Altro Suprema

Altro Suprema stands out as a leading choice in the realm of safety flooring, offering a unique combination of aesthetic freedom and high performance. Unlike traditional safety floors that often feature visible aggregates, Suprema boasts a smooth, contemporary finish across an impressive spectrum of 40 colours, ranging from subtle neutrals to vibrant hues. This extensive choice empowers designers and specifiers to create truly bespoke interiors, coordinating flooring with overall design schemes without sacrificing the crucial safety features required in demanding environments. It’s an ideal solution for areas where the look and feel are just as important as technical performance, such as reception areas, corridors, hospital wards, classrooms, shops, and cafes.

The key to Suprema’s performance lies in its engineering. It provides sustained slip resistance, achieving a Pendulum Test Value (PTV) of ≥36, ensuring a low slip potential for the guaranteed lifetime of the product. This makes it suitable for areas with a high risk of spills or where foot traffic transitions from wet to dry conditions. The 2mm thickness contributes to its durability, capable of withstanding heavy footfall typically found in commercial settings like schools, healthcare facilities, and retail outlets. This robust construction ensures longevity and reduces the need for premature replacement, offering excellent value over its lifespan.

Hygiene and maintenance are critical considerations, particularly in healthcare and education sectors. Altro Suprema incorporates Altro Easyclean technology, creating a surface that is significantly easier to clean and maintain compared to standard safety flooring. This technology helps repel dirt and stains, reducing the time and resources needed for cleaning routines. Furthermore, the inclusion of a bacteriostat helps inhibit the growth of bacteria, contributing to a more hygienic environment. When installed with welded joints, Suprema creates an impermeable surface, preventing liquids from seeping through and further enhancing hygiene and ease of cleaning. This makes it an excellent choice for environments where cleanliness is non-negotiable.

From a practical standpoint, Altro Suprema offers compatibility and versatility. It can be effectively integrated with other Altro flooring ranges and Altro Whiterock wall cladding systems to create complete, coordinated solutions for interiors. Its flexibility allows for easier installation, even in complex spaces. As a high-quality sheet vinyl flooring option, it represents a reliable investment for facilities managers and building owners seeking a balance between design aspirations, safety regulations, durability, and manageable maintenance for commercial and public spaces.

Altro Suprema Buying Guide

Choosing the right flooring involves balancing aesthetics, performance, and practicality. This guide helps you determine if Altro Suprema is the ideal choice for your project:

• Room usage / Location: Altro Suprema excels in medium to high-traffic commercial and public areas where safety and style are both important. Think healthcare wards and corridors, school classrooms and circulation areas, retail shops, cafes, reception areas, leisure facilities, and social housing. Its slip resistance makes it suitable where occasional spillages might occur, but it’s not designed for persistently wet areas like commercial kitchens or shower rooms (where other Altro ranges might be better suited).
• Lifestyle: Primarily designed for commercial environments, its benefits translate well to demanding residential settings like busy hallways or utility areas needing durable, safe, and easy-to-clean flooring. Its smooth finish is comfortable underfoot compared to more heavily aggregated safety floors.
• Budget: As a high-performance safety flooring with enhanced aesthetic appeal, Altro Suprema sits within the mid-to-upper range for commercial sheet vinyl. While the initial cost might be higher than standard vinyl, its durability, longevity, and low maintenance requirements offer excellent long-term value.
• Durability & Maintenance: Suprema is highly durable (2mm thickness) and designed for sustained slip resistance throughout its life. Altro Easyclean technology makes it significantly easier to clean than standard safety floors, reducing maintenance time and costs. Regular cleaning with appropriate methods will keep it looking its best.
• Material Type Pros & Cons: Altro Suprema is a sheet vinyl safety floor. Pros: Excellent slip resistance, wide colour choice, smooth aesthetic, durable, hygienic, easy to clean, impermeable when welded. Cons: Requires professional installation, higher initial cost than non-safety vinyl, smooth finish may show scratches more readily than heavily textured floors in extremely abrasive environments.
• Aesthetics & Style: This is where Suprema shines. With 40 contemporary, sparkle-free colours, it offers significant design freedom, allowing for modern, subtle, or bold interiors without the industrial look of some safety floors.
• Comfort & Sound: As a resilient sheet vinyl, it offers moderate underfoot comfort and some impact sound reduction compared to hard tiles or concrete. It provides a quieter environment than laminate or wood flooring.
• Underfloor Heating: Altro Suprema is generally suitable for use with underfloor heating systems, but maximum surface temperature limits (typically 27°C) must be adhered to. Always confirm compatibility with the specific UFH system and follow manufacturer guidelines.
• Installation: Altro Suprema requires professional installation by experienced fitters, like the teams at Grosvenor Flooring. Proper subfloor preparation is crucial. Sheets are typically hot or cold welded to create seamless, hygienic joins.
• Sustainability: Altro focuses on durability for longer product life cycles. Suprema is available in phthalate-free options, contributing to better indoor air quality. Check specific product details for recycled content and environmental certifications.

Frequently Asked Questions about Altro Suprema