Hygiene Top of the Bill for Unilever's Green Site in SA Flowcrete has secured a major coup at Unilever's new manufacturing plant in Durban, South Africa, with the installation of a number of the company's seamless epoxy and polyurethane resin flooring systems. The new plant, affectionately named 'Indonsa', meaning 'Morning Star' in isiZulu, is home to world famous dry food brands including Knorr, Robertson's, Knorrox, Aromat and Rajah and has been designed under a 'Green' construction programme that has considered sustainability at every stage of the development -- including the floor space -- by architects Elphick Proome and Main Contractors Stefanutti Stock. Aside from the above-mentioned environmental requirements, it was crucial that the flooring systems chosen in the final specification could meet Unilver's rigorous hygiene requirements while at the same time offer speedy installation times so as to allow follow-on trades' early access to the site. On top of this, all flooring materials specified had to be suitable for application onto a suspended slab built on compacted clay as well as onto 'green' concrete. After a thorough consultation with Flowcrete South Africa's Technical Team, a number of resin systems were chosen to provide a floor finish across different zones of the 22,000m 2 manufacturing plant. Firstly, Flowcrete's Flowcem DPM was applied over the concrete slabs at 2mm to provide a smooth damp-proof membrane layer that would control moisture levels within the substrate over time without causing damage or defects to the final floor finish. Flowcem DPM was the key to