​How Does the Six-sided steel cover Structure Reduce Edge Loss in High-Traffic Areas by 70%?

        Airport waiting halls, logistics and warehousing centers, and automobile manufacturing workshops - the floors of these places are subject to tens of thousands of trampling, forklift rolling, and heavy object dragging every day. Traditional epoxy flooring or tiles often show edge cracking and lifting within three months, with high maintenance costs and affecting operations. The newly launched "Calcium Sulfate Six-sided Van-steel Plate" by Huahong Flooring Company is rewriting the game with a disruptive design: Through the six-sided steel covering structure, the edge loss rate of the high-wear area is directly reduced by 70%.

From "one-sided Defense" to "All-round moat

        The reinforcement logic of traditional floor materials is straightforward and crude - either thicken the coating on the surface or wrap the edges around it. However, Huahong's engineering team discovered that the real damage often starts from the "invisible corners" : when heavy objects hit the ground, the impact force spreads in all directions like water waves, and the edges of traditional materials, lacking lateral support, are very likely to become "weak points" where stress concentration occurs.

        Imagine you smash a cardboard box with your fist. The first thing to break will definitely be the edges of the box. Zhang Lei, the R&D director of Huahong, made an analogy, "Our six-sided steel-clad structure is like installing a metal skeleton on a cardboard box. It not only protects the top but also wraps the four sides and the bottom with high-strength steel, leaving no place for the impact force to penetrate."

        The secret of this "all-round protection" lies inside the panel: a 1.2-millimeter-thick cold-rolled steel plate, through a precise bending process, completely wraps the calcium sulfate base material, forming a seamless steel "protective shell". Laboratory simulation tests show that after being continuously crushed by a 2-ton forklift 100,000 times, the edge wear depth of traditional laminate flooring reaches 3 millimeters, while the wear of Van-steel panels is less than 0.5 millimeters.

        Where "hardcore ground" is needed, that is its battlefield. We even received inquiries from the zoo. Zhang Lei disclosed, "They want to use it in the rhinoceros Pavilion - the hooves of those big guys have an impact force on the ground comparable to that of small forklifts."

"Make the ground an invisible asset for enterprises"

        For the Huahong team, the ambition of the Van-steel panel is not limited to "greater durability". They are developing a supporting intelligent monitoring system, which can provide real-time feedback on ground force data by embedding sensors in the steel cladding. In the future, enterprises may manage ground health as if they were viewing equipment operation reports. Chen Xiaohua, the general manager of the company, envisions, "For instance, if the system issues a warning of abnormal stress at the edge of a certain panel, maintenance can be dispatched in advance, transforming passive repair into proactive prevention."

        This concept of "ground as asset" is driving Huahong to transform into a full life-cycle service provider. They establish digital files for each batch of panels leaving the factory, recording the material, installation location and even usage scenarios, to facilitate customers' future upgrades or renovations. Twenty years later, when this panel has fulfilled its mission and is recycled, the steel on it can still be forged into new reinforcing bars - this is true sustainability. Chen Xiaohua said.

        At present, Huahong has built two fully automatic steel clad panel production lines in China, with an annual production capacity of 2 million square meters. With the expansion of markets in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, this "Made in China" ground solution is enabling more heavy-duty scenarios to bid farewell to the "fragile era".