Product category:
Floors
News Release from: Sika | Subject: Sikafloor 381
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 August 2005
Bright sparks at Sikafloor
A specially designed flooring system that freely conducts electricity has been produced by Sika-Armorex and installed in aircraft hangars at RAF fighter stations.
A specially designed flooring system that freely conducts electricity has been produced by Sika-Armorex and installed in aircraft hangars at RAF fighter stations The vertical take-off and landing front-line Harrier fighter jets based at RAF Cottesmore and at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire fly sorties over the UK virtually every day
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 8 Sep 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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It's when they return to the hangar after a flight that the sparks can fly.
Loaded with static electricity, the fuselage can give a jolt to maintenance staff and anyone else who touches the aircraft.
The problem has been solved by the installation of a Sikafloor system that distributes silica carbide aggregate within the epoxy resin material Sikafloor 381.
This produces a conductive floor surface that safeguards the hangar crews from static electricity shock.
Sikafloor 381 was specified as this two component, solvent free system also provides an exceptionally high degree of chemical resistance and slip resistance - two further important criteria within the RAF specification.
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