Heavy-duty flooring

Cementitious Polyurethane Flooring

For facilities where heat, chemicals and heavy use meet.

In processing and production environments, a floor must handle more than traffic. Hot water, temperature changes, spills, cleaning chemicals and repeated impact may all occur in the same working area.

Cementitious polyurethane, also known as urethane cement, combines polyurethane resin, cement and selected aggregates in a purpose-designed flooring system. It is a different type of construction from a thin polyurethane finish coat applied over epoxy.

East Coast Coatings provides cementitious polyurethane flooring for facilities that need a system selected around these combined operating demands.

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Food-processing facility with hygienic grey cementitious polyurethane flooring — Cementitious polyurethane flooring in a food-processing facility

Built around the exposure

The appropriate system depends on the temperatures involved, the frequency of washdowns, the chemicals present and the type of traffic. Available constructions include broadcast finishes and trowel-applied systems, with textures selected for the working conditions.

Thickness is particularly important. A system suitable for ordinary wet service is not automatically suitable for steam cleaning or severe thermal shock. Those requirements must be checked against the specific product and installed thickness.

Food-processing production area with a seamless grey cementitious polyurethane floor — Cementitious polyurethane flooring in a food-processing production area

Details matter as much as the main floor

Drains, perimeter terminations, cove bases and transitions are part of the flooring design. Where required by the manufacturer, anchoring grooves help secure exposed edges against mechanical and thermal stresses. Existing movement joints must be properly accommodated rather than simply covered over.

Some urethane-cement products also tolerate higher substrate moisture than conventional coatings. That does not remove the need to assess the slab or investigate rising moisture and active water.

Stainless-steel processing tanks above a seamless grey cementitious polyurethane floor — Cementitious polyurethane flooring around processing equipment and drainage

Typical environments

Food-processing plants, commercial kitchens, breweries, dairies, beverage facilities, laboratories, cold-storage areas and heavy-use manufacturing spaces are common applications for appropriately selected systems.

How soon can the floor return to service?

That depends on the product and installation conditions. Permission for foot traffic is not the same as readiness for hot washdowns, chemical exposure or full production. The return-to-service schedule should reflect the actual operation, not just the earliest walk-on time.

Flooring applications

More examples of this service

Grey flooring with floor drains in a stainless-steel commercial kitchen — Commercial kitchen flooring and drainage

Red flooring around stainless-steel beverage processing tanks and a drainage channel — Beverage processing and tank areas

Worker washing a red food-processing floor beside a drainage channel — Food-processing washdown area

Textured red flooring beneath production equipment in a processing facility — Heavy-use production flooring

Project-specific guidance

Let's find the right system for your project.

Tell us where the project is located, how the space is used and what condition the concrete is in. Share drawings or photos when available, and let us know your intended schedule.

East Coast Coatings will review the information and contact you to discuss the appropriate next steps.

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Selection note: Final system selection, preparation, thickness, finish and return-to-service requirements depend on site conditions, the project specification and the selected manufacturer's recommendations.