Traction Hog Mats

Enhance comfort and safety with Traction Hog Mats, engineered for both dry and damp environments. Perfect for industrial and food service areas, these mats provide reliable protection and support in high-traffic settings.

Key Features of Traction Hog Mats

• Superior Comfort: 5/8" thick nitrile-blended foam minimizes fatigue and offers excellent cushioning for extended standing periods.
• Enhanced Traction: Slip-resistant, silicone carbide-coated surface ensures secure footing in wet and oily conditions.
• Anti-Microbial Protection: Provides lifetime defense against odors and material degradation, maintaining a clean environment.
• Easy Maintenance: Lightweight and flexible design allows for effortless cleaning and handling, saving time and effort.
• Safe Design: Beveled edges facilitate smooth cart movement and reduce tripping hazards. Certified high-traction by NFSI ensures top safety standards.
• Durable & Resistant: Resistant to oil, grease, and chemicals, ensuring longevity and performance in harsh environments.
• Versatile Applications: Ideal for use in wet, slippery manufacturing areas, coolers, freezers, kitchens, and other demanding spaces.
• Slip Resistant Surface: Meets ASTM C1028-96 with a coefficient of friction of .78 dry, providing reliable slip resistance.
• Customizable Options: Available with or without drainage holes to suit specific installation needs and preferences.

Why Choose Traction Hog Mats?

By selecting Traction Hog Mats, you invest in a durable and versatile solution that enhances safety and comfort in your workspace. Trust our high-quality mats to deliver exceptional performance and support your operational needs effectively.

Corrugated Rubber Matting

Corrugated Rubber Matting provides superior traction and floor protection in high-traffic and industrial environments. The ribbed, corrugated rubber runner surface offers enhanced slip resistance, making it ideal for wet or dry areas where safety is a priority. Its durable rubber construction ensures long-lasting performance, making it perfect for a wide range of applications, from warehouses to workshops.

Key Features of Corrugated Rubber Matting

• Slip-Resistant Surface: The corrugated rubber runner design improves grip, reducing the risk of slips and falls in both wet and dry conditions.
• Durable Construction: Made from high-quality rubber, this matting is designed to withstand heavy foot traffic and daily wear and tear.
• Floor Protection: Protects floors from damage caused by heavy equipment, tools, and other industrial activities.
• Easy to Install: Available in rolls, corrugated rubber matting is easy to cut and customize for various spaces and applications.
• Low Maintenance: Resistant to moisture and most chemicals, making it easy to clean and maintain for long-term use.
• Versatile Applications: Ideal for industrial settings, garages, warehouses, and workstations where safety and durability are essential.

Perfect for Industrial and Commercial Use

Corrugated Rubber Mats are the perfect solution for creating a safe and durable surface in industrial and commercial environments. Its slip-resistant and heavy-duty design makes it ideal for protecting both workers and floors in high-traffic areas.

Corrugated rubber matting is a durable, slip-resistant flooring material designed for high-traffic areas and industrial environments. Its corrugated surface provides enhanced traction, reducing the risk of slips and falls. This type of corrugated rubber matting is often used for floor protection and to improve safety in workplaces, entryways, and other areas prone to moisture or heavy use.

KleenRite Rubber Matting

KleenRite Rubber Matting offers superior protection and slip resistance in industrial and commercial environments. Designed with a durable rubber construction and a ripple surface pattern, this matting ensures safety and long-lasting performance in high-traffic areas. Ideal for wet or dry conditions, KleenRite matting provides a secure footing, reducing the risk of slips and falls.

Key Features of KleenRite Rubber Matting

• Slip-Resistant Ripple Surface: The textured ripple design enhances traction, providing a secure surface in both wet and dry conditions.
• Durable Rubber Construction: Made from high-quality rubber, this matting is built to withstand heavy foot traffic and harsh industrial environments.
• Floor Protection: Protects floors from wear and tear, impacts, and heavy equipment, ensuring long-term durability.
• Easy to Clean: Designed for low maintenance, the matting can be easily cleaned with a hose or broom, making it ideal for busy industrial settings.
• Versatile Applications: Suitable for workshops, warehouses, garages, and other areas where slip resistance and durability are crucial.
• Custom Sizing Available: Available in custom lengths to meet the needs of any space, ensuring a perfect fit for your facility.

Perfect for Industrial and Commercial Settings

KleenRite Rubber Matting is the ideal solution for providing a safe, durable, and slip-resistant surface in high-traffic industrial and commercial environments. Its tough construction and easy maintenance make it perfect for long-term use in demanding conditions.

Multi-Mat II is a reversible drainage mat that offers anti-slip traction in wet or greasy areas. Its reversible construction design adds to the service life of the mat and a drainage system removes liquids from the work area. A low profile allows for easy cart access.

• Multi-Mat has excellent cushioned support, and is easy to clean.
• Raised knobs facilitate drainage. Dirt and grease flush away easily.
• Non-skid in even wet greasy conditions. Lightweight for ease of handling.
• 3/8" thick
• Custom sizes available

Non-slip kitchen floor mats have one job, and this runner does it about as well as rubber can. It is a thin, solid nitrile sheet built to hold grip on a floor that has water, grease, or cleaning chemicals on it. It is a traction and floor protection mat, not a cushioned comfort mat, and knowing that up front saves you a return.

What a Non-Slip Kitchen Runner Does Before the Floor Gets Slick

Kitchen floors get dangerous in the walking lanes, not at the stations. Someone carries a hot pan from the range to the pass, crosses a wet patch by the dish area, and their footing is the only thing between them and the tile. That lane is where a traction runner belongs.

The measured grip on this one is unusually high. Under ASTM C1028-96 it holds a static coefficient of friction of 0.97 dry and 0.93 wet. A lot of surfaces look fine on a dry test and collapse when water is introduced. This one gives up very little.

It is also certified high-traction by the National Floor Safety Institute, which runs independent slip-resistance testing for commercial floor products. That certification is a third-party check on the numbers rather than a manufacturer's own claim.

The second job is protecting what is underneath. A rubber runner takes the dropped pans, the dragged crates, and the cart wheels that would otherwise chip tile or gouge a sealed floor. On a quarry tile line, that is the difference between resealing on schedule and repairing early.

Why Solid Nitrile Rubber, and Why This One

This mat is one material all the way through: solid nitrile rubber, 1/8 inch thick. There is no cushion layer, no fabric, and no backing to come apart. Nothing is bonded to anything, so there is no seam or glue line that can fail.

That construction is what lets it survive a kitchen. It is grease and oil proof and chemical resistant, so nightly sanitizing does not degrade it. It will not crack or curl, and the manufacturer states it provides years of service life.

The heat tolerance is where it separates from ordinary rubber matting. Melt point is over 500 degrees Fahrenheit, and it has been tested at temperatures up to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit for welding and slag resistance. In a kitchen that means a dropped ember or a hot pan is a non-event.

It also carries an ESD rating of electrically conductive and passes flammability standard BS 4790, tested by the metal nut method. Those are specifications you rarely need in a kitchen and absolutely need in a plant, which is why the same mat covers both rooms. The mat is made in the USA and is rated for indoor use.

The 1/8-inch profile matters more than it sounds. A thin mat lies flat, so carts and hand trucks roll across it instead of catching an edge, and it does not eat door clearance. That thinness is the trade-off for having no cushion.

Where It Belongs, and What It Will Not Do

Put it in the walking lanes and the transition zones. The path between the range and the pass, the strip in front of a dish machine, the run along a bar back, the approach to a walk-in, the stretch of floor by an ice machine. Anywhere feet move across a floor that gets wet.

It works the same way outside a kitchen. Production aisles, wash bays, machine approaches, and any indoor commercial or industrial floor that needs more slip resistance or protection than the floor itself provides.

Here is what it will not do: relieve fatigue. There is no cushion in it, so standing on this all shift feels much like standing on the floor. If someone holds one spot for hours, they need a cushioned anti-fatigue mat instead. The full range of kitchen mats covers both needs, and most working kitchens end up using each in different places.

The common mistake is buying one mat for both jobs. A comfort mat in a walking lane gets destroyed by cart traffic; a traction runner at a prep station leaves people sore. Split the floor by what happens on it and buy accordingly.

Three Things to Check Before You Spec It

First, map the lane, not the room. Walk the path people actually take and note where it crosses wet floor. Seven sizes are available, from 2' x 3' (23" x 32") up to 4' x 12' (46" x 143"), including 3' x 9', 3' x 12', 4' x 6', and 4' x 9'. Long lanes usually need two runners end to end rather than one oversized mat.

Second, decide between a 3-foot and a 4-foot width. Three feet covers a single-file lane where people pass one at a time. Four feet is the right call where two staff pass each other carrying things, or where a cart and a person share the lane at the same time.

Third, confirm the standing zones are covered separately. This runner handles the walking. If the same kitchen has a fry station or a prep table where someone stays put, that spot needs a cushioned mat. Specifying both at once is cheaper on your time than discovering the gap after install.

Why Mats Inc.

We stock this runner because it answers a question comfort matting cannot: how do you make a wet lane safe without putting something in the way of a cart. A thin, solid rubber sheet with a 0.93 wet traction rating does that, and nothing about it needs babying. Mats Inc. has been sorting floors into standing zones and moving zones since 1964, and this is what goes in the moving ones.

Specifications

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this an anti-fatigue mat?

Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO

No, and it is worth being direct about that. This is solid nitrile rubber at 1/8 inch thick, one material the whole way through. There is no foam cushion, so it does not compress under you and it will not relieve leg or back fatigue.

What that construction buys you instead is grip, floor protection, and a mat that survives conditions a cushioned mat cannot. If your problem is people standing in one spot getting sore, you want a cushioned comfort mat. If your problem is a slick floor in a walking lane, this is the right product.

How much grip does it actually have, and what can it take?

Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO

The tested figures are 0.97 dry and 0.93 wet under ASTM C1028-96. The wet number is what matters in a kitchen, and losing only four hundredths between dry and wet is the useful part. It is also certified high-traction by the National Floor Safety Institute.

On the abuse side, it is grease and oil proof, chemical resistant, and welding safe. Melt point is over 500 degrees Fahrenheit, and it has been tested at temperatures up to 1800 degrees for welding and slag resistance. It also passes flammability standard BS 4790 and carries an ESD rating of electrically conductive.

Where should it go in a working kitchen?

Answered by Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO

In the lanes people walk, especially the wet ones. The run between the range and the pass, the strip in front of the dish machine, the path to the walk-in, the floor by an ice machine, and the space behind a bar are all standard placements. It is rated for indoor use.

The 1/8-inch profile is a real advantage in those spots. It lies flat enough that carts and hand trucks roll straight over it rather than catching an edge, and it does not interfere with door swing. Cleaning is a deck brush scrub with a neutral pH detergent, then a hose or pressure washer rinse. Lay it flat or hang it to dry, and do not put it back down wet.

What sizes come in a runner length?

Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing

Seven sizes, and four of them are true runner proportions: 3' x 9' (32" x 108") at 20.9 lbs., 3' x 12' (32" x 143") at 27.9 lbs., 4' x 9' (46" x 108") at 28 lbs., and 4' x 12' (46" x 143") at 37.4 lbs. The shorter options are 2' x 3' (4.7 lbs.), 3' x 5' (11.6 lbs.), and 4' x 6' (18.7 lbs.).

Those weights are worth knowing before cleaning day, since someone has to lift the mat to hose it down. For a lane longer than twelve feet, run two mats end to end rather than looking for one long piece. Measure the lane first and allow a little tolerance, since rubber shrinks and expands with temperature and time and finished sizes run within about 3% to 5% of nominal.

What does it look like, and will it suit a visible area?

Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing

Understated, and more finished-looking than most people expect from a safety mat. The surface carries a raised tread molded across the whole face in a fine repeating pattern, so it reads as texture rather than as machinery. At 1/8 inch it sits low and flat against the floor instead of standing proud of it.

That low profile is what lets it work in semi-visible spots like a bar back, a service corridor, or a cafeteria floor, where a thick mat would look like an obstacle. For a front-of-house floor that customers stand on and look at, a fabric-topped comfort mat is still the better-looking answer.

Would this work in a home kitchen?

Answered by Jinna Hopson, Vice President of Marketing

It can, but it is usually more mat than a home needs and less comfort than a home wants. Most people shopping for a kitchen mat at home are after cushion underfoot at the sink or the stove, and this one does not provide that.

Where it genuinely fits at home is a slick tile floor that has become a problem, or a spot that takes real abuse, such as a mudroom-to-kitchen transition or the floor by a utility sink. If comfort is the goal, tell us where you stand longest and we will point you at a cushioned option instead.

By Dustin Thompson, Owner & CEO, Mats Inc.