Kalman Floor Company will be exhibiting at this year’s WASTECON show August 23-25 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Kalman sales engineers will be at the show to discuss long lasting floor solutions for solid waste facilities in booth 249 in the exhibit hall. Kalman will also be sponsoring the Transfer Station Design and Expansion technical education sessions.
WASTECON is conference hosted by the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) for solid waste professionals. SWANA serves municipal solid waste professionals throughout North America with conferences, certifications, publications and technical training courses.
Kalman Floor Company installs long lasting, durable, abrasion resistant industrial concrete floors in waste facilities. Since 1916, Kalman has been working side-by-side with owners/municipalities, architects, design-builders and contractors to provide specialty concrete floors for waste facilities and other heavy duty industrial applications. Kalman has installations in nearly every major city in North America, including Monterey, California’s waste management district’s, MRF which lasted 10 years longer than originally expected. Find out how Kalman can help your facility, contact a sales engineer today.
Solid waste facility floors typically last five years before replacement is required at great expense and operational downtime. At the Monterey (CA) Regional Waste Management District MRF the floor lasted 10 years longer than expected saving time and money through reduced maintenance costs.
In 1996, the Monterey Regional Waste Management District in Marina, California selected Kalman Floor Company to install a 40,000 square foot materials recovery facility (MRF) floor anticipating replacement in five years. In 2001 the Monterey MRF called Kalman to reinstall.
Kalman inspected the floor there was no need for replacement. Over the next few years, Kalman and the owner monitored the floor’s performance. Eight years went by, then 10, 12 and finally after 14 years it was determined to resurface approximately one-third of the facility – there was no need to replace the entire floor or perform a full-depth removal and replacement. The same ¾ inch thick Kalman Absorption Process® concrete topping as utilized originally was used for the resurfacing.
Kalman’s Seamless Concrete® slab and Absorption Process® floor topping stood up to the abuse of tracked vehicles and was still in working order. It is well known in the industry that Kalman’s floors are much more abrasion resistant, more dense and have 80% fewer joints than a conventional concrete floor. These qualities make for a low maintenance, cost effective operation with higher productivity. Contact a sales engineer today to learn how Kalman can help you and your facility.
