How is Rubber Flooring Made from Dalsouple

The Manufacturing Process of rubber flooring

In the simplest terms producing rubber flooring can be compared with baking a loaf of bread. A unique combination of natural rubber and minerals extracted from natural deposits and environmentally compatible colour pigments are mixed together to form a paste. This is vulcanised by using curatives or accelerators and high temperatures over a long period of time.

Natural Rubber in its uncured/unvulcanised state is sticky, deforms easily when warm and brittle when cold. For obvious reasons this would not be an ideal material for rubber flooring.

Vulcanisation makes the rubber more durable, adding mechanical properties and allows the application of stress to deform and yet revert to its original shape when stress is released. This process creates a far more superior product in contrast.

The vulcanised rubber paste is added to moulds and submitted to heat. This solidifies the rubber into the usable tile form.

Other universal examples of vulcanised rubber products include; tyres, shoe soles and hose pipes.

There are no PVC plasticisers or chlorine-organic compounds in any Dalsouple products. Both of these would be found in PVC equivalents.

Dalsouple only use the highest quality raw materials sourced from suppliers with the strictest ecological and safety standards.

Safety and Quality Control

- Implement strict process parameters to ensure no drift in quality throughout production
- Specialised Operators at all stages of production
- Vigorous checking by at least 5 qualified and experienced operators of the finished products
- IMO certification Control Organisations check maintenance of equipment and the processes used annually

Dalsouple are so confident of the quality and design of their products that they are guaranteed for 10 years from time of installation.