Concrete polishing

Concrete polishing

The art of concrete polishing is a recent innovation to the concrete industry. It is a process that was adapted from the ancient method of polishing stone.The adaption of polished concrete was first originated in the early 1990's by an engineer in Florida, Jon Torino, when looking for a durable finish for industrial flooring.

What he found was that polishing concrete was a way to mechanically seal a concrete surface as well as beautify it at the same time thus providing a permanent finished surface. The innovation led to the need to develop and use chemical hardeners to increase the hardness and density of the concrete to compliment the polishing process. This led to the need of specialized diamond tooling to properly work the newly hardened and densified concrete substrate. Through years of development, he was able to add many other aspects to the system including the addition color to create a decorative surface that had far superior wear and abrasion resistance than most other systems available.

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* Concrete

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