The global food industry is expanding at a rapid pace, and many companies are investing in facility expansions, new plant construction and modernization projects. With this activity, food safety is essential as companies add new flooring and drainage systems to add efficiencies and scale for growth.

Choosing the right flooring for your facility all depends on the specific needs of your operation. For Cannonbelle Cheese, this meant working with companies that are knowledgeable of its industry, skilled in execution and aware of the specific coatings required to meet regulation requirements, recommendations and industry standards.

Some years ago, the television show “Mythbusters” tested the “5-Second Rule”—a belief that food dropped on the floor can be safely picked up and eaten as long as it happens within five seconds. The team tested samples of wet pastrami and dry crackers by placing them on bacteria-infested floor tiles for two and six seconds, then did cultures to see how much bacteria formed compared to a control.

An 11-week proof of concept (POC) saw Bio-Fence antimicrobial coatings applied to the floor and lower part of walls of a hot dog peeling room in a major sausage manufacturing facility in Israel.

Denver’s first cold storage speculative development is currently under construction. 76 Freeze, a 247,032-square-foot state-of-the-art, multi-temperature facility, is scheduled for completion in October 2021. Located at 189 Bromley Business Parkway in Brighton, Colorado, the brand-new facility situated on 17 acres is strategically positioned to service Colorado’s Front Range and Rocky Mountain regions. Approximately 166,000 square feet of space in the multi-user facility has been preleased to a single tenant.