Advantages & Technology

Companies all over the world trust TuffTrak with their ground protection and safety needs. The primary reason you can trust TuffTrak is because we have over 10 years track record of providing highly effective safety solutions that save lives and protect assets.

TuffTrak takes the safety of your people and assets very seriously. This means working directly with industry experts and safety managers to design products that fit the specific needs of their working environments. Our product development takes place on worksites where our engineers experience the safety challenges firsthand, which allows them to understand the conditions and circumstances where our products will be required to perform. Through this process, we gain the knowledge and insight to ensure every one of our customers’ needs is satisfied.

Why Ground Protection Mats?

Ground conditions play a significant role in field operations and projects that need access to remote sites. Wet, muddy, or uneven ground conditions can cause projects to be delayed or even halted. This can lead to significant commercial losses such as unrecoverable management time, loss of reputation, effect on future workloads, and the impact on project completion and profits. Unstable ground conditions are also a frequent cause of minor incidents and near misses on sites. Even worse, complete failure of the ground has caused serious injuries and fatalities.

TuffTrak trackway panels get heavy equipment safely through mud, sand, snow, and swampland conditions by creating temporary access roadways and working platforms. Access to and from remote sites and a stable work area is a critical safety solution in the oil & gas, drilling, transmission, renewable energy, utilities, civil engineering, infrastructure, and construction industries.

Ground protection mats also prevent environmental damage to agricultural land, heritage sites, or sensitive ecosystems and cross-contamination between sites. Ground protection mats can also be used for stadiums, events, golf courses, landscaping, tree care, cemeteries; wherever saving the costs of remedial ground restoration is a factor. Ground protection mats are used to create temporary access roads, parking lots, or walkways providing safe pedestrian and access routes for the duration of an event. Eliminating damage or severe rutting to ground and landscaping TuffTrak matting can ensure that vehicles, machinery, and people can move freely on projects without becoming stuck in the mud or damaging sensitive ground, natural grass, or turf.

Turf protection panels and mats were specifically developed for applications that demand precautions be used to avoid the burning and/or brown-out effects of heat caused by the sun and high heat work environment. Some specific applications will be found in the turf and landscape markets such as golf courses, irrigation, and pool installers as well as for events and in stadiums.

TuffTrak ground protection mats are the popular choice among professionals. They are easy to use, quick to deploy, lock into place to form a continuous, solid, safe, and durable roadway or working platform. They are unequaled for quality and performance even under the most hazardous conditions.=

The TuffTrak Mission:

Our mission is to create value for our partners, by delivering innovative safety products and being:

• Customer Focused
• Market, Technology, and Innovation Driven
• Committed to Excellence
• Respectful and adhering to the highest level of integrity
• Socially responsible within the community and developing our employees

Innovative Mat Design

Designed with safety in mind, TuffTrak products incorporate several key features that deliver and maximize performance and safety.

Material

Our mats are manufactured from High Density or Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene making them light yet durable. Unlike wood, TuffTrak products won’t chip, crack or rot. The composite material is chemically inert to avoid leaching of contaminants, non-conductive, puncture-resistant, weatherproof, water-resistant, resistant to corrosion from acids, alkalies, and solvents.

By nature, the physical performance properties of polyethylene are unaffected by extreme temperatures. Our mats have been successfully used in diverse temperature extremes ranging from the very cold of mountain glaciers in Tibet to extended heat situations found in the Middle East.

TuffTrak ground protection matting range has load capacities that can exceed 200 tons making them suitable for the heaviest vehicles.

Key challenges with transmission projects include the high risk of theft due to the length and remoteness of projects which makes composite materials more suitable than aluminium or metal plates, therefore, avoiding the need for security costs.

Product Structure

TuffTrak has a range of solid mats compression molded from one piece to avoid puncturing, but are flexible enough to adjust to undulating ground.

TuffTrak TTXT has a foam-filled core to keep the mat above extremely wet or boggy areas and to prevent the intake of liquids, reducing the threat of invasive species or cross-contamination between job sites. On the contrary, the TerraRoad has a unique conical underside adapting and molds to the ground to act as a natural stabilizer.

Traction

We understand that effective and safe vehicle traction is a key issue in every temporary access project and is fundamental to the health and safety of on-site personnel. To further increase safety, our unique chevron traction® surface design delivers ultimate grip and helps to dispel mud whilst vehicles traverse over them. The chevron design also reduces sideways movement and slippage delivering optimal forward traction for heavy vehicles and machinery.

Overlap

Overlap trackway panels are designed with an overlapping edge to provide a seamless connection between the panels, eliminating leakage of mud from the ground below. Using the overlap connectors, the adjacent mats can be locked firmly together creating a monolithic working platform delivering superior strength. Further, the overlaps create a semi-barrier to the surface below helping to prevent mud and sludge from oozing up through the joints and contaminating the work surface.

Connections

We have a range of connector options available to suit different ground conditions including specialist connectors for undulating ground, and our more robust Four3™ connector providing a secure roadway or working platform on our TTXT. The special format of these connection points creates the opportunity for the positional adjustment of mats allowing various configurations. The combination of these features and our industry expertise makes our ground protection solutions the perfect choice for creating safe access on any project.

Our team then uses innovation and advanced manufacturing processes to create effective products that can withstand the harshest weather and working conditions that exist in industrial applications. At this point, we again involve industry experts and safety managers to field-test our products under extreme working conditions. We also submit our products to independent third-party contractors for testing and compliance evaluations. This rigorous testing protocol ensures our products meet or exceed all industry compliance regulations and standards.

Our service professionals are trained to understand the safety issues in many industries. We can quickly help you find the right safety products to protect your people and bring your business into compliance.

Heavy Duty Matting

TuffTrak has a full range of market-leading heavy-duty composite ground protection mats delivering a safer working environment for temporary access roadways, trackways, and working platforms. Our heavy-duty mats are capable of supporting heavy loads up to 600 psi* and are highly resilient even in the most extreme weather and ground conditions. With our diverse range of heavy-duty mats, TuffTrak is able to provide you with a heavy-duty ground protection solution for any application.

Advantages of Medium Duty Matting

• We work with safety managers and industry experts to develop matting that provides the highest level of reliability
• Medium Duty matting supports up to 120 ton* loads
• Rugged 1/2″ thick recycled polyethylene
• Bold surface design for great traction
• Leaves turf smooth, even in soft conditions
• Replaces plywood, which splinters, warps, and becomes water logged
• Easy to clean mats by simply hosing down
• Mats can be locked together, forming a continuous roadway or workable platform