Interlocking Rubber Flooring

Many heavy industrial settings, including paper warehouses, steel and other heavy-weight or high-traffic applications suffer from shaking concrete floors. The source of the vibration is most often caused by rolling equipment crossing expansion joints cut in the concrete when poured. Cement contractors place these expansion joints in the floor in order to allow for the shrinkage that occurs in the concrete slabs as they cure. The joints are also helpful if the slab experiences major temperature changes.

Bridges, highways, and sidewalks may expand and contract considerably. Most modern buildings, however, are climate controlled with temperature variations within a 10-15 degree range. As a result, these expansion joints are more of a problem than a solution.  Read more...

Users of modern offices typically take the materials their offices are constructed from for granted, assuming long life and the ability to endure years of constant use and wear. Unfortunately, the desk surfaces, chair surfaces, floor surfaces, and the various moving part mechanisms of chairs, drawers, slides and other essential portions of the furnishings are less than perfect. They eventually succumb to the wear and tear of constant, everyday use. And none endures more punishment that the floor covering beneath the typical office chair.

Whether hardwood, carpet, ceramic or a synthetic material, the floor surface beneath any chair that is used on any regular basis will degrade sooner than later unless some form of protection is utilized. This protects not only the floor surface, but with the proper choice, helps prolong the chair wheel system as well. A hard surface designed to withstand constant wheel rolling, twisting and high pressure loads is obviously desired and the typical chair mat is designed for exactly this purpose.  Read more...