The floor underfoot plays a crucial role to ensuring that a brewery can operate effectively, quickly and hygienically – as if the floor fails then the site could be at risk from slips, trips, bacteria build-up and unsightly blemishes.
The Resin Flooring Association (FeRFA) represents major businesses and organisations involved in resin flooring, screeding and surface preparation. Its annual awards event, which this year was held at St Johns Hotel, Solihull, on November 23rd, celebrates the best of the resin flooring industry’s achievements from over the past year.
Nambour General Hospital is a large regional public hospital located in the Sunshine Coast servicing Nambour and the hinterland region.
When specifying the flooring for a canteen several factors must be considered, such as who will be using the space, what they will be using it for and what challenges the floor will face. For office canteens, it can be assumed that staff will be using the space to relax and eat lunch, so the floor is likely to face exposure to spilled food or drink, highlighting two properties that should be specified for the flooring - slip resistance and chemical resistance.
According to industry figures, over the past two years, one small brewery has opened each week.
Taking place from 9-10th August, Flowcrete Australia will be on Stall 24 displaying its range of luxury commercial floor finishes and introducing the seamless resin terrazzo systems Mondéco EP and Mondéco Rapide.
Splash!, which is taking place at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre from 1-2 August, provides the perfect platform for Australia’s pool, spa and aquatics industry professionals to discover the sector’s latest trends and technologies.
The Flowsports Aquatic collection features a number of solutions that have been designed to provide decorative, safe and reliable floors for areas such as internal and external pool concourses, walkways, amenities, change rooms and grandstone seating zones.
This boom is echoed in the increasing sales, with craft beer showing year on year double digit growth in liquor stores, with 24.2% for local craft beer – proving that the Australian appetite for high quality, locally made beer is far from being quenched!
From being installed in some of the most glamorous new restaurants and hotels to its inclusion in the Pinterest 100 Report (with saves up 316% in the past year), 2018 is set to be the year of terrazzo.
