Produce Flooring Solutions | PumaCRETE
Ensure the highest standards of hygiene, safety, and durability in your produce processing facility with PumaCRETE produce flooring systems. Our seamless epoxy and urethane concrete floors are designed to handle wet conditions, acidic residues, and heavy foot traffic, while maintaining compliance with FSMA, USDA, and HACCP requirements.
Why Choose PumaCRETE for Produce Facilities?
Produce processing areas require floors that are slip-resistant, easy to clean, and durable. PumaCRETE flooring systems provide:
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Seamless & Hygienic Surfaces — Reduces bacterial growth and simplifies sanitation.
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Chemical Resistance — Handles acidic residues from fruits and vegetables.
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Slip-Resistant Surfaces — Protects workers in wet, high-traffic areas.
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Durable & Long-Lasting — Withstands forklifts, carts, and high foot traffic.
Recommended Flooring Systems
Washing & Sorting Areas
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Urethane concrete or epoxy mortar systems with integrated coved bases for optimal sanitation.
Packaging & Storage Zones
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Slip-resistant epoxy or urethane systems suitable for pallet jacks and forklifts.
Cold Storage & Chilling Rooms
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Thermal- and moisture-resistant epoxy systems capable of handling temperature variations.
Installation Overview
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Surface Preparation — Grinding, shot-blasting, or scarifying existing floors.
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Moisture Testing — Ensures substrate compatibility for proper adhesion.
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Primer & Base Coat — Creates a seamless foundation.
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Topping Layer — Epoxy or urethane applied for durability and chemical resistance.
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Topcoat & Cure — Floors ready for light traffic in 24–48 hours.
Certified PumaCRETE installers guarantee precision and long-lasting results.
Benefits of PumaCRETE Produce Flooring
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Supports HACCP, FSMA, and USDA compliance.
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Minimizes downtime and repair costs.
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Enhances worker safety with slip-resistant textures.
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Easy to clean and maintain, reducing bacterial contamination.
Helpful resources: FDA Food Safety, USDA Food Safety Guidelines, SQF Institute.
Related PumaCRETE Resources
Get Started with Your Produce Flooring Project
Protect your products, employees, and facility with PumaCRETE produce flooring systems.
Call 1-800-808-7773 to speak with a flooring consultant.
Quick FAQ — Produce Flooring
How long do PumaCRETE floors last?
With proper care, our floors outlast vinyl or tile, reducing long-term costs.
Can floors be coved to walls and sloped to drains?
Yes, integrally coved floors with slope-to-drain systems improve sanitation and safety.
How soon can production resume after installation?
Most systems allow access within 24–48 hours, with full production resuming shortly after.
Additional information on Produce Flooring and Fruit, Vegetable, Juice Processing Floors
PumaCRETE® was developed for produce, fruit, vegetable and juice processors. The floors in these facilities are exposed to extreme conditions. There is punishing power lift traffic including impact, dragging and scraping. Wet and cool conditions create thermal shock and cycling, along with chemical and bacterial attack 24/7. PumaCRETE® is your heavy duty floor solution. It is a seamless urethane mortar floor, designed for the damp and cool conditions found in food and beverage coolers and processing areas.
For over 30 years, EPF has served the vegetable, fruit and juice processing industries, throughout the U.S. We offer tight controls on the entire process. This includes expert consulting and specification assistance, furnishing of PumaCRETE of materials, and installation with our own company crews. Our process maintains quality every step of the way!
EPF is a vertically integrated company, which enables us to provide A-Z flooring services for vegetable, fruit and juice processing companies. Our expert flooring consultants provide comprehensive industrial flooring solutions for your concrete floors.
Services include elimination of puddles ( slope to drain flooring), floor drains, concrete slabs and curbs, and more!
PumaCRETE® floors were developed for food safe areas and food manufacturing floors. They are recommended in produce processing areas and coolers, as well as juice and beverage processing areas. These troweled food processing floors are available in one or two pass versions. Installations may be completed in as little as 24 hour turnaround.
Over the years, both epoxy and urethane floors have been used in food and beverage plants. PumaCRETE® seamless urethane flooring is similar in appearance to epoxy floor materials. However, epoxy does not last for more than a few months in damp coolers, or most areas in food processing facilities. Read more here, for floor material options in vegetable, fruit and juice processing plants.
PumaCRETE® is typically applied at 1/4 inch thickness. This urethane concrete flooring has outstanding longevity and cost effectiveness. At an installed cost of $10-20/ sq foot, this system will often provide 15-20 years of good service. It will be the last floor that you will ever need !
Safety Audits, Inspections, and Certifications
With its easy to clean, sanitary finish, PumaCRETE® produce flooring helps your plant meet strict quality guidelines. It meets standards set by the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), SQF approved and is USDA approved. It also assists with your HACCP compliance program, and meets GFSI guidelines for SQF certification. PumaCRETE® meets certification requirements set by other food safety audit agencies including IFS, FSSC 22000, and BRC. This seamless, non porous floor finish is easy-to-clean, and you will pass your inspections with flying colors!
Antimicrobial and Sanitary Floor Finish
PumaCRETE® is antimicrobial… it inhibits the growth of bacteria, and features a hygienic, sanitary surface. It serves as an effective clean room floor, for facilities with maximum cleanliness requirements. With an optional integral cove base to seal the floor/wall junction, it provides a “bathtub” effect for cleaning and sanitation.
Thermal Shock and Thermal Cycling
Beverage flooring and other vegetable and fruit processing floors, often experience thermal expansion and contraction. This is caused by cool conditions with hot water, hot spills, or transitioning from cold to hot, or hot to cold. PumaCRETE® flooring handles these conditions, without cracking or delamination.
Durability
PumaCRETE® flooring is resistant to damage caused by impact, abrasion, and other types of mechanical abuse. The material is suitable for heavy fork lift traffic areas, including refrigerated loading dock floors, and warehouse floors.
Installation of PumaCRETE®
Installation of PumaCRETE® is performed by our own professional company crews. Crews follow rigid installation checklists, which ensures quality results, every step of the process. Major investments have been made in surface prep and installation equipment, which minimizes dust generation, and enables installations to be performed with fast turnaround, and little effect for ongoing operations.
We are even able to resurface tiles and bricks, in many circumstances. Contact one of our project estimators, for more information.
Slip Resistance
Vegetable and fruit processing floors feature a slip resistant surface. The anti slip properties are “built in” to the system, so that the floors do not lose their non skid properties.
Chemical Resistant Properties
PumaCRETE® is chemical resistant against typical sanitizers and cleaning agents used in vegetable, fruit and juice processing areas. For facilities with CIP sanitizing operations, our flooring is suitable in concentrated chemical storage areas.
For more information on our PumaCRETE® produce flooring, please contact a project consultant, for further information at 800-808-7773
