Floor Mat Blog
Creating the Right Logo Mat for Any Application
Case Study: Harley Davidson Fit Shop Reduction Logo Mat The most prestigious motorcycle manufacturer in the world, Harley Davidson, was currently purchasing a highly customized bi-level “wooden” floor mat for their Fit Shop Program. The mat is designed to assist the dealer when custom fitting a motorcycle to a riders height and leg length. The… Read more
Designing the Perfect Logo Mat – Timber Wolf
Case Study: Timber Wolf Smokeless Tobacco Mat Swedish Match (a smokeless tobacco company) planned a major national promotional campaign for their Timber Wolf smokeless tobacco product. An online game was basis for the promotional concept. The basic message about game rules was presented to the end user via a picture quality graphic on a floor… Read more
Why use a Custom Logo Mat?
Logo mats are a valuable, long term marketing technique that gives your company name or your product brand a constant, highly visible presence at the front door, at counters, behind check-out locations or in front of product displays. Logo Mats are a perfect way to combine design and function of a quality floor mat into one excellent high visible… Read more
Why use Outdoor Mats?
Reduced maintenance cost inside your facility start outside, “before” your visitors enter the building. Stopping debris and water outside your entrances is the best way to keep costly contaminants from entering your facility and doing damage to your floors. Abrasive dirt and moisture take a free ride on the bottom of visitor’s foot gear. If… Read more
Why Using Floor Mats Indoors Makes Good Sense
Here are three excellent reasons to use quality floor mats indoors, from the front door to the back door. Reduce your building maintenance costs and protect floors from premature wear and damage. It is estimated that 75-80% of all dust and dirt inside your facility is tracked into a building from outdoors on visitors footgear…. Read more
Why Quality Floor Mats Make Sense
The estimated cost of finding and removing a pound of dirt from a building is $850. (ISSA) One square yard of carpet can accumulate one pound of dirt in a week- twice that in inclement weather 70 to 80% of dust, grime, and dirt in a building are tracked in from the outside on people’s… Read more
Waterhog Entrance Mats
The Waterhog floor mat, affectionately known as the Waterhog, is one of the industry’s most well known and widely used entrance floor mats. It’s revolutionary design and construction has made it popular not only for commercial applications, but for personal home use as well. Over the years, a number of different styles and extensions have… Read more
Rubber Backed Mats versus Vinyl Backed Mats
Floor mats are available with two distinct types of backing: rubber-backed mats and vinyl-backed mats. Rubber backed entrance mats are superior to vinyl-backed entrance mats for a variety of reasons explained below. Rubber Entrance Mats Rubber is the preferred backing for all floor mat products. Rubber backed floor mats are made for high-use, heavy-traffic areas;… Read more
A General Overview of Recessed Grille Mats
Recessed Floor Mats have long been a popular choice among architects and building owners alike. Recessed matting lays flush with the surrounding floor, as the mat (and accompanying frame) is laid into a depression or indentation which helps both with drainage as well as trips and falls. Due to the myriad of depths, size and… Read more