Tapping of a ball or the prominent sound of gliding sports shoes on the floor – those sounds are either associated with long forgot memories of sport classes at school or in general a sport floor. As some will remember the old times with sometimes concrete or the first plastic flooring, not many are aware that these days a sports floor has to pass various norms, such as shock absorption, low vertical deformation and a high temperature impact resistance, before being installed.
Sports floors by Sika
The technology center in Deventer in the Netherlands combines a dedicated team of innovative specialists under one roof from R&D, production to application. With the Pulastic® brand Sika owns the leading two component polyurethane based technology within the area of sport flooring. With Pulastic® a complete range of flooring solutions can be offered not only for schools but also for high-end customers (tennis, top and multisport, fitness or sprint-tracks).
With 50 years of experience, the leading technology allows for a complete range of point, mix, area and a combi-elastic systems including an excellent durability thanks to high loading possibility and excellent impact resistances with a life
time expectancy of 25 years or more.
Purlastic® - the first choice for sustainability
Pulastic sports floors traditionally come with an elastic layer that is composed of 100% recycled tires. Besides having excellent durability properties, Sika offers to recycle the sports floors. When, after a typical life span of 25+ years, a Pulastic floor is demolished, Sika can re-granulate the floor's demolition waste and reproduce the next-elastic layer with it again. Alternatively, there is the possibility to renovate by over coating, face-lifting and upgrading .
A Pulastic ®system contains: recycled content ± 60%, renewable biobased raw materials and inert fillers, only less than 20% chemically processed or oil based raw materials and on top of it, the water-based and solvent-free materials come with very low emitting properties. Outstanding mechanical strength and outstanding wear resistance for minimum life-cycle cost and maximum usability are further characteristics that are an example for Sika’s ambition to combine performance with sustainability.
Sport flooring special (safety) properties | |
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- Shock absorption 25-75% | - Very low gloss |
- Low Vertical Deformation | - Excellent Ball bounds |
- Very Narrow slip resistance range | - Resistance against rolling loads |
- Wet slip resistance (Non EN14904) | - Resistance against permanent indentation |
- High Impact resistance at 20°C and 10°C | - Extreme flatness demands. |