Flooring applications

For electrical insulation china clay is commonly employed whilst various calcium carbonates (whiting, ground limestone, precipitated calcium carbonate, and coated calcium carbonate) are used for general purpose work. Also occasionally employed are talc, light magnesium carbonate, barytes (barium sulphate) and the silicas and silicates. For flooring applications asbestos has been an important filler. The effect of fillers on some properties of plasticised PVC are shown in Figure 12.21 (a-d). 

Soil - Floor wax, oil, grease, particulates Surface - Polymeric flooring Application Method - Wipe or mop... 

Despite the general move towards use of fossil hydrocarbon feedstocks, some plant-derived materials have continued to provide economic or technical benefits that ensure they remain the preferred source of raw materials for industry. For example, cotton still accounts for 38% of all textile production due to its airflow- and temperature-regulating capabilities, which are difficult or costly to replicate with man-made fibres. Linseed oil remains a key feedstock in surface coating and linoleum flooring applications. Plant oils are still widely used in the oleochemicals sector, where coconut and palm oils are widely used in detergent... 

Atlanta, Ga., 26th-30th April 1998, p.3272-7. 012 STAIN RESISTANCE IN RESILIENT SHEET FLOORING APPLICATIONS ROLE OF THE PLASTICISER... 

Stain resistance, or more accurately appearance retention, is a complex phenomenon in resilient sheet flooring applications. The process can be complex involving the plasticiser, the overall toughness (or abrasion resistance) of the wear layer and the thermoplastic nature of plasticised PVC. The plasticiser-related portions of the stain resistance phenomenon are explored. Data are presented to illustrate relationships between stain resistance and plasticiser structure, concentration, extraction resistance, volatility and solubility parameter. 9 refs. 

Server of the Shop Floor application on which is installed the Production Data Base... 

Cmtinuous Laminated Board. Laminated board with incombustible facing materials (glass fiber, ceramic, alumina-paper), or kraft paper is also widely used as a thermal-insulating building material. For example, laminated board is used for roof, ceiling, wall, and floor applications and for refrigeration storehouses. For producing continuous... 

The suitability of chip form for sub-flooring and flooring applications was also thought worthy of consideration. In this case resistance to impact is of prime importance, for this reason test specimens, as shown in Figure 5, were prepared and impact tests were carried out. 

PVC and vinyl-asbestos tiles are found to be the most economic materials for use in flooring applications. The most widely used synthetic flooring material is produced by calendering compounds... 

Chance When faced with repairing this floor, you feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unstructured information. There is no transparency in the market. But if you cannot form your own opinion, you are dependent on people you trust, or else you are at the mercy of chance, e g. whatever colourful brochures the postman happens to deliver to your desk. Nobody tells you that there are only a small number of floor applicators that have been on the market for more than ten years. Specialist firms come and go if they are not well managed, or if they are unlucky... 

For flexible sheeting, as single ply roofing use, PVC and ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) are expected to be the main polymers used. For wall and floor coverings PVC is still expected to continue to dominate the construction market. PVC will be the main plastic used for pipe and conduit, wire and cable, profiles and flooring applications, while EPS will be mostly used in insulation. 

Floors and Pavements The chemical resistance and overall improvement in the physical and mechanical properties of PPCC makes it a suitable material especially for industrial floor applications where chemical spills and heavy traffic are the typical problems encountered. 

PVC-P, on average, contains 55 phr (parts per weight per hundred of PVC) plasticiser. PVC has the ability to accept high levels of plasticiser (100 phr and even above). The most common plasticisers that are used today in PVC are DOP (nsed in the mannfacture of flooring and carpet tiles), DEHP (used mainly for any flexible PVC applications), di-isodecyl phthalate (DIDP), used mainly in wire and cable production, carpet backing and pool liners, di-isononyl phthalate (DINP), and butyl benzyl phthalate (used mainly in vinyl tile production), and di-n-hexyl phthalate (used in flooring applications). There are also several plasticisers that are specific for almost no toxicity, such as tri-(2-ethylhexyl) trimellitate (TEHTM), a polymeric adipate, and acetyl triburyl citrate (ATBC), which are economically unfeasible for their industrial applications, i.e., TEHTM is some three times as expensive as DEHP, and polymeric adipate four times as expensive. Analytical techniques are available to detect traces of plasticisers at the parts per billion level [43]. 

Chlorinated paraffins (mainly CPVC) are widely used in PVC to have greater resistance to ignition and combustion than general purpose plasticisers. Hovewer, the effects of chloroparaffins on health is still a controversial issue and its use as flame retarders in PVC applications for flooring are decreasing [41]. For cushion vinyl flooring applications, several phthalates such as DOP are used due to its cost and the safety provided, BBP or di-isoheptyl phthalate as well as plastisols of PVC plasticised with 2,2,4-trimethylpentan-1,3-diol di-isobutyrate are also used. 

Flooring application Vianova Resins Viapa L700 299... 

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