Epoxy Flooring vs. Polyurea Flooring - Advantages and Disadvantages

Traditional Flooring vs. Industrial Needs

Traditionally, flooring solutions primarily utilized concrete and granite. However, industrial flooring often requires substantial load-bearing capacity and resistance to constant mechanical abrasion and wear, a demand that conventional flooring struggles to meet. As the industry evolves, epoxy flooring has become a dominant choice in industrial applications, and in recent years, polyurea flooring has rapidly gained traction.

Epoxy Flooring

Epoxy flooring, in contrast to traditional concrete or granite, boasts several advantages: high compressive strength, appealing gloss, smoothness, high density, and aesthetic appeal, quickly gaining market popularity post-introduction. However, long-term use has revealed certain drawbacks:

• Limited flexibility, prone to cracking under impact or temperature fluctuations.
• Poor slip resistance, particularly in wet conditions.
• Temperature-sensitive installation, posing challenges in colder months.
• Typically a three-layer application (base, middle, top), leading to slower construction speeds. It cannot be utilized for at least two days post-completion, impacting production schedules.

Polyurea Flooring

Polyurea flooring builds upon the inherent strengths of epoxy flooring, enhancing both its physical and construction properties. Unique in design and customizable in color, polyurea flooring offers excellent wear resistance, non-slip surfaces, and vehicular traffic endurance, making it easy to clean. This makes it highly suitable for use in industries like oil, chemical plants, electronics, pharmaceuticals, food, machinery, and offices. Specifically, polyaspartic polyurea, representing the third generation of polyurea products, outperforms standard polyurea flooring with superior wear and scratch resistance, remarkable weather durability, color stability, and crack resistance even in outdoor settings. Its simple, efficient, and rapid application makes it an optimal choice for high-end, solvent-free flooring solutions.

Feiyang has been specializing in the production of raw materials for polyaspartic coatings for 30 years and can provide polyaspartic resins, hardeners and coating formulations. Some of our polyaspartic coating formulations: Polyaspartic Coating

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Our products list:

• Polyaspartic Resin
• Isocyanate Hardener
• Special Chemical

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Shenzhen Feiyang Protech Corp., Ltd. specializes in researching and producing polyaspartic polyurea resin and other new chemical products. We are recognized as a "National Special New Key Little Giant" and a "State-level High-tech Enterprise", with more than 50 polyaspartic polyurea invention patents. We also participated in the preparation of 13 industry standards for polyaspartic polyurea materials as a leading company in this field, ranking No.1 in the Chinese market.

In the coating industry, polyaspartic polyurea is used in construction machinery, automobile, containers, fan blades, marine heavy corrosion protection, and high-end industrial and commercial floor coatings. In the adhesive field, it is mainly used in sealants, stone adhesives, electronic adhesives, film circuit packaging adhesives, and other high-end applications. In the waterproofing materials sector, it is primarily used in hydroelectric dams, water parks, building waterproofing repair materials, and other areas. In the structural materials field, it is applied to curling tracks, artificial ice skating rinks, and other structural materials.

Polyaspartic polyurea is considered a high-end new material in the strategy of manufacturing power. We have broken the foreign technology monopoly and filled the domestic market gap. Due to its comprehensive characteristics of "Environmental protection, Energy saving, and Long durability", polyaspartic polyurea can contribute to the realization of genuine carbon neutrality in the coatings, adhesives, and materials industries.

Since 2012, Feiyang polyaspartic ester resin has been supplied overseas. It has been widely used to replace Bayer's current polyaspartic system in many coating companies and has been applied in anti-corrosion and waterproofing by international coating companies.