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Rubber is a highly resilient flooring option, especially when it comes to residential and commercial applications. But did you know that it’s also well suited as the material for industrial floor coverings?
Elephant Bark 5mm
What Are Industrial Mats?
Industrial mats are flooring options that are designed to enhance floor quality in industrial settings. Typically, this means durability, shock-absorption, slip-resistance, water-resistance, and anti-fatiguing properties. The same tough and resilient qualities that make a rubberized surface such a great choice for basements, home gyms, and many other applications are also applicable to factories, high foot-traffic locations, and other areas that require all the protective benefits offered by a material as strong as rubber. Now that you know what industrial mats are, check out how industrial mats can be applied to nearly any work environment. The following is our A-to-Z list of places that benefit greatly from its installation:
- Industrial Matting in Agriculture
- Once fruits and vegetables have been picked, they have to be washed and packaged. Corrugated flooring, such as diamond-plate mat and raised-coin flooring options, offers excellent slip-resistance.
- Industrial Matting in a Bakery
- Like in any other food preparation business, such as coffee and sandwich shops, employees in bakeries will likely spend a lot of time on their feet. Rubber work mats aren’t just tough—they offer a supple surface to stand on that naturally combats fatigue.
- Industrial Matting at a Car Wash
- Whether it’s a professional or do-it-yourself car wash, rubber, workshop floor mats naturally enhance traction while also being slip-resistant. Car washes are oftentimes slippery from all the excess moisture, so rubber industrial flooring will help keep employees and customers safe from slip-and-fall accidents.
- Industrial Matting at the Dentist’s Office
- When your dentist is coming at you with a drill in one hand and a syringe in the other, you definitely want your dentist to have secure footing! Plus, dentist offices often deal with excess liquid, increasing the risk of a slip-and-fall accident occurring. Rubber surfacing, while already having a high coefficient of friction, often comes with richly textured surfaces. With flooring like industrial anti-fatigue mats in place, dentists and dental assistants will be kept more firmly on their feet.
- Industrial Matting in Educational Facilities
- Though they may not seem like places that need industrial mats—the hallways of Elementary, Middle, and High School, are regularly subjected to many conditions that necessitate the use of industrial, rubber flooring. Think about it—all that heavy foot-traffic, all that food and water being thrown around—and you get the idea: There’s good reason for why educational environments are primary candidates for the installation of an industrial rubber floor.
- Industrial Matting in the Fishing Industry
- Whether on a fishing boat or in a processing center, the fishing industry can greatly benefit from the slip-resistant qualities of corrugated flooring. Many rubber products are specially made to withstand constant exposure to sunlight and withstand excessive moisture, which are the sort of conditions that fishing facilities typically inhabit.
- Industrial Matting in Grocery Stores
- Keep checkout clerks comfortable with rubber, work floor mats. The elastic nature of the mats’ rubber will support feet, ankles, and legs through long work shifts wherein clerks are standing all day. It’s a way of showing appreciation for your checkout clerks that reflects how caring of a person you are.
Elephant Bark 5mm
- Made with used tire crumb
- Provides a variety of thickness and color options
- Easy to cut and install if you want a fun DIY project
- Cost-effective, durable, and sustainable over the long term
- Outdoor flooring readily available in custom lengths specified to your preference
- Perfect for use in numerous applications, such as flooring for a gym, trailer mat, kennel mat, golf course mat, studio flooring, basement flooring, playground flooring, and much more
Easy to Install: Whether you have a temporary or permanent use for these mats, the installation process for this rolled rubber flooring is so easy that you will hardly break a sweat. For temporary uses, double-sided tape is the best option. For a permanent installation, a glue adhesive will be ideal. The rubber material works very well with various adhesives. The weight of the mat itself is enough to keep it flat on the surface.
Excellent Durability: The protective qualities of this rolled rubber flooring is hard to beat. These rubber flooring mats are designed with abrasive conditions in mind. As a result, they excel as outdoor flooring in applications such as a kennel mat or flooring for a gym. The constant wear and tear of high foot traffic pose no problem to these durable Green floor mats. The rubber material of the mat will even buffer against the weight of heavy equipment, which can wreak havoc on wood floors. Their lasting durability has made them the preferred choice for floor protection across the country. It is hard to beat this level of quality protection for this price.
- Industrial Matting in Hair Salons & Day Spas
- Hair salons and day spas are always working with a lot of water. With rubber’s natural resistance to water, industrial flooring made of rubber is the business owner’s best bet since it makes their floors so easy to clean. For one thing, maintaining a clean, professional appearance is important. But for another, it’s just nice to know you’re keeping your subflooring free from the harmful effects of overexposure to moisture. Corrugated floor protection has a multitude of uses in places like hair salons and day spas.
- Industrial Matting in Ice Skating Rinks
- There are many reasons for why industrial flooring solutions like rubber workshop flooring are widely employed in ice-skating rinks. The ice from the rink is often dragged into the sidelines, creating slip-and-fall hazards and potentially damaging your subflooring. Plus, ice skates are hard, as well as delicate. Having patrons walking around on a flooring like concrete with ice skates on, in the long term, will probably ruin your flooring and damage their equipment. Rubber, industrial floor tiles are a highly profitable investment in ice skating rinks.
- Industrial Matting for Janitorial Services
- Along with placing those bright-yellow wet-floor signs, janitors can also employ rubber work mats atop floors that often get wet. Naturally resistant to water, industrial matting, such as rubber, diamond-plate matting and coin-grip flooring, are excellent options for further ensuring the safety of your guests and employees. These mats are also available in the form of a corrugated rubber runner, a product which can be custom cut in seamless lengths of up to 50 feet.
- Industrial Matting in Kennels (Animal Housing)
- Places that work with animals—such as animal shelters—often home these creatures in kennels. Because animals tend to be messy, kennels become dirty quickly. Furthermore, hard flooring can really hurt animals’ paws. Rubber, industrial floor coverings are an excellent options for kennels because of how easy to clean they are and because of their natural anti-fatiguing properties.
- Industrial Matting in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Some of the people most at risk for severe injury from slipping and falling are the elderly. Long-term care facilities can greatly reduce the risk of a slip-and-fall accident by installing ribbed rubber flooring over its floors, leveraging the benefits of rubber’s natural traction-enhancing properties.
- Industrial Matting for Manufacturers
- Manufacturing is inseparable from the proper functioning of modern society. As a result, many people work within manufacturing industries. They play an important role in our lifestyles, so it’s important that employers make sure they stay comfortable and healthy, especially since they stand on their feet all day. Rubber, studded tiles are just one of the many options available to the caring employer—boosting the comfortability and, therefore, morale of your workforce is not a trivial benefit. Manufacturers stand to gain a lot by considering rubber work mats for their employees’ workstations.
- Industrial Matting in a Nursery (Garden Center, Farm Supply Store)
- Corrugated flooring is great for scraping debris and moisture off the bottoms of shoes. Because nurseries are always working with dirt and water, textured tile flooring makes a lot of sense for keeping them cleaner. In addition, rubber, industrial flooring—like rubber shop-mats—is much easier to clean than other types of flooring. In nurseries, these benefits are invaluable.
- Industrial Matting in Offices
- From corporate headquarters to smaller business buildings, industrial mats can be used to achieve a professional and polished look—all while keeping office workers comfortable.
- Industrial Matting in Physical Fitness Clubs (Gyms)
- It’s rare for a fitness club to own the building where it’s located. More often than not, the club leases its building, which means that protecting the building’s subflooring from damage is especially important. Expensive repairs are likely avoidable if the club opts for industrial floor coverings throughout its gym. Rubber products afford subfloors valuable protection from the operations of heavy exercise equipment.
- Industrial Matting in Quality-Supervision Services
- Maintaining quality of products and services is an important aspect of any business. Keep your quality supervisors comfortable with rubber work mats, so that they can focus on the task at hand.
- Industrial Matting in Restaurants
- The food service industry is fast-paced and oftentimes chaotic. The benefits of rubber, industrial mats perfectly fit restaurant conditions. Think about slip-resistance, ease of cleaning, and anti-fatiguing properties—just to name a few.
- Industrial Matting in Sporting Arenas
- When it comes to sports, keeping fans safe is just as important as good sportsmanship. Using slip-resistant treads on stairs or rubber, diamond-plate flooring on concrete are great ways of keeping fans comfortable on their feet and safe from slips and falls.
- Industrial Matting in the Transportation Industry
- Vans, buses, and airplanes are just some examples of modern transportation—a cornerstone of our modern lifestyles. But, these vehicles tend to get dirty. Because rubber products are so easy to clean, rubber utility mats and other industrial floor mats are useful additions to any vehicle’s interior.
- Industrial Matting for Utility Services
- From the buildings that generate and manage utility services to the company vans that zoom to and fro, carrying out their jobs—rubber, workshop floor mats are ideal for protecting subflooring, as well as protecting the interiors of company vehicles from heavy equipment-loads.
- Industrial Matting in the Veterinary Office
- If you have a pet then you know how difficult it is for them to walk on polished surfaces like hardwood, tile, and linoleum. Rubber corrugated flooring is a great way to give pets traction as they run around. Thus, places like veterinary offices benefit greatly from the installation of rubber, industrial tile flooring, enhancing the comfort of their clients’ pets.
“Kitchen Mat” Grease-Resistant Rubber Mat
- Can be cleaned in a dishwasher
- Nitrile rubber can also resist chemicals
- Comes with beveled edges that allows easy access for wheeled equipment
- Perfect to use as a kitchen chef mat, bar mats, restaurant runners, poolside mats, locker room mats, and even as industrial mats
Best Safety Mats: When you buy these rubber mats, you are buying safety. Their safety applications are twofold. The first is most obvious, which is the way they drain liquids. That will make the surface of the mats less slippery. The other way they increase safety for you is due to the raised pill-shaped design that surrounds the drainage holes. This design enhances traction and will make sure that everyone who steps on the mat will remain safe.
Resists Grease: This rubber mat has the benefit of being made from nitrile rubber. Nitrile rubber was designed to be grease-resistant from the beginning, with the first nitrile material coming onto the market after World War I. This property makes them even better safety mats. So not only do the drainage holes let the grease seep through, the nitrile material will prevent the mats from being damaged by it.
