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Hygienic flooring solution for international dairy nutrition business

21 June 2021

Kemtile has recently completed a design and installation project for Volac – an international dairy nutrition business – at its Felinfach plant, in Ceredigion, West Wales. To fulfill the project requirements, Kemtile worked with Whitland Engineering to build a new dryer tower to increase capacity at the dairy production facility. 

Using the latest membrane filtration and drying technologies, the plant produces high-performance whey protein isolates for the sports and active nutrition markets, lactose for use in a range of food applications and base powders for young animal milk formulas. 

Kemtile flooring has been previously specified for Volac, including the installation of both Kagetec ceramic tiling and resin systems. 

For this project, however, Kemtile specified 1576m2 Stonhard Stonclad GS over four floors. This high-performance epoxy system cures to an extremely hard, impact-resistant mortar and offers the benefits of abrasion, wear and chemical resistance.

The Stonclad GS epoxy resin was then finished with Stonkote HT4 – a chemically resistant and hardwearing topcoat with a texture 2 surface profile for slip resistance, which made it particularly suitable for this processing environment. Its addition further improves cleanability and aesthetics as it hardens to a gloss finish and increases resistance to damage from abrasion and chemical spillages.

These specifications were complemented with 834msq of Kagetec GFK – a hygienic tiled floor system with the benefits of quick installation and high mechanical, load-bearing properties, resistant to thermal shock. 

Kemtile’s co-polymer screed provided the base for the project and a stainless-steel gulley system and drainage channels – manufactured by from Wiedemann-Technik – were also installed.

Elgan Jones, chief engineer at Volac, said: “As a company, we enjoy a longstanding and successful relationship with Kemtile and we’ve brought them onboard to design and install a number of our flooring systems over the years. We are consistently impressed with the solution and installation they provide.”


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