Food and beverage flooring. Hygiene-graded. Built for wash-down.

Food and beverage processing floors are hygiene-graded, chemically resistant, thermal-shock tolerant and audit-ready by definition. The compliance baseline is FSANZ Standard 3.2.3 for food premises construction, layered with HACCP audit requirements, retailer standards where the site supplies to major grocers, and export standards where product ships internationally. Every floor we install in this vertical is built to carry the manufacturer documentation the next audit will ask for.

Typical build-ups start with polyurethane cement at 6 to 9 mm total thickness from a manufacturer with HACCP-aligned system data. 100 mm radius monolithic coving runs up the wall junctions, with no cold joint between floor and cove. Fall-to-drain is laser-screeded at 1:80 or steeper, with drain locations designed upfront rather than retrofitted. Antimicrobial silver-ion additive is specified and declared on the system data sheet. Textured broadcast at the topcoat stage gives wash-down zones their grip, and where the spec calls for slip testing to AS 4586 we arrange it.

Materials matter every time the system touches food contact. The polyurethane cement chemistry is the only family that survives 120 degree steam clean, dairy organic acids, fruit acids and brewery wort without degrading. Epoxy is specified in cooler, drier zones inside the same plant where the full polyurethane cement spec is not required. Antimicrobial additives are third-party tested and declared by the manufacturer, not inferred. The sealer, the coving, the drain set and the topcoat all pair on the one manufacturer system so the audit documentation is consistent.

Site conditions that move the spec: bakeries need fall-to-drain and fat-resistant polyurethane cement. Breweries need organic acid resistance and textured broadcast for wash-down. Commercial kitchens need food-acid-rated epoxy or polyurethane cement depending on the throughput. Dairy plants need heavy texture throughout. Cold stores need MMA fast-cure. Export plants need documentation in the form the certifying body accepts.

Install approach is the production window. Stripped, ground, repaired, primed, installed and handed back inside the shutdown you can give us, with MMA where the calendar is tightest. We plan the window with you before we quote and put the programme in writing. Documentation runs through SDS, system data sheets, the manufacturer's HACCP declaration, maintenance guide, SWMS and insurance, all bundled on hand-back.

What to expect is audit-conscious, and we set it out before we quote. We tell you how the floor will handle your chemistry and cleaning regime, how to look after it, and what will shorten its life, and we put the terms in writing with the price. The maintenance guide covers cleaning chemistry, temperatures and frequency, which matters because the wrong cleaner destroys the antimicrobial additive and the wrong temperature destroys the bond. Every part of the hand-back is tuned to make the next audit straightforward.