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UKM brings slip resistance to a multitude of flooring applications with our plasma spray process and Darkar’s NoSkid
® safety pads.
More and more transits are mandating that rail car walkway surfaces
meet Federal Register, Volume 56, No. 173 which cites OSHA recommendations
that walking surfaces have a static co-efficient of friction of
0.6 for accessible routes and 0.8 for ramps.
Using UKM’s specially designed in-house testing facilities,
both UKM Plasma Spray Process and Darkar NoSkid® safety pads
have been successfully tested with over a million cycles to a slip
resistance index of 1.0 under both wet and dry conditions. This
in accordance with ASTM F2048-00 Standard Practice for Reporting
Slip Resistance Test Results using the English XL Variable Incidence
Tribometer© per ASTM F1679.
Both processes pass the smoke and flame requirements of 49CFR
part 238. UKM Plasma Spray
For non-stainless steel walkway products with a shape or profile
that require toughness and durability, the UKM plasma spray process
0058 is a corrosion resistant process that can be designed and
used into a multitude of applications including:
- Car Door Thresholds (cast, extruded or fabricated)
- Step Angles
- Ladder and Step Assemblies
- Anti-climbers
- Pantograph Walkways and roof Equipment Access
Areas
- Existing Stainless Steel Diamond Plate Walkway Applications
Items such as thresholds and step treads that require the highest
level of light reflective values can be safety yellow-coated using
UKM process 0062.
UKM and Darkar have teamed up to provide NoSkid ® slip resistant
walkway products.
Because of its superior resiliency and ease of application Darkar
NoSkid ® products
are now the recommended choice of transits and railroads alike
for:
- Step treads
- Between Car Walkways
- Vestibule Floors
- Trapdoors
- Locomotive Cab Flooring
They are manufactured from 304-2B 20 gauge stainless steel with
Darkar’s patented NoSkid ® material
interlaced with aluminum grit throughout. This NoSkid ® material
is then bonded to the steel base.
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