Reduce Abrasion and Improve Abrasion Resistance

Abrasion occurs when foot traffic, furniture, machines, equipment, or chemical exposure scuffs, scratches, wears down, or rubs away a surface during normal use. Abrasion isn’t always negative; professionals can intentionally create it through controlled processes using abrasives, like sandpaper on wood. However, in flooring, abrasion typically results from everyday wear caused by people and equipment moving across the surface or exposure to chemicals. Often, abrasion shows up as a dulling of the floor’s surface and a loss of luster. Traditionally, maintaining the floor’s appearance required facility teams to constantly strip, reapply, and buff acrylic wax every three to four months.

Today, EPIC for Concrete sealer from Ultra Durable Technologies significantly reduces this normal, yet undesirable wear. Just one coat can protect the floor for 3–5 years or longer before needing reapplication. When it’s time to recoat, you don’t need to strip the surface. Instead, simply rescreen it and apply a thin new coat of EPIC.

Abrasion resistance refers to how well a surface—such as flooring—can withstand wear from constant rubbing contact with other materials. For example, foot traffic wears on VCT, vinyl, linoleum, and other resilient floors, while both machine and foot traffic impact concrete, terrazzo, stone, and other non-resilient surfaces. When you need extra abrasion resistance, you can boost performance by adding our Aggregate additive to EPIC and Ultra HTS.

As mentioned earlier, once you properly prepare the floor and remove all old finishes and sealers, you only need to apply a single coat of EPIC. Our EPIC for Concrete seals the surface, strengthens it, and increases its ability to handle everyday wear and tear, giving you truly "Ultra Durable Floors."

Abrasion Protection

Scratches remain one of the biggest ongoing flooring maintenance issues, especially when equipment and furniture, like carts, bookcases, chairs, and tables, constantly move back and forth across office and warehouse floors. Prevent abrasion and keep your floors looking great by using floor protectors.