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Roll On Rock Around the Clock: Resort Gets New Coating

After the contractor performed a sample balcony installation of a two-part epoxy flake system, the resort’s management team was convinced to use it for numerous vacation facilities, starting with Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

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Steel City Facility Floor Refresh

A facility in Pittsburgh needed a floor refresh and had only two days to complete it. The local contractor, Titan Floor Surface Technology, used a polyaspartic system to get the facility back and running by Sunday night.

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Big Floor Fix for Big Ten Teams

The 5,000-square-foot kitchen area floor at the University of Minnesota’s new Athletes Village required a bit of finessing from EDC Install Solutions Inc.

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Durable Floor Hand-Crafted for Dauntless Distillery

Craft brewers and distillers know a lot about beer and spirits. And they know a lot more than they probably ever wanted to know about floors. The first time a keg is dropped on an uncoated concrete floor, a brewery owner sees the importance of having a high-quality floor system.

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Trio Ventures in Floor Coatings for Brewery

Tribus Beer Company, based in Milford, Connecticut, started with three beer-loving friends in 2017. The company, which currently boasts a pilsner, porter, and several IPAs (India Pale Ales) at their tap room, is named Milton’s first and only tap house. Getting to the grand opening was a grassroots effort.

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A Fresh Floor for a Historic Concert Venue

Now known as The Observatory North Park, this venerable University Avenue venue has found new life as a multi-purpose hot spot, boasting a redesigned open-floor space that can accommodate standing crowds of up to 1,110 people.

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All Around Seamless Coating System

For Accurate Technologies Inc., which makes devices for Ford Motor Company and Shaurya Racing, a new facility at their worldwide headquarters outside Detroit, Michigan, meant an opportunity for a new look. The powers that be wanted a system for the floors, walls, and ceilings that would not only be functional but also attractive.

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Notre Dame Stadium Goes for Gold in Latest Revamp

The famed tunnel sign at Notre Dame Stadium, built in 1929 and home to the 11-time national championship football program at the University of Notre Dame, reads “Play Like a Champion Today.” For the nearly 80,000 fans and prospective recruits that visit on Saturdays in the fall to cheer on the Fighting Irish, they’d like the legendary stadium to look worthy of a champion, too!

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Apartment Floors Upgraded With Anti-Slip Coatings

Originally, the owners wanted most of the concrete floors to be polished. But the 1,900-square-foot (176.5 m²) Founders Club area was right near the entrance to the pool, which meant that water might be tracked in by residents.

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Highly Specified Floor for School Kids

The client, which has four different locations, wanted to complete the reworking on one of the building’s floors during winter break. There were no staff or children to work around, but the crew only had one week to complete the job. That meant no time for mockups, mistakes, or slow-cure coatings.

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Powering Up Battery Charging Area Floor

The client, was opening a new warehouse that was to use fork lifts. And those lifts would need to be charged. A battery charging station equals battery acid. And so the next logical step was install a protective coating system on the new concrete floor.

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Working Out a Gym’s Epoxy Floor

For many, working out at the gym usually results in being in better shape or higher fitness, but for the four- to six-person crew from Abbruzzese Floors Inc., they got something special out of their gym membership: a coatings job.