Ahlatci Gold Refinery
Industrial · 2023
Industrial epoxy across processing floor — 4,800 m²
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Flooring Systems · Downtown Dubai
Epoxy Flooring in Downtown Dubai sits at the intersection of brand-certified applicator discipline and Dubai's tier-1 hospitality and luxury-residential heart, anchored around the Burj Khalifa. From Burj Khalifa and Dubai Mall to the back-of-house surfaces nobody photographs — same Mapei, Laticrete, AkzoNobel and X-Calibur systems, same TDS coverage rates, same signed-off Inspection Request documentation. We mobilise to Downtown Dubai from our Al Quoz office on the same programme as anywhere else in the UAE.
Approved applicator · brand-certified
Downtown Dubai · in focus
Downtown Dubai is the tier-1 hospitality and luxury-residential heart of the city — anchored by the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Mall and a cluster of premium hotels and serviced residences. Finish trades here meet hotel-operator standards on residential briefs and consultant-pack discipline on commercial fit-outs. We've worked under The Address group's downtown developments and across multiple mixed-use towers in the Burj-precinct envelope.
Local context
What we do
A warehouse forklift floor and a kitchen prep floor and an ESD assembly floor all use "epoxy" — but they're four different system specs with four different build-ups. We apply Mapei Mapefloor for self-levelling and decorative, X-Calibur for heavy-duty industrial, Mapei Ucrete for food-grade PU-cement, and Mapei Mapecoat ESD for static-controlled environments.
The reason floors fail in the UAE isn't usually the resin — it's the substrate moisture, the wrong primer, or the wrong system for the chemical exposure. We test first. We never quote without seeing the slab.
Choose the system
Six environments, six systems. The recommended one for each is what we'd specify after a site survey on a comparable brief.
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Recommended system
MAPEI
Ucrete UD200
PU-cement, 6–9 mm trowel
Indicative spec
Got a chemical-resistance schedule or BOQ? Send it over and we'll match the system family to the line items.
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Lap & overlap discipline
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Ahlatci Gold Refinery
Industrial · 2023
Industrial epoxy across processing floor — 4,800 m²
Specification
Wear life varies by system: 10–15 years for light commercial · 8–12 years for industrial · 15+ years for PU-cement food-grade. Slip rating from R9 (smooth top sealer) to R13 (aggressive broadcast).
Full chemical-resistance schedule on the manufacturer TDS — we send the relevant TDS with every quotation so the consultant can audit before award.
Wear life
Slip rating
Frequently asked
Anywhere from 0.3 mm (roller coating) to 9 mm (PU-cement). The thickness is dictated by the spec, the substrate condition and the loading — not by preference. We confirm thickness in the method statement before mobilisation.
Self-levelling epoxy is a poured, gauge-raked resin body at 2–5 mm — best for clean industrial, commercial and decorative floors. PU-cement (e.g. Mapei Ucrete) is a polyurethane–cement hybrid trowelled at 6–9 mm — designed for thermal-shock and chemical-aggressive environments like food prep, dairy, brewing and cold rooms.
Usually not. Tile bonds to the slab through a thin-set; epoxy bonds best to the slab directly. We remove the tile, repair the slab and shotblast before priming. We'd rather lose a day to demolition than warranty-replace a delamination later.
Walk-on at 24 hr for most epoxies, 12 hr for fast-cure systems. Light service at 72 hr. Full chemical resistance at 7 days. PU-cement reaches walk-on at 12–24 hr and full service at 5–7 days.
PU-cement is rated for steam cleaning and thermal shock; epoxies are not. For kitchens, cold rooms and dairies we always specify a Ucrete-grade PU-cement, never standard epoxy.
Typically 10⁶ to 10⁹ Ω resistance to ground, measured per ANSI/ESD S20.20 or IEC 61340. We use Mapei Mapecoat ESD with a conductive primer + grounding strap network laid before the body coat.
Moisture-tolerant primer (e.g. Mapei Primer MF or Eporip) where the slab reads 4–6 % MC. Above 6 % MC we install a moisture-blocking epoxy membrane below the primer — the schedule of works adjusts by 1–2 days.
DIN 51130 slip-rating: R9 is shallow (offices, dry retail), R10–R11 is general (commercial wet zones), R12–R13 is aggressive (kitchens, factory wash-downs). We broadcast aggregate or specify a textured top sealer to hit the rating in the spec.
Standard epoxy yellows under direct UV — add a UV-stable PU topcoat (Mapei Mapecoat TNS UV or X-Calibur PolyU). For atrium and showroom floors we always specify the UV topcoat in the method statement.
Indicative ranges only — every job is quoted after a site survey. Roller-applied: AED 90–150 / m². SL epoxy 3 mm: AED 160–260 / m². Decorative flake / metallic: AED 220–360 / m². PU-cement 6 mm: AED 360–560 / m². Add for difficult access or night-only programmes.
Related disciplines
Free site survey across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. Written quotation back within 48 working hours.
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