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surfaces. ULTRACOAT HT SPORT
complies with European standards
for indoor and multi-purpose
playing surfaces (EN 14904:2006).
suitable for the basketball team’s Its surface hardness,
training sessions or matches. Once combined with its mechanical
they had received the go-ahead from strength and resistance to
Cento Town Council, and following a chemicals, make
meeting held with engineers from the ULTRACOAT SPORT COLOR
Municipality, it was decided to a highly reliable product.
overhaul the existing court by Used in combination with
polishing the surface and applying a Ultracoat Premium Base it
new coat of varnish. boasts the Bfl-s1 - Cfl-s1
reaction to fire
Eco-sustainable products classification. The following
to repair the parquet day, the surfaces were sanded again and the
The first phase of the work involved polishing sidelines, the free-throw areas and the centre
and sanding the original parquet to bring it circle were painted with two coats of ULTRACOAT
back to its original condition. The surface was SPORT COLOR applied wet-on-wet in the colour
then treated with a coat of ULTRACOAT RAL 3020, the team colour. ULTRACOAT HT
PREMIUM BASE two-component, NMP-free (N- SPORT is a two-component, 100% polyurethane
Methyl-2-pyrrolidone), water-based base-coat and water-based varnish for wooden floors, with
with high isolating capacity and low emission of very low emission of volatile organic compounds
volatile organic compounds. The following day (VOC) and high resistance to wear and abrasion.
the surface was sanded again with 180 and 220- Suitable for areas with a high volume of
grade ULTRACOAT SR GRANA silica carbide pedestrian traffic, it is the ideal product to resist
abrasive disks, followed by the application of a the runs, jumps and rapid movements typical of
coat of ULTRACOAT HT SPORT two-component, basketball players. The final finishing coat was,
polyurethane and water-based varnish, again, ULTRACOAT HT SPORT.
specifically developed for wooden playing
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