All About Epoxy Floor Paints for Industrial Flooring

Epoxy resins, also known as polyepoxides, are various reactive prepolymers and polymers that contain epoxide groups. The reaction of polyepoxides with themselves or with polyfunctional hardeners forms a thermosetting polymer that results in complementary mechanical characteristics and high thermal and chemical resistance. Epoxy has a wide range of applications that include metal coatings, in electronics/electrical components/LEDs, high tension electrical insulators, paintbrush manufacturing, fibre-reinforced plastic materials, and adhesives for structural and other purposes.

Epoxy paints are manufactured initially for industrial application. It is a latex acrylic component containing a small amount of epoxy for flooring purposes. Those paints make a durable protective coating that makes the floor easy to maintain. The composition of epoxy floor paint provides a high level of chemical, abrasion, impact, salt, water, acid, alkali and heat resistance, making the floor surface super long-lasting and traffic protected. Large scale industries usually use those paints for their floors who expect a heavy range of vehicle traffic on a daily basis.

There are many kinds of epoxy paints, but only two types are hugely used in industrial flooring, i.e. Concrete floor paint and Garage Floor Paint. 

Standard concrete floor paints can be used in any kind of flooring apart from industrial grade. Epoxy painted floors are quite popular in the domestic area. Applying resin epoxy on the domestic floor results in ultimate shine, finish and gloss that will surely turn visitors’ heads. The epoxy solution in paints makes the colours long-lasting. But applying epoxy in the domestic area is a little expensive to apply. They are meant to be applied on industrial concrete floors that have a massive possibility of damage and breakage.

Epoxy paints are applied on industrial concrete floors for many reasons like floor repair, crack fill, protective layer application or increasing resistance against outside residues. These are designed to develop the surface of concrete, cement and non-ferrous metals. This furnishes a perfect base for epoxy topcoat or works as a seal coat for bare concrete floors, improving resistance to water, solvents, acids, alkalis and salts. The paint has a tough finish and has long-lasting abrasion and impact resistance too. They are recommended for areas receiving heavy traffic (vehicle/trucks). These paints should be kept untouched for at least seven days to avoid any future discolouration. 

Regal Paints has introduced Concrete floor paint in many forms like base coat paint, topcoat paints, floor lining paint, Polyurethane Concrete Floor Paint, Antislip Quick Dry Concrete Floor Paint, Prime and seal coating, Aggregate paint etc.

Garage floor paints are specially formulated for heavy traffic endurance and anti-skid characteristics. Garage owners prefer garage floor paints that dry quickly and have good durability against abrasion and impact, along with protection against solvent, salt and water damage. Regal paints have an impressive range of Antislip Quick Dry Concrete Floor Paint for the garage that comes with low slip properties due to fine flat aggregated finish. This provides coverage of 5 to 10 m² per litre. There are many product ranges belonging to garage floor paints like Polyurethane Concrete Floor Paint, Quick-Dry High Build Floor Paint, Prime and seal and Aggregate Paints.

Regal paints have their own specialised team that is trained to provide more perfect service in less time. They supply every essential painting tool and material during the painting operation. Their website is full of all detailed pieces of information of their product stock and variety.