High-Bay Warehouse kept at full flow

• Name

  Refurbishment of Industrial floor with operations ongoing

• Country

  Switzerland, 2023

• Categories

  Floor Coatings

• Products

  MC-DUR 1320 VK
  MC-DUR 1322
  MC-DUR TopSpeed
  MC-Floor Screed 10

The highly stressed and heavily worn floor of a high-bay warehouse operated by an industrial manufacturing company was long due comprehensive repair. And the project entailed a good degree of cross-border European cooperation, with sales colleagues from MC-Germany and MC-Switzerland collaborating with chosen contractor Strabag AG, a leading European construction group that is also active in the “Alpine Republic”. MC's experts were involved in the solution-finding work from the very beginning of the planning phase. They were able to recommend the fast industrial flooring system MC-DUR TopSpeed for a large portion of the areas requiring a refurb, and the OS 8 coating system MC-DUR 1322 for a vehicle parking bay.

Implementation without operational disruption

The biggest challenge was that the floor area, which was divided into several zones and covered a total of around 7,500 m², had to be repaired with the storage and retrieval (S/R) operations ongoing. This demanded from all involved effective implementation concepts based around an ingenious logistical masterplan. The Strabag team also had to be trained by MC-Bauchemie in the use of the product systems in order to ensure that all work proceeded smoothly once it was set in train.

 

 

Top results with MC-DUR TopSpeed

The Strabag team first started with the main task: the repair and coating of the hard concrete over an area of 4,900 m² in the high-bay warehouse. This hard concrete exhibited extensive cracking, with voids apparent in a number of zones. And the fact that the work had to be carried out in numerous stages so as not to interfere with the ongoing operation of the high-bay warehouse added a further degree of difficulty.

 

Hence, all parties involved opted for an industrial floor structure based on the high-performance coating system MC-DUR TopSpeed. This allows industrial floors to be built up particularly quickly, with full service loading possible after just a few hours. In addition to accelerated curing, which occurs largely independently of weather and environmental conditions, MC-DUR TopSpeed is impressively easy to apply and scores high in terms of abrasion and scratch resistance. In addition to speed and reliability, the system offered a further plus in this project in that the required conductivity of the floor could be verifiably achieved by merely scattering a layer of conductive sand, thus eliminating the need for either a conductive primer or an antistatic top seal. Subsequently, MC-DUR TopSpeed was also applied to the lift forecourts and storage areas, covering a floor area of a further 1,200 m², and also in a loading bay over an area of 300 m².

Floor structure for a vehicle parking bay

Last on the agenda was coating work in a 1,000m² storage hall that was to be converted into a car parking bay for future use. Here, in accordance with the new usage profile, the fast-curing, high-strength industrial floor covering MC-Floor Screed 10 was first applied over the entire surface to be upgraded. This was followed by scratch and cavity filling with the highly fillable epoxy resin MC-DUR 1320 VK and quartz sand. The floor finish took the form of a top seal with MC-DUR 1322, a product that offers very good abrasion and chemical resistance.

 

The MC product systems not only ensured a visually and technically sophisticated outcome, but also contributed to the time and cost savings achieved by virtue of the fact that the warehouse remained fully operative throughout the refurb work.