manufacturing plants floors built for Westerville
Westerville's light-industrial and manufacturing space along Schrock Road and the Industrial Parkway corridor runs CNC shops, assembly cells, and light fabrication bays that leak cutting fluid, drop tooling, and track oil across the slab all day. Bare concrete in those buildings etches where spills sit, dusts under constant traffic, and gouges where tooling lands. Smaller shops without zone striping mix forklifts and people on foot, and ESD-sensitive assembly areas get no static control on a bare slab. A chemical-resistant epoxy or ESD system seals the slab, resists the fluids your shop runs, and takes zone striping for safety. We connect Westerville plant managers with a vetted local installer who phases the install so production keeps running.
Quick facts about manufacturing plant floors
- Oils, coolants and cleaning chemicals soak into bare concrete — a chemical-resistant epoxy with an oil-tolerant primer is the baseline.
- Forklift impact and machine drops gouge the slab; a high-build body coat absorbs that abuse.
- OSHA-style zone striping separates forklift lanes from pedestrian paths and keeps traffic organized.
- Plants with hot washdowns or thermal shock need urethane cement, not standard epoxy.
- Light foot traffic in ~24 hours; full traffic in 48-72 hours.
Typical manufacturing plants projects in Westerville
These are examples of the kinds of jobs we handle — not real client cases. Your floor gets its own free walk-through and written estimate.
Schrock Road CNC machine shop
~12,000 sq ft · Day shift
- The problem
- Coolant and cutting fluid had stained and etched the slab. Tool drops had chipped the concrete, and the shop had no zone striping separating forklifts from pedestrians.
- Recommended system
- Chemical-resistant epoxy with an impact-resistant topcoat and OSHA zone striping.
- Install plan
- Grind out fluid contamination, prime, coat section by section so the shop keeps running, stripe zones after cure.
- Downtime approach
- Sectioned — one machine bay at a time, the rest stays open.
Industrial Parkway assembly plant
~25,000 sq ft · Two shifts
- The problem
- The assembly line had no ESD control, and static was damaging sensitive components. Oil from equipment had stained the equipment bays.
- Recommended system
- ESD epoxy with a conductive grid and a chemical-resistant body coat.
- Install plan
- Grind and test for moisture, install the conductive grid, coat in phases by assembly cell, stripe after cure.
- Downtime approach
- Phased by cell — one line at a time, the other keeps producing.
Light fabrication shop
~8,000 sq ft · Day shift
- The problem
- Welding spatter and heavy drops had gouged the concrete. The floor was dusting and hard to clean around the equipment.
- Recommended system
- High-build epoxy with an abrasion-resistant urethane topcoat.
- Install plan
- Grind out gouges and spatter damage, prime, coat in two sections over a weekend.
- Downtime approach
- Two sections — full traffic back Monday.
Planning your install in Westerville
Westerville light-industrial buildings are often smaller and occupied, so we work in sections rather than closing the whole shop. We sort the production sequence around your operating schedule, and because the spaces are tight, we plan equipment and forklift routing before day one. ESD and zone-striping layouts get locked in during the walk-through. Winter work is fine in a heated shop, but we verify the slab is warm enough for a solid bond. If your unit is leased, landlord approval goes in the walk-through notes.