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The Macallan’s Pioneering New Distillery Installs Flowcrete UK Flooring

The new distillery for luxury whisky brand The Macallan has installed a variety of Flowcrete UK floors to create surfaces that would reflect its visual identity and maintain the functional properties required to produce this iconic Scottish spirit.

When Edrington, the international spirits group that owns The Macallan, decided to build a £140 million facility to meet increasing global demand, they knew that no ordinary site would suffice. Instead, Edrington worked with the architectural practise Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to build a one-of-a-kind architectural monument on The Macallan’s traditional Speyside estate to house both a distillery and visitor centre.

A Modern Finish from Flowcrete UK for Menai Science Park

Anglesey’s new Menai Science Park, the first dedicated science park in Wales, required an iconic and modern flooring solution and consulted Flowcrete UK to help.

Wholly owned by Bangor University, Menai Science Park, or M-SParc as it’s known, is a facility where collaborations are encouraged and ignited by chance encounters in the shared spaces, and the client was eager for this energy to be reflected in the building’s interior.

Future-Proofing Food Industry Floors

Each element of a food and beverage processing facility needs to be finely tuned to ensure that the production lines and conveyor belts keep on rolling despite the intensive workload, large quantities and complex operations.

The floor is imperative to making sure that a plant is able to reliably keep on running for year after year. Failing floors are a sure-fire way to slow down activity by causing trip hazards, making the site more difficult to clean and incurring long periods of unprofitable downtime while the finish is being repaired or replaced.

Flowcrete Focus on Food-Safe Flooring at Food Quality & Safety Expo

At the third annual Food Quality & Safety Expo on 5th September 2018, Flowcrete UK will showcase the benefits of its Flowfresh and Flowfast ranges for the food industry from stand J1. 

Flowcrete UK will be displaying several products that are ideal for use in the food and beverage industry, including the antibacterial enhanced Flowfresh range and its fast-curing methyl methacrylate (MMA) resin acrylic floor coating collection Flowfast.

Flowcrete UK Introduces Enhanced Screeds and New Concrete Solutions

Flowcrete UK has been sharing its expertise with contractors around the country on a number of new screed solutions and construction chemical innovations.

The resin flooring specialists held three dedicated training days to inform the nation’s flooring applicators about recent enhancements that have been made to its high-performance screed systems as well as to introduce several new concrete repair and enhancement solutions.

Flooring Fit for any Food Industry Facility

The intricate world of the food & beverage industry consists of an almost endless number of processes, plants, mechanisms, routines, tests and operations. While there are common factors that unite them all, the challenges faced by each F&B facility can drastically vary.

For example, the demands that a craft beer brewery will face are going to be very different to that of a fishery and a confectioner is going to have to take into account different environmental concerns compared to a dairy farm.

Going Beyond Food Industry Flooring Standards

The scale of today’s food industry combined with the strict standards that it has to comply with means that food & beverage businesses have never faced so many challenges and concerns in order to successfully grow, process and sell products.

This is exemplified by the requirements placed on each building component, piece of equipment and production process. Every element has to be carefully considered and thought out to ensure that it will facilitate an ultra-hygienic space and that it will be able to retain its functionality in the face of an intensive food and beverage processing environment.

Flowcrete UK Expands BIM Content Library

Flowcrete UK has expanded its BIM (Building Information Modelling) Content Library to encompass a wide selection of resin floors, screeds, damp proof membranes and underfloor heating systems – everything an architect needs to create an accurate 3D representation of a high-performance floor area.

The resin flooring manufacturer is committed to providing the resources required by today’s high-tech construction industry professionals, which are increasingly embracing digital building modelling as a day-to-day practise.

Terrazzo: The Trend that Stands the Test of Time

Recently it’s been seen as a one-hit wonder from the 70s, but terrazzo has in fact been a popular material ever since Ancient Rome and today it’s back among the top global design trends.

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.

Flowcrete Unveils the Fast Curing Terrazzo System Mondéco Rapide

Flowcrete has launched Mondéco Rapide, a new resin terrazzo flooring system that delivers a robust, decorative finish in a fraction of the time of traditional terrazzo materials.