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Donated Floor Brings Colour and Cleanliness to Child Centre

Flowcrete South Africa has donated a bright, attractive and easy to clean floor to a day care centre that provides care and education to disadvantaged young children.

The Project Feed the Children Early Childhood Development Day Care Centre was set up in 2012 by founder Shaun Botha in an impoverished rural township on the outskirts of Benoni, Gauteng. Initially the centre’s aim was to serve as a babysitting service but it is now working with The 100% Foundation to become a community education and skills development hub.

Modern Hospitals Coat Kitchens with Flowfresh Flooring

Flowcrete South Africa has recently worked with a number of state-of-the-art hospitals, providing ultra-hygienic kitchen floors to safeguard patient health by keeping these contamination-sensitive areas clean and clear.

It is imperative that floors in hospital kitchens facilitate a sanitary working environment - as otherwise the patients could be at risk from dangerous foodborne illnesses.

Flowcrete Showcases Resin Flooring at the Food & Hospitality Exhibition

Flowcrete South Africa showcased its high performance resin flooring solutions at the Food & Hospitality Exhibition located in the Gallagher Convention Centre from the 7th to 9th May.

This year the show was combined with the Hostex Expo, to form the Food & Hospitality Exhibition - a much larger concern than before with more exhibitors and visitors.

Discover Specialist Food Industry Flooring at Hostex 2017

At this year’s Hostex trade expo, Flowcrete South Africa will be showcasing its range of high performance flooring solutions that have been designed to overcome the challenges faced within large-scale food and beverage facilities.

 At stand N5 in Hall 3 of the event, which is taking place at Johannesburg’s Gallagher Convention Centre from 7-9 May, food industry professionals will have the opportunity to learn about flooring solutions that will comply with strict regulations while providing a clean, safe and multi-functional surface for the long term.

Bespoke Mezzanine Floor for Weylandts Furniture Store

The luxury furniture store Weylandts tasked Flowcrete South Africa with creating a floor for its new mezzanine extension that matched the existing finish across the store’s ground floor area.

Floor in Spar’s Secunda Store is Second to None

When Spar built a new store in the town of Secunda, it wanted the floor to not only provide a clean and durable surface but also to wow customers with bright colours and decorative patterns.

To create this bespoke finish, Spar worked with Flowcrete South Africa to design and install high performance floors across the main shopping area, kitchen and butchers of the SuperSpar site as well as throughout the adjoining Tops Spar liquor store.

Bakhresa’s Flour Mill Flooring Refurbishment with Flowcrete

The USD800 million food producer Bakhresa Group specified a hardwearing epoxy floor as part of its recent renovation project to turn an ageing Durban facility into a state-of-the-art flour mill.

Bakhresa knew that the floor coating would need to maintain a hygienic surface despite the challenging working conditions that are unavoidable within large-scale food production facilities, which can include heavy equipment, intense cleaning regimes, corrosive by-products, thermal shock and frequent foot traffic.

Flowcrete South Africa Appoints New Sales Director

The leading resin flooring manufacturer Flowcrete South Africa has appointed Emile Venter as its new Sales Director. 

Formerly the business’ National Sales Manager, as of the 1st June 2016 Mr Venter became responsible for Flowcrete’s continued growth in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region as well as ensuring that local market expansion plans are executed.

Flowcrete South Africa Outgrows its Cape Town Office

Flowcrete South Africa’s Cape Town site has moved to a larger facility in order to meet increasing demand for its specialist resin flooring solutions.

In November 2013 the leading flooring manufacturer expanded its existing sales branch in Cape Town by opening a warehouse and distribution facility. In May this year the success that this development led to meant that Flowcrete South Africa outgrew its original site in the city and had to move to a new location double the size of the previous one.

Durban’s Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Park Flies the Flag with its Floor

The Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust has chosen a rich orange Flowcrete floor the colour of the Indian flag, in order to create a vibrant finish in its new centre that would reflect the ethos of the site.

Located at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Park, the centre has been designed to convey the teachings of Gandhi and to serve as a tourist attraction as well as a vital space for the inner city Durban area, providing commemorative, educational, historical and heritage benefits.