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Family-owned and operated since 1919, Altro is a world-leading manufacturer and innovator in commercial floors and walls.
With over 60 years’ experience in delivering floors and walls for commercial kitchens we offer an unparalleled, premium expertise to food service sector’s architects, designers, contractors and end user to help them transform the busiest commercial kitchens and dining rooms into thriving environments.
When creating these spaces, you need to make sure that everyone from the Executive Chef to the four-year-old sitting down to lunch is safe.
Altro is a perfect fit for these areas because our products offer:
Altro Stronghold 30 is the perfect choice when there are frequent spillages of water and other contaminants present. It maintains its 1 in a million slip resistance even with vegetable oil, greasy water and flour underfoot. In addition to keeping staff safe from slips, it also helps reduce their fatigue thanks to its 3mm thickness, providing ample noise reduction and comfort underfoot.
Altro Classic 25 2.5mm safety sheet flooring with lasting slip resistance, durability and abrasion resistance. Altro Classic 25 provides lasting slip resistance, durability and abrasion resistance, making it ideal for use in heavy traffic areas – particularly in commercial kitchens.
Altro Atlas 40 4mm safety sheet flooring built to withstand even the heaviest of equipment. Hard-wearing, stable and resistant to mechanical damage and chemicals, Altro Atlas 40 provides long-term durability and slip resistance, and is easy to clean and maintain.
Altro Stronghold 30 adhesive-free is specifically designed for commercial kitchens and back-of-house areas, this revolutionary flooring can be welded and walked on the same day, slashing kitchen downtime. Altro Stronghold 30 adhesive-free flooring is built to last, engineered to handle tough kitchen environments. It’s a breeze to install, maintain, and repair, with exceptional scratch and scuff resistance for enduring performance
Altro Puraguard is the first choice in wall protection for back-of-house and commercial kitchen areas. These low maintenance PVC panels promote durability and hygiene in a variety of back-of-house area types including commercial kitchens, dishwashing areas, pantries, service corridors, storage areas and janitorial closets.
Altro Tegulis is an innovative wall solution available in an extensive color and design palette. With a chic look and feel of tile, the custom-etched grout lines offer a hygienic solution eliminating scrubbing and repair issues.
A dropped cup of water near the sink, a tipped over bottle of olive oil next to the stove and grease from the freshly-fried onion rings splattering onto the floor: In the heat of the 6:00 p.m. rush, such spills may go unnoticed. But these common kitchen goods can spell danger in any fast-moving food and drink preparation and cooking area.
Altro’s integrated safety flooring and durable wall protection provide a long-lasting safe surface even when wet, dusty and greasy conditions exist.
Pressure created from walking on our flooring causes slip-resistant particles to brush against the sole of the shoe, creating friction. It’s this friction that helps prevent slips even on greasy surfaces.
Topically applied slip-resistant particles, such as an epoxy paint or resin, can wear away through everyday use. Our safety flooring technology, with its aggregate throughout, will ensure your floor’s slip resistance will remain for the entirety of the product’s life.
As the inventor of safety flooring, we take slip resistance seriously! All of our ranges are rigorously tested for slip resistance values using multiple techniques and tests, such as the PTV Pendulum Test, Ramp Test and James Machine.
Our safety floors offer slip resistance values well above ADA and OSHA guidelines, and retain such values even when wet.
What do you need and why?
Tests prove different contaminants pose different safety challenges. While the risk from vegetable oil may come as no surprise, the other most significant danger comes from greasy water – and what kitchen can avoid that?
Typical contaminants in a kitchen are not water and motor oil, which is what the PTV and Ramp tests use. The test we used was the PTV pendulum test BS7976, but instead of using only water as the test contaminant, we used a range of other contaminants found in a typical kitchen.
These contaminants are generally more viscous or substantial than water, creating a thicker layer between floor and shoe. This squeeze film thickness prevents the foot from making contact with the floor and increases the risk of slipping. This table shows how the performance across floors with different pendulum and R ratings perform with the different contaminants. In commercial kitchens where vegetable oil and greasy water are likely to be present, only Altro Stronghold 30 gives a 1 in a million chance of slipping.
Whether you’re a proud owner of a restaurant or a bar, you understand that protecting your establishment from potential risk is of utmost importance.
While having good insurance coverage is crucial, it’s equally important to seek ways to minimize costs without compromising coverage.
Altro safety flooring meets and exceeds industry standards in many key areas. The high slip resistance reduces potential injuries to employees, thus reducing potential downtime and minimizes slip and fall claims.
By investing in Altro safety flooring, you can mitigate various risks that could lead to costly claims for your commercial insurance. You can expect fewer and less costly claims for their commercial insurance by reducing:
This proactive approach to risk management should be reflected in lower insurance premiums, ultimately saving you money while maintaining robust coverage for your establishment.
Download a copy of our insurance letter to share with commercial underwriter.
Keeping people safe isn’t just about slip resistance and cleaning. It’s about preventing contamination.
Our integrated hygienic wall panels and safety flooring system is tank-able. It has impermeable surfaces, which are easy to keep clean. With regular cleaning and maintenance using traditional solutions, Altro floors and walls do not allow a place for bacteria to grow.
It’s so tough, you can power wash all surfaces and not cause surface damage that can lead to bacterial growth. With integrated Altro safety flooring and wall protection, you can reduce contamination risks and improve inspection results.
HACCP is an international system for food safety management. HACCP requires a risk assessment for every food preparation area identifying “critical points” where food safety hazards could arise.
Hazards include:
You can reduce hazard risk and keep inspections to a minimum by selecting Altro safety flooring and wall protection, which are all approved by HACCP International.
Richard Mallett European Director of HACCP International:
"Altro’s products are one of the few worldwide flooring and walling products to have achieved HACCP International certification for non-food services and supplies, which means that they have been assessed by a third party and found to be satisfactory and hygienic for use in a food environment.
Both the flooring and walling products from Altro offer the seamless and impervious solution which means that there is nowhere for bacteria to hide, as well as being easy to clean, both important issues in the food industry."
Our specialty kitchens mockup showcases our floor and wall solutions at work in a simulated kitchen environment. Altro safety flooring can be installed over wood and many other types of flexible subfloor including metal walk-in coolers, whereas ceramic tiles would crack or debond.
Drains and cleanouts
In new construction or when replacing drains during renovations, clamping ring style drains must be utilized. This style drain facilitates a watertight transition with flooring.
For existing drains and cleanouts, Altro recommends strainers and tops to be modified in the field by the flooring installer to create a custom clamping transition.
Coolers and freezers
Altro safety flooring may be installed in new or existing freezers and coolers.
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Stainless steel and heat deflector plates
Altro recommends the use of stainless steel panels behind high heat cooking lines and for equipment with excessive heat and adding heat deflector plates under the appliance is highly recommended. Failure to use these items could result in material defects and void the product warranty.
Cleaning and maintenance
Proper care of Altro safety flooring is critical. For up to date cleaning and maintenance information please visit here.
Staining
Certain chemicals may cause staining of vinyl flooring. Traffic stains may be caused by asphalt and rubber products like rubber mats. Please conduct a stain test prior to installation.
Transitions
When joining Altro Puraguard to Altro flooring, we recommend the use of the C4/C8 cap strip method, followed by the Overlap method. If wall protection has not been selected for installation, your Altro flooring can terminate with a C7 cap strip. For specific detail diagrams and CAD files please visit here.
Only installers who have successfully taken an Altro training course specified for kitchens and wet environments should be trusted with commercial kitchen installations. Failure to use a qualified installer could result in a faulty installation and will void the product warranty.
Please utilize the knowledge of your Altro Sales Representative and our Technical Services department for commercial kitchen installations. We are here to ensure a job well done.
The goal of the Altro training academy is to train and qualify a network of professional Altro Kitchen Advantage installers who wish to become part of a specialized group of recommended Altro installers and fitters. The academy is ideal for flooring installers looking to learn how to install these specialized commercial products. Altro stands behind our installers and always recommends that customers use Altro trained installers.
Our Altro Kitchen Advantage training center offers typical installation scenarios integrated with best practices for a better, hands-on learning experience.
Course curriculum:
