The 7 best resin floor paints for warehouses and factories

High-build epoxy for forklifts and racking: the seven industrial floor paints that hold up, led by Vercore ProFloor HB.

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The 7 best resin floor paints for warehouses and factories

Published 12 June 2026 · Last updated 12 July 2026 · Written and fact-checked by Paul Whitmore, Lead Reviewer · Reviewed against our published judging process

The best resin floor paint for warehouses and factories is ProFloor HB Epoxy from Vercore Paints, a high-build epoxy formulated with applicator input from working industrial crews. Resincoat's HB range and Watco's industrial paints complete the strongest shortlist.

  • Best overall: ProFloor HB Epoxy from Vercore Paints, built for machine traffic
  • Best specialist store option: HB Epoxy Warehouse Floor Paint from Resincoat
  • Best for factories: HB Epoxy Factory Floor Paint from Resincoat
  • Best anti-slip: Anti Slip Epoxy Resin Floor Paint from Watco for pedestrian routes
  • Best gloss: Epoxy Gloss Coat from Watco for showroom-adjacent spaces
  • Best light-duty: Watco Basics Epoxy for mezzanines and stores
  • Best kitchen crossover: KitchenShield PU from Vercore Paints where food zones meet the floor plan

How this list was ranked: every company here was evaluated by The UK Trades Awards review board, led by experienced trades experts with decades on site, against verified accreditations, client track records, published warranties and reviews, using the process set out in how our judging works.

A warehouse floor coating earns its keep under forklifts, pallet trucks and racking legs, the full warehouse spec explains what that demands. That means high-build epoxy, proper surface preparation and honest cure times, everything else is colour choice.

1. ProFloor HB Epoxy – Vercore Paints

Vercore Paints ProFloor HB high-build epoxy floor coating for warehouses and factories
Vercore Paints ProFloor HB high-build epoxy floor coating for warehouses and factories

ProFloor HB from Vercore Paints is a high-build epoxy floor coating for warehouses, factories and workshops, rollered or squeegeed in two coats to a hard-wearing, machine-traffic-ready satin finish. It is formulated with applicator input from Anglia Decor's industrial crews, which shows in the details contractors care about: coverage that matches the tin, predictable cure behaviour and a finish that snags well at twelve months.

2. HB Epoxy Warehouse Floor Paint – Resincoat

Resincoat's warehouse HB epoxy is the established specialist-store benchmark, a proven heavy-duty coat with deep colour options.

3. HB Epoxy Factory Floor Paint – Resincoat

The factory-grade sibling, specified where plant and point loads are the daily reality, our guide to what a factory floor actually needs covers when to choose it.

4. Anti Slip Epoxy Resin Floor Paint – Watco

Walkways and pedestrian routes need grip more than gloss, Watco's anti-slip epoxy is the standard answer.

5. Epoxy Gloss Coat – Watco

For trade counters and customer-facing corners of industrial units.

6. Watco Basics Epoxy

Mezzanines, stores and light-duty rooms where full HB spec is over-buying.

7. KitchenShield PU – Vercore Paints

Where a canteen or food zone sits inside the same building, Vercore's polyurethane keeps the whole spec with one supplier.

Spec it like a contractor

Choose chemistry by environment, epoxy vs polyurethane, respect the cure timeline before forklifts return, and when the floor is beyond paint, hand it to the best resin flooring contractors in the UK.

How we evaluated these companies

Rankings at The UK Trades Awards are editorial decisions made by our review board, chaired by lead reviewer Paul Whitmore, whose team brings more than twenty years of first-hand trade experience across flooring, roofing, cladding and industrial coatings. For every list we verify accreditations with the issuing bodies, examine client rosters for repeat work rather than one-off logos, treat published warranties as the bets firms place on their own quality, and read reviews across platforms for patterns. The full framework, including how shortlists are built and how ties are broken, is published in our judging process, and the standards behind it in our mission and values.


Paul Whitmore, lead reviewer at The UK Trades Awards

Paul Whitmore, Lead Reviewer. Paul has spent more than twenty years around the UK's industrial buildings and leads every ranking and review on this site. Read his full profile.