the floor is the place that should be noticed first.

What is cold storage

Cold storage refers to a large area, usually used to store products from fresh foods, pharmaceuticals… mainly at very low temperatures below freezing to help prolong shelf life of the product. Cold storage is very necessary for many industries, especially the business of perishable and easily decomposable products, especially fresh food, which when stored at high temperature will help ensure the product quality freshness, quality and shelf life. Cold rooms, cold storage are often being construct in supermarkets, kitchens, canteens, restaurants, hotels, laboratories, hospitals, places where it is necessary to store products with a short shelf life and need to be preserved. at cold temperature to ensure product quality.

Cold storage requirements

Unlike other areas, food cold storage and pharmaceutical cold room require certain specifications because this space needs to meet food safety and health standards, such as: – Resistant to cold temperatures and below freezing, cold storage floors must withstand freezing temperatures without damaging, weakening or cracking the floor. -Withstand thermal shock and sudden temperature changes in the base, which depends largely on the chemical composition of the coating and the thickness of the coating. The higher the temperature difference, the higher the thickness should be. -Withstand heavy loads, strong impact resistance, floors that will be subjected to a lot of impact from forklift trucks, or other equipment that requires the strength and durability of the coating. – Easy to clean – Are able to protect the floor from acid and chemicals – Slip resistant – Abrasion resistant – Joint-free, the best floor finish is joint-free because joints are the main weaknesses of the floor, such as cracking, and where bacteria and dirt cling. The cold storage floor needs to ensure these requirements, to avoid cracking that affects the operation of the unit. Not only that, the floors of different units will have different requirements such as: floors of dairy factories, laboratories, supermarkets, pharmaceuticals, service industries … The floor must be durable and resistant  temperature and temperature variation in the facility. The accompanying factors to evaluate the quality of the floor are fast construction time, high performance, anti-static.

PU flooring for cold storage

PU provides a seamless, hard, strong, high-load-bearing floor surface, specially developed to withstand temperature changes specifically for cold storage environments. As for the other floor systems, there will often be cracks, breakage, peeling in pieces due to the poor thermal shock resistance of the material. Therefore, PU provides an elastic floor surface with compatible elasticity, suitable for cold room environment, cold storage.

Infloor provide Stonhard’s PU flooring solutions

Stonhard’s PU flooring system offers thermal shock resistance, and strong chemical resistance and durability are the best finishing solutions to protect cold storage concrete surfaces. Stonhard’s PU flooring system comes in a variety of colors to suit the aesthetic needs of the facility. PU floor system is easy to clean, resistant to common chemicals, has high durability, is the optimal choice for cold storage floor of any project. Infloor with many years of experience in the construction and distribution of Stonhard floors will provide the optimal cold storage floor protection solution for production and business facilities in Vietnam.