PRODUCTS
Quarzite slabs for walls and floors
Quartzite Celadon slabs from Antonlini combine hints and hues that range from white to light grey and go as far as anthracite and black. The material, suitable for floors and walls, enhances expressive contemporary design, the company says, giving a feeling of welcome and hospitality. Spaces and architectural structures are underlined by the elegance of this quartzite, it adds, whose beauty is linked to the earth and to a notion of time tha overcomes styles and fashions. www.antolini.com Decorative epoxy flooring
Florock Polymer Flooring has introduced the FloroStone Decorative Flooring System, a decorative epoxy flooring that is said to combine a sanitary, high-performance traffic surface with modern, upscale aesthetics in an economical, quick-turnaround system. The system’s
slurry formulation is a departure from traditional, double-broadcast epoxy systems, requiring approximately 60 percent fewer man hours and 40 percent less turnaround time, the company says, in addition to enabling virtually undetectable repair of minor damage when needed. Available in high-gloss or satin finishes and choice of slip-resistant textures, the durable product features 12 colour blends, plus a wider selection of custom colour options. Utilizing plastic strips or tape-off methods, the commercial and institutional epoxy system can be used to create unique floor designs. www.florock.net
floor covering, while being as functional and durable as well as easy to clean as any resilient floorcovering. Available in both sheet and tile formats, the flooring range has ultra-low volatile organic compounds (VOC) emissions and zero phthalates, and also holds the Allergy UK Seal of Approval. www.forbo.com VOC-free edge-sealing compound
Colour flocked, vinyl backed flooring
The Flex-Tred edge sealing compound from Wooster Products has no VOCs and is a one-part, high-solids, elastomeric sealant. The solvent release product is ready to use without mixing, priming or heating. Applied by squeeze tube, the flexible compound seals the company’s Forbo has launched a new range of its Flex-Tred anti-slip tape to all types of textile flooring designed for offices. The metal including galvanized, wood, Flotex Colour range is said to combine the particleboard, plywood, EPDM and other warmth, comfort and acoustic properties kinds of rubber, thermoplastics, thermoof textile flooring with the practical and set plastics, fibreglass and other fibre hygienic considerations of a synthetic reinforced plastics, concrete, masonry and material. The collection is available in five glass. It has excellent weather, UV and different designs: Metro, Penang, Calgary, ozone resistance, for a long service life, Savannah and Canyon. Each of the the company says, and is tack free in flooring designs is available in planks, under an hour and can be painted when sheets or tiles. In total the collection is dry. The product provides water and available in 96 different shades. Flotex moisture resistance, and resists cracking, technology flocked flooring is made up chipping and peeling. The applied bead from a solid vinyl, reinforced base with a will shrink approximately 55 percent, so densely flocked surface of nylon 6.6 no tooling is necessary for most applicafibres, that are anchored firmly into the tions. The bead surface will be tack free in base layer. The technology is dimension15 to 45 minutes, depending on ambient ally stable and has the optics of a textile conditions. www.woosterproducts.com Canada’s floorcovering magazine 25
