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Twintec – Superflat Flooring Specialists

VNA racking requires a very flat floor to operate efficiently and safely . All too often warehouse floors are constructed and then require extensive grinding within the aisles to achieve the flatness tolerance specified . Twintec will design and construct a DM1 floor slab to tolerance maintaining all the advantages of a large panel ‘ jointless ’ SFRC floor slab . Twintec ’ s competence was recently demonstrated at a new logistics facility in Qatar where the independent DM1 flatness survey reports an overall 99.4 % compliance with the required specification , making it the flattest large panel ‘ jointless ’ floor slab in the GCC . The project has 18m high racking and floor panel sizes up to 32.6m x 32.5m . Twintec designed and constructed the floor slab utilising high tensile strength steel fibres , with no sawcut joints and no remedial grinding required .

This would be impossible for general contractors even with ‘ expert ’ supervision and remains challenging for specialist flooring contractors , generally necessitating substantial remedial grinding within the aisles to meet the MHE operational standards . Twintec ’ s Commercial Director , Tom
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