Introducing EnviroSTIX — a pre-applied, poly-acrylic adhesive system — designed to meet today’s rigorous demands for bond-strength even in the presence of high moisture and/or alkalinity. The stage is set that will allow this “breakthrough” technology to revolutionize the flooring industry by changing the way flooring contractors, general contractors, architects and end users think about installations.
Unsurpassed bonding strength
Fast Installation; Immediate Use – NO WAIT TIME TO USE YOUR NEW FLOOR
Eliminates need for moisture remediation – Resists Extreme Concrete Moisture Levels –
18+ lbs CaCl and/or 99+% RH
No VOCs
No messy buckets to spill
For use with sheet vinyl, vct, rolled rubber, rubber tiles, carpet tiles, sports floors, and virtually any type of specialty flooring.
For almost 20 years the flooring adhesive industry has been in turmoil and upheaval. Beginning in 1992 or thereabouts the EPA required all commercially marketed adhesives to be free of chemical solvents because of their potential to harm the health of all who came in constant contact with them.
Since strong chemicals were responsible for holding the bonding agents in a stable emulsion that could be easily transported, applied and cured, the removal of these chemicals made it impossible to continue without major changes to the formulas. The safest and most available replacement for chemicals was water. Thus began intensive work to develop water-based adhesives that were reliable and economical.
At that time, no one but perhaps the smartest scientists in the world knew that all concrete contains water, even long after it has “dried”. This means that if water in water-based adhesives mixes with the moisture in the concrete, then this dilutes the adhesive and compromises the bond strength . The result is a failure of the flooring installation.
As a result of flooring failures, the 90s and early 2000s were a time when flooring and adhesive manufacturers paid out huge amounts of money to settle claims when their products failed. To try and stem this problem, there grew up a new sub-industry in the flooring business. Called “Moisture Remediation”, many companies spent millions of dollars and millions of man-hours developing ancillary applications designed to keep the moisture in the concrete from impacting and causing bond failure in the adhesives whose job it is to hold the flooring to the substrate. These efforts produced some success, but the successes have not been consistent, and problems continue to persist.
For the past 2 1/2 years, EnviroSTIX has been changing the minds of people one group at a time. Could now be the time for you take a hard serious look at a product whose story has caused many to initially sneer in skepticism? Could now be the time to suspend your doubts for a few moments to honestly and objectively evaluate a new approach — an economical approach, a pragmatic approach that is working in “real life” for flooring professionals?
Now, you, too, can be “in” on what is just the beginning of a revolution in the flooring industry.