High Friction, High Performance, High Quality Surfacing!
High Friction Surfacing (HFS), known also as Anti-Skid, offers the highest level of skid resistance onto any surface improving safety and demarcating specific areas.
COLAS Contracting hold PrTrait approval for installing both cold and hot applied HFS on National routes.
Only contractors with this certification are permitted on the national network. Clients include City and County Councils, TII, PPP Operators MMaRC networks and private customers.
Details
Buff coloured thermoplastic
The surface shall be clean, dry and free from dust, laitance and foreign matter.
It is laid in a single layer and contains calcined bauxite aggregate throughout its depth, (usually 3/5mm, ensuring that new calcined bauxite is exposed as the surface wears). This product can be applied all year round onto new and old surfaces.
Coloured thermoplastic is laid at a temperature of 180 / 200°C and has an instant bond to the surface through heat transfer to the underlying surface.
| Road Application Temperature | 0-35°C |
| Product Application Temperature | 190°C-210°C |
| Maximum Safe Heating Temperature | 210°C-230°C |
| Softening Point | 95°C min |
| Flow Resistance @ 60°C | 1mm max |
| Spread Rate (approx) | 80m2 per tonne |
| Skid Resistance Value (SRV) | 70+ |
- Excellent skid resistance value
- No surface cracking
- Suitable for new or old surfaces
- Rapid cure 30-45 minutes @ 20°C Durable
- All year application
- Cost effective
- Maintenance free
- Speed of application
- Oil and solvent resistant
- Visual and audial impact for road users
- Reduction braking distances & Less risk of skidding
- Approaches to Pedestrian Crossings Traffic Calming
- High Traffic Junctions
- Approached to Roundabouts
- Approaches to High Accident Bends
RED COLOURED THERMOPLASTIC SURFACE TREATMENT
ColourTuff Red is a high quality thermoplastic anti-slip/anti-skid road surface treatment. ColourTuff provides an excellent visual aid to the demarcation of busy road areas.
This product is suitable for marking areas such as bus and cycle lanes, walkways, car bays and traffic calming strips.
ColourTuff Red is a quick-drying hotapplied thermoplastic with minimum disruption to pedestrians or traffic when applied.
It is available in a number of different grades so whether it’s required for a light duty area, such as
a walkway, or a heavy traffic zone like a junction, there is a ColourTuff Red product suitable for all. Formulated under quality assurance ISO 9001:2015.
- Good recovery properties
- Creates visual awareness
- Excellent colour retention
- No material waste
| Minimum Road Temperature | 5°C |
| Application Temperature | 180°C-200°C |
| Maximum Safe Heating Temperature | 210°C |
| Specific Gravity | 1.2-1.8 |
| Softening Point | 80°C-110°C |
| Flow Resistance | 25% max |
| Spread Rate (approx) | 120m2 |
| Skid Resistance Value (SRV) | 55+ |
The surface shall be clean, dry and free from dust, laitance and foreign matter.
The compound should be heated to approximately 190°C and agitated in a purpose-built pre-heater unit, ensuring that temperature does not exceed 210°C. Allow the material to cool to ambient temperature before re-opening to traffic.
- Cycle lanes
- Bus lanes
- Walkways
- Car bays
- Traffic calming strips
- General demarcation
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