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CFI Helps a Marijuana Growing Facility Get Up and Running, Despite a Surprise Problem in the Floor

For a more detailed version of this story, including how our partners at KTA-Tator identified the problem, see the article in CoatingsPro Magazine. When any facility is being converted for a new use, problems with renovating or upgrading the concrete floor can deliver a surprise if the building’s previous history isn’t fully known. The resulting failure …

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CFI Unveils Coatingstown Interactive Floor Coating Selection Tool

In Coatingstown, the concrete floors are always perfect, always protected from whatever the world throws at them. Why? Because they always have the right coating for the job. It isn’t a real place, of course, but instead is a powerful new interactive coatings selection tool. For facility owners, specifiers and contractors it’s the easy way …

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CFI Video Series Helps Concrete Coating Contractors Avoid Failures

Failures are one of the biggest challenges concrete floor coating contractors face. Even when contractors are not to blame, a floor coating failure can be financially catastrophic. To help contractors avoid big problems, Coatings for Industry, Inc. (CFI), has launched a video series aimed at providing information and solid advice based on decades of experience. …

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CFI’s WearCOAT® 720 and 735 WB Urethane Concrete is More Moisture Tolerant in an Environmentally Sustainable Solution

CFI’s new WearCOAT® 720 and WearCOAT® 735 urethane concrete floor repair systems provide a durable, moisture-tolerant, sustainable solution for fixing or leveling cracked, damaged floors prior to applying resinous floor coating systems. They are truly next-gen products made for demanding environments like floors for labs, dispensaries, cold storerooms and freezers, kitchens and other food prep/processing areas. Replacing the older …

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Using Moisture-Mitigating Primers on Green Concrete

We frequently asked about using our moisture mitigating primer on old, moist concrete and new “green” concrete. Believe it or not, those two situations are similar, bringing into play both primer choice and cure time.

Why Is There Always a Battle Between Traditional Floor Coatings vs Low VOC?

Over the past several decades, environmentalists and safety professionals have sought to reduce or eliminate products and coatings with high Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). Everyone wants to be professionally and socially responsible, including Coatings For Industry, Inc., but we and most other manufacturers sell products with and without VOCs. There’s a reason for that.