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GRATING FOR INDUSTRIAL FLOORING SOLUTIONS Engineered to carry loads with minimal dead weight, while maximising airflow and light penetration, grating is a world-renowned economical floor solution with aesthetic appeal. Mentis Africa openfloor grating is manufactured to a high quality standard that delivers resilience and craftsmanship. Mentis Africa grating can be specified as Flooring, Stair Treads & Trench Covers in various industries, including construction, engineering, mining, oil & gas and industrial markets. It can also be used for fencing, shelving, barricades and screens – the only limit is your imagination. The grating products are manufactured using a pressure-locking system pioneered by founder of the business, Andrew Mentis, which produces unquestionable locking characteristics, guaranteeing the structural integrity of the product. Quality control during the manufacturing process ensures that close tolerances are maintained, and that the round transversal bar fits tightly through the pierced bearer bar. Because the intersection locking is so strong, it is not necessary to band this grating. During manufacturing, the panels leave the rolling mill finished on half pitch all round. This allows the team to lay panels adjacent to each other to maintain a perfectly patterned floor with no banding. This is known as the ‘open-ended system’.
However, if customers require banded grating, Mentis has the facilities to accommodate this. Floor grating elements need to meet certain nonnegotiable criteria: • The transversals must be positively and permanently locked to the bearer bars • There should be no cracks or crevices at intersections that could harbour corrosion • The locking method at the intersections should be designed to use the full depth of the bearer bar when calculating loads • The grating panels should be flat, square and untwisted. MENTIS PRODUCTS: • Pressure Lock Grating: The Mentis Pressure Lock Grating is a fully unified open-floor grating, locking flat bars and round bars together to create the perfect blend of strength and performance. • Welded Bar Grating: The Mentis Fusion Welded Grating is a fully unified open-floor grating, with flat bars and round bars fusion welded together to create the perfect blend of strength and performance. • Heel Guard Grating: The Mentis Heel Guard Grating redefines pedestrianfriendly grating by maximising comfort through tightly spaced bars with the open style functionality of traditional open-floor grating. • FRP grating: Mentis
FRP Grating combines fibreglass strength with polyester resin to achieve the chemical resistance demanded from highly corrosive environments. • Aluminium Grating: Mentis Aluminium Grating utilises an aluminium flat bar with a pressure-locked cross rod to offer a lightweight and tough open-floor grating that also delivers corrosion resistance.
• Planks: Mentis Planks are a single strip of metal formed into self-supporting planks with a grip surface – the perfect combination of practical form and design. • Walkway Planks: Ingenuity through design – the Mentis Walkway Planks provide a walkway with minimal supporting steel to revolutionise installation. www.mentis.co.za
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