Collection: Floor Marking Tape

An industrial floor marking tape marks out aisles, storage areas, machine locations and exits. It is laid in minutes, can be changed without stripping and needs neither drying time nor a production stop, unlike paint.

The reference in the catalogue

Dagobert Industrie stocks the 3M Safety-Walk 600 anti-slip strip. See also our anti-slip tapes and our PVC tapes.

Tape or paint

Paint lasts longer under heavy forklift traffic and resists mechanical scrubbing better. It requires a prepared floor, drying time and closing off the area, and any change requires stripping.

Tape is laid immediately, comes off without a trace on a sound floor, and lets a traffic plan evolve at the pace of the workshop. Under heavy traffic, it wears faster, especially at the corners.

The practical rule: paint for a settled layout, tape for anything that may move, and always tape for temporary site markings.

Preparing the floor, the step always skipped

A workshop floor carries a film of fine dust and often oily residue, invisible but enough to stop the adhesive from wetting. A simple sweep is not enough.

A porous floor, raw concrete or worn power-floated concrete, needs degreasing and sometimes a primer. And a freshly washed floor still holds water in its pores for several hours: laying tape on it guarantees it will lift.

Corners and ends

A marking almost never lifts in the middle of a straight line. It always goes from a corner, lifted by a forklift wheel or a scrubber.

Two remedies. Cut the corners at forty-five degrees rather than at right angles, which removes the fragile point. And press down the ends twice as long as the rest of the strip.