Industrial Floor Coating in West Chicago, IL

Industrial-grade epoxy floor coatings for West Chicago production plants, workshops and warehouses: a seamless, chemical-resistant floor with the build matched to the traffic each area takes, installed by our own crew.
Yellow and black safety markings on an industrial floor

What makes a coating industrial grade?

An industrial floor coating is built for traffic and chemicals that would break down a decorative floor. It starts with a ground slab and a primer that fuses into the concrete, then an industrial-grade epoxy base coat, then a clear topcoat that takes the wear. Where the duty is heaviest, the epoxy is built thicker. The layers bond into one seamless, non-porous floor.

We install it in West Chicago's working buildings: production plants, fabrication and machine shops, workshops, warehouses and distribution units, and the older manufacturing space that has been reworked many times. It suits any floor where forklifts, pallet trucks, oil and cleaning chemicals are part of the day, and any building where the floor has been patched so often it no longer works as one surface.

The finished floor is hard, even and bright, and it makes leaks, spills and debris easy to see and easy to clean up. Industrial floors we have coated are on our gallery.

Solid gray epoxy floor with a high-gloss finish
Red solid color floor coating in a food processing plant

Why plants coat their floors rather than replace them

When a production or warehouse floor wears out, the options are to keep patching it, to paint it or to replace it. Patching leaves a floor of different levels and textures, paint peels under hot tires and spills, and replacing the slab means stopping the operation and breaking out concrete.

A coating renews the floor without taking it out. The existing slab is ground, repaired and built on, so nothing is demolished, nothing is hauled away and the floor goes back into use far sooner than a new pour would allow.

It is also chosen for the traffic. High-build on forklift routes and chemical areas, solid color across the general floor, grind and seal in dry stores. It is a fast turnaround with minimal downtime, and it fits around your schedule rather than the other way around.

Benefits that show up on a production floor

Chemical and abrasion resistance. Industrial-grade epoxy resists oil, hydraulic fluid, coolant, cleaning chemicals and road salt, and stands up to the abrasion and impact of forklifts, pallet trucks and dropped parts. Spills stay on the surface instead of soaking in.

A seamless floor that cleans easily. There are no joints in the finish and no pores, so dirt, water, oil and bacteria have nowhere to collect. A scrubber or a mop with soap and water keeps it clean, and there is no stripping or waxing to plan for.

Protection for the slab, for years. The coating keeps moisture, oil and salt out of the concrete, so the slab stops deteriorating underneath. On a properly prepared floor it can still look good fifteen to twenty years on, and the topcoat resists fading and yellowing in the meantime.

Three floor systems for production and warehousing

Solid color epoxy. The general-purpose industrial floor: a uniform color under a clear topcoat, hard-wearing and easy to clean, and the choice for most production halls and warehouses. A light tone lifts a dark building, and safety markings can be added as an option.

High-build epoxy. A heavier epoxy build for forklift traffic and chemical duty, laid on the main routes, turning areas, loading doors and wherever chemicals reach the floor as a matter of routine. It puts the most material where the floor takes the most punishment.

Grind and seal. Ground concrete closed with a clear sealer, with no coating on top. It stops dust and makes the slab non-porous at a lower cost, and suits dry storage, parts rooms and any area where a coating is more than the floor needs.

How we get the concrete ready

Grinding is the first step on every floor and the one that decides how long it lasts. Diamond grinders remove old coatings, paint, oil, tire marks and laitance, and open the concrete so the primer can bond into it. On older production floors that have been coated before, every trace of the earlier coating comes off.

Cracks, holes and spalls are opened out, cleaned and filled flush, along with the bolt holes and cut-outs left where plant has been moved. Control joints are treated so the edges stop breaking up and wheels roll across them smoothly.

Patched areas at different levels are ground and filled to one plane, and the grind is taken to the walls, columns and plinths so the coating has clean edges to finish against. A cove at the wall is an option for wash-down areas.

Diamond grinding a concrete slab before coating

The installation, from primer to wear layer

The primer goes down first and fuses into the ground concrete, giving the coating a bond that will not peel. Every layer that follows is built on it, so it is rolled across the whole floor, including the areas that will be built up as high-build.

Then the pigmented epoxy base coat is applied, thicker in the high-build areas and at standard thickness elsewhere, followed on solid color floors by a second coat of color. A grind and seal area has no coating stage; the clear sealer is applied to the clean slab.

A clear, industrial-grade topcoat finishes every coated floor and acts as the wear layer, taking the traffic, chemicals and cleaning. An anti-slip additive can be broadcast into it wherever the floor runs wet.

Solid gray industrial epoxy floor in a warehouse

Plant and warehouse floors along the West Chicago corridor

The buildings in West Chicago's industrial corridor run from older manufacturing and workshop space to newer distribution units. Older production floors have usually been coated at least once and patched around plant that has since moved, while newer distribution slabs are bigger, with traffic concentrated onto defined routes. We coat floors of both kinds across West Chicago and the surrounding DuPage suburbs.

We work out of our shop in Roselle and install with our own crew rather than subcontracted labor. The company is owned and operated by a Marine Corps veteran, and we stand behind our floors with an extended warranty on our craftsmanship.

Arrange a free visit in West Chicago

The visit is free and commits you to nothing. We come out, walk the building, look at the slab and where the forklifts and chemicals go, recommend solid color, high-build or grind and seal for each area, and quote the job. Call (630) 206-5602 or email info@evolveconcretecoating.com to arrange a visit. We answer Monday to Sunday, 9 AM to 6 PM.

Areas We Serve

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