Resin flooring contractors Wrexham manufacturers, food producers and logistics operators rely on for floors specified by sector rather than by habit. Supporting facilities across Wrexham Industrial Estate, Whitegate, Rhosddu, Bersham, Llay and Wrexham Technology Park.
Working for national manufacturers, logistics operators and public sector estates since 1999.
As resin flooring contractors Wrexham operators call on regularly, we switch registers more often here than anywhere else in the region. Wrexham is North Wales’ primary industrial and manufacturing centre, on the A483 in Wrexham County Borough, and Wrexham Industrial Estate is one of the largest in Europe.
Within a few square kilometres it presents almost every industrial floor problem there is. Heavy manufacturing, food and drink production, polymer and chemical processing, electronics, warehousing and the trade units serving all of them, frequently a few hundred metres apart on the same internal road.
The common thread underneath is physical. Across an unusually large aggregate floor area under near-constant forklift movement, the recurring failure is abrasion and joint arris breakdown, whatever the building above it is being used for.
One of the largest estates in Europe, with manufacturing, logistics, polymer and food facilities.
Light industrial, manufacturing and storage operations on the eastern side of the town.
Warehousing, trade and industrial support units sitting close to the town centre itself.
Manufacturing and engineering facilities with substantial and continuous operational demands.
Established industrial, engineering and storage units on the northern side of the town.
Technical, laboratory and higher-specification production and research space near the centre.
Abrasion, machine base impact, oil and coolant exposure across large production halls.
Washdown, caustic cleaning, thermal shock, coved skirtings and correct falls to drain.
Chemical contact, granulate spillage, thermal load and containment where it is needed.
Forklift abrasion, joint arris protection and racking baseplate point loading.
Seamless, disinfectant-resistant and, where warranted, electrostatically controlled.
Dock-edge impact, hard-wheeled traffic and yard-to-building slip transitions.
A food hall and a heavy engineering plant sit a few hundred metres apart here and need opposite specifications. What they share is the failure: saw-cut and construction joint arrises break down long before the field of the floor does.
The register has to switch cleanly. Coving and falls in one unit, impact and abrasion class in the next, on the same estate road.
Joint edges take the impact of every wheel crossing them, so they are rebuilt in structural resin and sealed to keep moving.
At this scale demarcation is a designed control integrated into the floor, and it can be set out bilingually where a site requires it.
Nothing on this estate closes conveniently. Production runs, despatch windows and audit schedules all have to hold, so phased and zoned installation around live shifts is the normal way of working rather than an accommodation.
Work is taken zone by zone, aisle by aisle or out of hours, so one part of a building is handed back while the next is prepared. Where polyurethane systems are specified, ISOPA and ALIPA diisocyanate training records apply and every operative handling them holds current REACH certification.
Preparation runs under H-class extraction with shared areas screened. On older engineering stock that also addresses the dusting concrete already in the building, with silica limited under EH40 to 0.1 mg per cubic metre over an eight-hour period.
On a site this size, separating pedestrians from vehicles is a designed control built into the floor.
Seamless, non-porous finishes with coved skirtings and correct falls across food production areas.
The FeRFA range matched to forklift movement and racking loads, with EN 13813 covering the screed.
BS 7976 pendulum values at washdown areas, goods-in thresholds and identified spill-risk zones.
FeRFA classifies resin flooring into eight types by build-up and thickness, and BS 8204-6 governs which one a floor actually needs, with EN 13813 for the screed and EN 1504-2 for concrete protection. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside that classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up. On this estate the right answer changes building by building, which is why we specify by unit.
FeRFA Type 1. Two or more coats up to 150 microns, binding a dusting substrate and giving a cleanable surface. From £8 per square metre.
FeRFA Type 2. Dual component to 300 microns, solvent free, in gloss, matt or silk. Chemical resistance with a decorative finish.
FeRFA Type 3. Up to 1000 microns over prepared concrete and the system specified on most industrial jobs. Takes colour well for demarcation.
FeRFA Type 4. Multi-coat build at 1 to 3mm with aggregate broadcast between coats, for impact and constant wear.
FeRFA Type 5. Flow-applied at 2 to 3mm for a seamless finish where hygiene and cleaning matter more than impact resistance.
FeRFA Type 7. Three part filled system at 4 to 6mm thickness, giving a self-smoothing finish for heavy and very heavy duty areas.
FeRFA Types 7 and 8. Trowel-applied at 6 to 9mm to take thermal shock, steam cleaning and constant heavy forklift traffic.
Cures at temperatures down to −5°C and is ready in around two hours. Installed overnight or at a weekend it can remove the need to shutdown entirely.
Cures in hours, but the odour can taint food, fabrics and stock and the area must be cleared and ventilated. Better suited to new build and refurbishment projects.
Rates run from £8 per square metre for a floor seal to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Across a multi-unit site the sectors are priced separately, because averaging them suits none of the buildings.
| System | FeRFA | Thickness | Per m² |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floor Seal | Type 1 | Up to 150µm | From £8 |
| Epoxy and PU Coating | Type 2 | 150 – 300µm | £8 – £12 |
| High Build Coating | Type 3 | 300 – 1000µm | £8 – £12 |
| Multi-Layer Flooring | Type 4 | 1 – 3mm | £12 – £16 |
| Self-Smoothing | Type 5 | 2 – 4mm | £20 – £30 |
| Heavy Duty Flowable | Type 7 | 4 – 6mm | £25 – £35 |
| Heavy Duty PU Screed | Type 8 | 6 – 9mm | £30 – £40 |
| Polyaspartic | Chemistry | 300 – 500µm | £38 |
| MMA | Chemistry | 2 – 6mm | £45 |
Inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Rates assume a sound, accessible substrate and are indicative until the floor has been surveyed. Polyaspartic and MMA sit outside the FeRFA type classification because they describe the resin chemistry rather than the build-up.
A three day shutdown at a plant turning over £2,000 an hour is £120,000 of lost output. On most sites that is several times the price of the floor.
Five contractors quoted one timber processing plant. All five proposed the same system and a three to four day closure. None of them costed the closure.
We proposed a faster-curing system installed across a weekend. A higher rate per square metre, and no shutdown at all. On the client’s own figures the avoided losses exceeded the price of the floor.
We install evenings, weekends and one bay at a time.
Whether a shutdown costs you thousands an hour or simply gets in the way, you do not always have to close your site for a resin flooring installation.
Arris rebuilding, crack stitching and flexible sealing across trafficked joints and aprons.
Walkways, vehicle routes and exclusion zones in resin, with Welsh-language marking where required.
Damp proof membrane where a substrate fails moisture testing, as a standalone package.
Abrasion and impact rated systems installed zone by zone around continuous production.
Seamless coved floors laid to correct falls and handed back ready for a hygiene audit.
Joint repairs and durable finishes phased so that despatch windows are never missed.
We work across the county borough regularly, from Wrexham Industrial Estate and the Technology Park through to Whitegate, Rhosddu, Bersham and Llay. We are based in the North West of England and reach Wrexham directly along the A483 and A55, so a survey usually happens within days at no mobilisation charge.
It is the most common failure on the estate and it is usually the joint rather than the floor. The arris takes the impact of every wheel crossing it, and once an edge chips the damage widens into the surrounding concrete. Arrises are rebuilt in structural resin and sealed flexibly so the joint can still move.
Yes, but not one specification. Those two need opposite systems, so we specify unit by unit rather than applying an estate-wide answer. Averaging a hygiene brief and an impact brief produces a floor that satisfies neither and costs more than doing each properly.
Yes. Walkways, vehicle routes, crossing points and exclusion zones are applied in resin rather than tape, and Welsh-language marking and bilingual wayfinding can be included where the site requires it.
Yes, and it is how work on this estate is normally programmed. Floors are taken zone by zone, aisle by aisle or out of hours so one area is handed back while the next is prepared, with rapid-cure systems where an area has to be back under load quickly.
From £8 per square metre for a floor seal up to £45 for MMA, inclusive of preparation, labour and materials. Heavy manufacturing and hygienic production systems sit at the upper end. The full table by system is on the cost page.
Tell us what each unit does, what crosses its floor and when the area can be released. We attend, test the substrate, and put a written specification and a fixed price in front of you at no cost.
