Zone transitions in food facilities – is your floor the missing link in your hygiene strategy?
In food manufacturing and processing facilities, hygiene protocols are taken seriously. PPE, hand sanitisation stations, air locks, and colour-coded equipment are all standard practice. Clean zones are clearly defined and carefully protected.
But here’s what’s often overlooked:
🚶 Every time a staff member walks from a loading dock into a production area, their soles carry what the floor carried — bacteria, dirt, and moisture — straight into your clean zone.
🚜 Every time a pallet jack, trolley, or forklift crosses that threshold, its wheels do exactly the same. Silently. Repeatedly. All day long.
The issue isn’t your hygiene protocol — it’s the gap between the protocol and the floor.
Closing the gap at ground level
ProfilGate® floor-level hygiene systems, available through FMCG Industry Solutions, are designed to eliminate that gap. Installed directly at zone transition points, they actively clean shoe soles, wheels, and casters at the moment of crossing — with no detours, no manual steps, and no reliance on compliance.
- ✔ Automatic cleaning with every pass
- ✔ Effective for both personnel and transport equipment
- ✔ Seamlessly integrates into existing hygiene protocols
- ✔ Supports audit-ready compliance, every day
Whether you’re operating a chilled storage facility, a dry goods warehouse, or a high-care production environment — if people and equipment are crossing zones, contamination risk is always present.
See it in action
Want to see how this could work in your facility? Our team is happy to walk you through the options — no obligation.
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