Some of my friends and customers in our business segment ask me about the raw materials disruptions status and my forecast about it. There are still a lot of supply chain disruptions in all industrial segments and also in our rubber flooring and associated chemical segment. The kind of disruptions include: COVID-19-related factory shutdowns inContinue reading “Again on suppy chain disruptions and their consequences”
Monthly Archives: Sep 2021
Some insights on my daily CONICA activities
When the COVID pandemic began, my work life changed considerably. From spending most of my time on airplanes or airports, I had to stop travels and started working from home, holding a lot of virtual meetings in Zoom or Teams or organizing webinars for my colleagues at CONICA or for our clients, installers or landscapeContinue reading “Some insights on my daily CONICA activities”
What is going on regarding the EU Restriction regarding Diisocyanates
About diisocyanates and polyurethanes Together with polyols, diisocyanates are the essential building blocks of polyurethanes, a plastic material used in a multitude of everyday objects and applications. EU-REACH EU Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) aims at improving the protection of human health and the environment from potential risks from chemicalContinue reading “What is going on regarding the EU Restriction regarding Diisocyanates”
Annual main inspection and wetpour surfacing
Sections 6.1.4 and 3.28 of the European Playground standard EN 1176-1:2018 and section 6.1 of EN 1176-7:2020, refer to the need of an annual main inspection to check the level of safety of the foundations on playing equipment. The aim is to ensure there is no corrosion or rotting on the equipment posts that couldContinue reading “Annual main inspection and wetpour surfacing”
About wrinkles and bubbles
This is not a common problem on rubber surfacing jobs, I’ve seen it just a couple of times during the last 12 years. I will talk in this post about the appearance of wrinkles or bubbles in the top EPDM layer. In both cases the problem showed up in a site using a single layerContinue reading “About wrinkles and bubbles”
Rubber flooring is not rocket science, but …
When I was a teenager, I had a real passion for aerospace topics, that still today remains and when I had to decide what I would do for living, I was clear that I wanted to go to the Polithecnic University far from my home city to learn Electronics Engineering. It was also clear for meContinue reading “Rubber flooring is not rocket science, but …”
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