Tuesday, 02 December 2008 12:25

PRESIDENT: Kazimierz Mastalski
OPERATIONS: Construction Industry
ESTABLISHED: 1994 
www.ppp-posadzki.com.pl


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Posadzki Przemysłowe Polska (PPP) is an expert in designing and laying top quality concrete floors, subfloors as well as other kinds of floors and concrete surfaces for access roads and different sites. The company provides, first and foremost, solutions to users looking for the highest quality and durability floors that meet even the most demanding special purpose criteria. With its highly qualified and experienced employees, PPP is capable of taking a wide array of tailor-made orders from investors and general building contractors working on their projects both in Poland and abroad.

General information

The company was established in Kraków, Poland, in 1994. From incipient stages of its activity, it has specialized in the design and laying of various types of industrial concrete floors which are float finished, reinforced with mesh or steel fibers, surface hardened or made as surface layers for other finishing layers. An important milestone occurred in the year 2001 when PPP finished laying a floor that was made in accordance with the British norm TR 34 CAT I. The floor, which had 10, 000 square metres, was laid in warehouses of the chemical plant Henkel located in Racibórz. It was compliant with very strict surface smoothness parameters which had to be observed in the so-called high storage facilities, where things are stored above the height of 12 metres. In the facilities of Henkel the storage height is 15 metres. This kind of floor ensures a faultless operation of high reach forklift trucks which move along induction wires fitted in the floor. The implementation of the method earned the company a leading position in Poland when it comes to laying this type of floors. It was a successful innovative undertaking confirmed by the British company Monofloor Technology, which conducted a surface smoothness test on site. The achievement was commented on by the president of PPP in the following way: ‘The jointless floor which was laid in accordance with the British norm TR 34 CAT I was a great challenge for us. It required a lot of work and effort from all employees. We are, therefore, very proud of the fact that we managed to become part of a small group of European companies which offer this type of flooring.’ PPP has provided services to numerous companies, investors etc. The floors made by PPP can be seen within Poland, e.g. in Teresin near Warsaw, Sady near Poznań, Piotrków Trybunalski, Bielany Wrocławskie, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Racibórz, Mysłowice, Chorzów, Błonie, Sochaczew, Pakość, Gdańsk as well as abroad, e.g. in Ricany near Praha (The Czech Republic), Krivań (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary) and Bochum, Herten, Herbrechtingen, Wetzlar and Heilbronn (Germany). Since 1994 the firm has made approximately 3 million square metres of floors in nearly 300 different facilities. The most noteworthy are high tolerance floors that were made in accordance with the British norms TR 034 in Racibórz (10,000m2), Gądki (12,000m2) Bielsko-Biała (5,000m2) and Gdańsk (2,000 m2). The professional approach and high quality were noticed not only by customers. The firm was awarded with several prestigious distinctions in the meantime. In 2001 it was granted European Medal for industrial monolithic floor (compliant with DIN 18202), followed by two more European Medals: in 2002 for jointless floor (compliant with TR34 CAT I) and in 2005 for monolithic industrial floor. The economic development did not come unnoticed too. The business grew steadily on the construction market, expanding the business offer and winning the customer confidence. The growing popularity of services provided by PPP paved the way for the famous Gazele Biznesu (Gazelle of Business) award which the company was honoured with in 2003 and 2004 as well as in 2007 and 2008 respectively. To cut a long story short, the firm’s policy and numerous references and awards seem to be an excellent confirmation that the main objective of PPP is the high quality and reliability.

Offer

The company’s offer is addressed primarily to investors and general building contractors who search for excellence in industrial flooring. The floors are geared towards customers’ special needs and demands. They are always designed and made in order to meet special criteria for use in industrial buildings such as trade halls, manufacturing houses, storage buildings, loading rooms, parking spaces, petrol stations, access roads, airports and other.

The present offer includes:

- Industrial floors reinforced with mesh or steel fibres;
- Industrial floors with hardened surfaces and cut expansion joints;
- Industrial floors with hardened surfaces without cut expansion joints, so-called jointless floors;
- Industrial floors with surfaces hardened using the ‘wet-on-wet’ technique (hardening of surface 8-15 mm thick) or made on an adhesive layer;
- Industrial floors in different colours;
- Industrial floors with high performance tolerance (compliant with TR34 or DIN 15185);
- Concrete surfaces of squares and access roads;
- Concrete subfloors for tiles, carpets, epoxy or polyurethane floors;

The floors are usually made in accordance with DIN 18202. In special cases PPP offers also enhanced performance industrial floors which are made in accordance with TR34 or DIN 15185. Hiring PPP, as the company assures, equals the reliable service and high quality.

Technology

Nowadays, the company can speak of success. It did not come overnight, though. As the authorities of PPP admit, the success was achieved chiefly due to the implementation of many advanced technologies that are used for laying the floors. The most important technologies are those used for jointless floors and enhanced performance floors, i.e.

- technology for securing edges of day fields of floors with specialists PERMABAN expansion profiles;
- technology for dosing steel fibres using an integration machine blowing in fibres directly to the concrete vehicle;
- technology for laying concrete on very large fields during one day – up to 3000 m2; 
- technology of laying and floating of concrete in a manner allowing for the achievement of high surface precision in line with TR 034 or DIN 15185;
- technology for strengthening the top surfaces in areas of high traffic intensity;
- technology of ‘wet-on-wet’ hardening, namely laying hard 8-15 mm thick jointless floor.

Each and every floor has a different purpose. Therefore, PPP is always willing to offer professional advice when the customer needs to choose a type of floor. The company can boast its own quality assurance system that was developed specifically to ensure that industrial floors are purpose-made and draw upon the best possible methods and products. On the whole, a project starts with drawing floor plans that match its intended use as well as requirements and demands of an investor, building contractor or architect. The plan is subsequently consulted with the customer before it can be approved. Then, an appropriate concrete mixture is selected in the concrete provider’s laboratory. Experts, who work together in a team supervised by a site manager, lay the floor both during the day and at night. Concrete works need to be performed quickly and carefully, so workers must have not only special skills and abilities, but they also have to be able to co-operate with other members. Only then can such a group work as one unit. Moreover, the site manager is at the customer’s disposal, so any changes and alterations can be effected during implementation. The floors are made using Laser Screed machines. They allow one team to lay up to 3000 square metres of concrete floor in a day. The floor made using the monolithic method is finished in one technological operation after concrete has been laid. Obsolete methods, by way of comparison, required the concrete to be laid in layers. The monolithic method is, therefore, very fast and effective. A hardener (e.g. Qualidur, Neodur, Panbex) can be applied on fresh concrete to create a layer which is highly resistant to abrasion.

Quality assurance

The high quality of services offered by PPP is a matter of combining several qualities. On the one hand, the company has fifteen years of experience in providing flooring solutions. During this period it developed advanced technologies and methods. It has cutting-edge machines and equipment for laying, leveling and finishing concrete, including Laser Screed machines for concrete laying, as well as machines for concrete floating, and equipment used for application hardener. On the other hand, the top quality is ensured owing to highly qualified employees whose experience and reliability is frequently noticed by customers. And last but not least, the quality of products used for laying floors is a very important factor, therefore PPP uses only reliable suppliers that fill the ranks of the leading Polish and foreign manufacturers. All products used for investment delivery feature relevant quality certificates, technical approvals, hygienic and steelworks attestations.