Flooring Treadmaster Flooring
Safety in style
The rubber flooring made by
Treadmaster is designed to offer
important safety and durability
credentials, but is also winning
fans for its aesthetics, in some
surprising quarters
F ire standards are much more stringent in the rail
sector than they are for land-based buildings, but
the fundamental principal should always be the same
– safety should never be compromised over costs.
As of 2018, the new rail fire standard EN45545-2 is mandatory
across Europe and is set to take over from existing national
standards such as BS6853. The key focus of this is to harmonise
rail fire standards across Europe, making it easier for companies
to access the wider European market without having to meet all
of the previous existing national fire standards.
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“In some quarters the new EN45545-2 standard is acknowledged
as being less stringent than the existing national standards and
as a consequence, some materials that didn’t meet the old national
standards may now meet the new European standard,” says
Tom Collins, operations director at Treadmaster. “Specifiers and
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ABOVE: Flooring
supplied for the
UK’s London
Underground has
been repurposed
for coasters and
pan mats
operators should not feel pressured
to reduce costs by using materials
that would not have previously
met the national standard but now
meet the European standard.”
Treadmaster’s range of
rail-compliant floor coverings
include TM7, which meets BS6853
Cat 1a and EN45545-2 HL3, and
TM8, which meets BS69853 Cat1b
and EN45545-2 HL3.
“Treadmaster Flooring has a long and wellestablished
well- reputation for manufacturing high-quality,
long-lasting floors that exceed even the most stringent fire
retardancy requirements within the transport industry, but we
also operate in other markets and have provided quality bespoke
flooring to some very unusual projects,” notes Collins.