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Twintec – Superflat Flooring Specialists
VNA racking requires a very flat floor to operate efficiently and safely. All too often warehouse floors are constructed and then require extensive grinding within the aisles to achieve the flatness tolerance specified. Twintec will design and construct a DM1 floor slab to tolerance maintaining all the advantages of a large panel‘ jointless’ SFRC floor slab. Twintec’ s competence was recently demonstrated at a new logistics facility in Qatar where the independent DM1 flatness survey reports an overall 99.4 % compliance with the required specification, making it the flattest large panel‘ jointless’ floor slab in the GCC. The project has 18m high racking and floor panel sizes up to 32.6m x 32.5m. Twintec designed and constructed the floor slab utilising high tensile strength steel fibres, with no sawcut joints and no remedial grinding required.
This would be impossible for general contractors even with‘ expert’ supervision and remains challenging for specialist flooring contractors, generally necessitating substantial remedial grinding within the aisles to meet the MHE operational standards. Twintec’ s Commercial Director, Tom
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