Food & Beverage
Maintaining the integrity of food and beverage facilities is essential for ensuring safety and operational efficiency. Areas such as cold storage, high-traffic zones, processing units, and water treatment sections each present distinct challenges that require specialized maintenance approaches. Indcon Maintenance offers tailored solutions designed to address these specific needs, helping to preserve the functionality and safety of your facility.
In cold storage environments, for example, the application of appropriate joint fillers can prevent damage from constant forklift traffic, while rapid-setting repair materials allow for prompt patching without disrupting operations. High-traffic areas benefit from durable flooring solutions that withstand continuous use, and processing zones require hygienic surfaces that comply with strict industry standards. By focusing on the unique requirements of each area, Indcon Maintenance makes sure food and beverage facilities remain in optimal condition, supporting both safety and productivity.
Cold Storage
Cold storage facilities require maintenance solutions that withstand temperature fluctuations and moisture exposure. Indcon Maintenance provides durable products for cold storage environments, including crack fillers, joint sealants, and protective coatings. Our solutions help maintain structural integrity and safety in refrigerated and frozen storage areas.
Applications
- Joint Filling
- Joint Repair
- Patching at Low Temperatures
Joint Filling
Preventing damage to joints in cold storage floors starts with the right joint filler. A properly applied joint filler creates a firm, seamless surface that allows forklift wheels to glide smoothly across joints, reducing wear and tear. Without a filler, forklift wheels can repeatedly strike the opposite side of the joint, leading to spalling in smaller joints and severe damage in larger ones.
The good news? Advanced joint fillers are specifically designed to perform in cold storage environments. These materials can be applied while your coolers or freezers remain at their regular operating temperatures, eliminating the need for costly shutdowns or temperature adjustments.
By using a high-quality joint filler, you can protect your floors from further damage, extend their lifespan, and maintain a safe and efficient facility.
Joint Repair
In cold storage environments, joint repairs must be addressed immediately upon discovery. Allowing moisture to penetrate a damaged joint and move beyond the freezing temperatures can lead to serious issues, including structural damage and the growth of harmful microorganisms. Acting quickly and using the right materials is crucial to maintaining the integrity of your facility.
To ensure a successful repair, it’s essential to restore the joint as close to its original condition as possible. This may involve addressing one side of the joint or both, but it’s critical to reform or re-cut the joint to maintain its function as originally designed. Proper joint repair preserves the structure’s ability to expand and contract while preventing further damage.
For the best results, opt for a super-fast-setting cement material specifically designed for low-temperature applications. These materials allow for quick, durable repairs without the need to raise the temperature in your cold storage area, minimizing downtime and disruption.
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Patching at Low Temperatures
In food and beverage processing plants, cold storage areas are critical to operations, often featuring large, concrete-floored spaces that endure daily heavy forklift traffic. However, unlike standard plant floors, damaged concrete in cold storage must be repaired immediately to prevent the growth of harmful microorganisms like bacteria and mold. The challenge? These areas are typically kept at subzero temperatures, making conventional repair methods difficult.
Traditionally, the approach has been to take a cooler out of service temporarily to perform repairs. While ideal in theory, real-world conditions often lead to compressed schedules, minimal prep time, and rushed applications, resulting in suboptimal outcomes. What’s needed are advanced products and techniques that allow repairs without taking the cooler out of service.
Innovative repair materials are now available that can be placed and cured in extremely low-temperature environments. The key to maintaining a safe and efficient facility is addressing minor damage as soon as it appears, preventing it from escalating. For more extensive repairs, partnering with experts who specialize in cold storage concrete repair ensures the job is done efficiently and effectively, even in freezing conditions.
With the right materials and expertise, you can maintain your operations without disruption.
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Traffic and Walking Areas
Applications
- Floor Joint Maintenance
- Patching High-Traffic Areas
- Non-Slip Coating
- Asphalt Patching
- View All Applications
Floor Joint Maintenance
Maintaining smooth, uninterrupted material movement in your plant is essential for efficient operations. While concrete floors might not demand your daily attention, their condition can significantly impact productivity without you realizing it.
Unfilled control joints and poorly sealed expansion joints are often the root causes of damage that slows down forklift traffic. Forklift drivers may be forced to reduce speed to avoid the jarring impact of damaged joints, which not only slows operations but can also lead to product loss from sudden jolts. Addressing these issues promptly can improve traffic flow, protect your equipment, and prevent further damage.
To repair joints effectively, choose the right materials and methods for the job. Cement-based repair materials work well for control joints, while epoxies are ideal for expansion joints. Both options offer durable solutions that minimize the time required to divert traffic. For best results, ensure that the joint is restored to its original dimensions before re-filling or re-sealing.
If caught early enough, minor spalling can often be resolved simply by re-filling the joint, preventing the issue from escalating. Regular maintenance of floor joints not only keeps your plant running efficiently but also helps protect your floors, equipment, and products from unnecessary wear and tear.
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Patching High-Traffic Areas
In high-traffic areas critical to your operation, maintaining smooth and functional surfaces is non-negotiable. Whether it’s a dock ramp, pothole, or expansion joint, even minor damage can disrupt the flow of raw materials and finished products, delaying shipments and impacting your bottom line. For businesses where every minute counts and shelf life is at stake, timely and effective repairs are essential.
The key to minimizing downtime and ensuring long-lasting results is addressing damage early, before it worsens. Early repairs reduce the impact on traffic flow and make it easier to restore the area efficiently. Equally important is choosing the right material — one that not only minimizes application and curing time but can also withstand the same stresses that caused the damage.
For areas with heavy impacts, epoxy mortars provide the strength and durability needed for joint repairs. In wet environments, select materials specifically designed for moisture tolerance. Fast-curing cement mortars can reopen damaged areas to traffic in as little as one hour, while quick-set crack fillers allow for traffic within 10 minutes, ensuring minimal disruption to your operations.
With the right products and a proactive approach, you can keep your facility running smoothly and on schedule, delivering products to market without delays.
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Non-Slip Coating
High-traffic areas in and around cold storage facilities often experience significant moisture buildup on floors, creating hazards for both forklifts and employees. Wet floors can lead to slips, falls, and reduced traction for vehicles, posing safety risks and operational challenges. Implementing non-slip solutions is essential to maintaining a safe and efficient work environment.
The best approach depends on the specific location and the time available for application. Ideally, you would take half of the traffic area out of service, allow it to dry completely over a few days, and apply a multi-coat epoxy system. This system provides a durable, long-lasting non-slip surface once it cures — usually in about a day.
However, when extended downtime isn’t an option, faster solutions are available. Quick-application coatings with non-slip additives can be installed with minimal preparation and curing time, making them suitable for facilities that need to remain operational during repairs.
Asphalt Patching
Being good at patching your asphalt roadways is something that’s not going to win any awards. But, it sure will keep the complaints at bay. Most of the time you have a cold patch bag material that’s approved for temporary patching. The problem is, it’s very temporary. If the conditions aren’t right and the tamping isn’t near perfect, you’re going to go back to that same hole again. To be the best option a material would have to address each of the following criteria.
- All-Season – Works in all seasons and all climates.
- Applied in water – Can be added to water-filled potholes and areas.
- Bonds Permanently – To asphalt, concrete, steel, wood, and other hard surfaces.
- Accepts Traffic Immediately – No drying or curing time.
- 2 Year Shelf Life – Always ready. Keep on hand with no waste.
- Extreme Versatility – Handles your toughest applications.
- High Workability – Open. Pour. Done. Easy to use with no mixing or preparation.
- Proven Most Durable – Per Federal Strategic Highway Research Project “SHRP” Test.
- Thin Application – Can be applied as thin as 1/4 inch.
Perma-Patch has been trusted for over 30 years by professionals to make high-quality, permanent pavement repairs while minimizing traffic interruptions.
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Processing
Applications
- Active Leak Stopping
- Trench Repair
- Area Flooring
Active Leak Stopping
In the food processing industry, water is everywhere—used during processing and cleaning, it inevitably finds its way into every corner and unsealed joint. If given an opportunity, water can travel under flooring, around drains, and beneath trenches and sumps, slowly undermining your plant’s infrastructure.
Signs of water-related undermining include sinking floor drains, cracking concrete slabs, and scoured trench walls. Addressing these issues promptly is critical to restoring your facility’s integrity. The first step is making the necessary repairs to return these areas to their original condition.
Equally important is eliminating the conditions that caused the undermining in the first place. Identifying and sealing cracks or other pathways where water infiltrates is essential to prevent future damage. With proactive maintenance and the right repair strategies, you can protect your plant’s infrastructure and ensure long-term operational efficiency.
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Trench Repair
Trenches in food processing facilities endure constant stress from daily operations. These essential structures handle everything from blood and juices during processing to hot water used in routine cleaning. Add the constant traffic from carts and lifts rolling over them, and it’s no surprise that trench edges often suffer from chipping, cracking, or even sinking into undermined substrates.
The relentless exposure to moisture makes trench repair particularly challenging. Trench areas are almost always wet, and getting them completely dry for coating or repairs can be nearly impossible. For this reason, it’s crucial to use repair materials and coatings specifically designed for wet or even submerged surfaces.
Innovative repair materials, such as moisture-tolerant cement-based products and underwater-grade epoxy systems, offer durable solutions for addressing trench damage. These materials allow you to restore trench edges, reinforce weakened areas, and apply protective coatings without the need for extensive drying, ensuring minimal disruption to operations.
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Area Flooring
Process area flooring in food-related plants faces unique challenges, particularly due to rigorous wash-down regimes involving extremely hot water. Traditionally, brick flooring with a membrane has been the gold standard for durability and reliability. While this approach offers exceptional protection and longevity, its high installation cost often makes it less accessible for certain facilities.
For coating or repairing these areas, urethane cement flooring is a more cost-effective and versatile solution. Unlike epoxy coatings, which are prone to cracking under extreme temperatures, urethane cements are designed to withstand the thermal stresses and harsh conditions of food processing environments.
Urethane cements are available in a variety of applications to suit different needs:
- Trowelled Down: Ideal for high-durability areas requiring a textured finish.
- Self-Leveling: Provides a smooth, even surface with excellent wear resistance.
- Broadcast: Adds texture for slip resistance while maintaining strength.
- Slurry: Efficient for covering large areas with seamless protection.
Whether you’re installing a new floor or repairing an existing one, urethane cement offers the flexibility, durability, and thermal resistance needed for process area flooring.
Water Treatment and Rendering
Applications
- Abrasion Resistant Lining
Abrasion Resistant Lining
The trenches in your process areas play a critical role in collecting waste generated during operations. This waste often contains abrasive materials such as bone fragments and grit, which can scour the concrete surfaces of trenches, particularly at turns or where they empty into a sump. Over time, this wear can compromise the integrity of the trenches, leading to costly repairs and disruptions.
Applying an abrasion-resistant lining is an effective way to prevent or slow down these damaging effects. These coatings form a protective layer that shields the trench sides and bottom from the harsh impacts of abrasive waste.
However, in areas experiencing severe abrasion, where coatings fail shortly after application, a more robust solution may be required. Ceramic or carbide-filled pastes provide a thick, highly durable surface capable of withstanding extreme wear. These specialized materials are ideal for the most heavily worn sections, ensuring long-lasting protection and reducing maintenance frequency.
With the right lining, you can extend the lifespan of your trenches and maintain a smooth, efficient process flow.
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