Tony Prince Company Offers “Green,” Low-Profile Data Floor

Tony Prince Company has been named an approved provider and installer for the FreeAxez USA, a "green," low profile, modular data flooring system.

FreeAxez is a raised flooring and access flooring systems for wire management and cable management. The all steel, quick-connect low profile access floor provides a strong, stable raised floor. A flooring installer can put 1,000 square feet in place in a day, Prince Company President Tony Prince said.

Over 20 million square feet of FreeAxez raised floor are installed worldwide.

The modular design of the gravity-held FreeAxez raised floor / access floor / computer floor supports rapid installation. Components snap together with no glue, screws, or fasteners. Installation time is a fraction of conventional tall raised floor designs, Prince said. Unlike the tall raised floors, the FreeAxez low-profile raised access floor does not require labor intensive gluing or bolting of pylons to the floor surface and fastening of screws into panels.

Prince said that the double 16-gauge zinc galvanized steel modules support 1,900 PSI. The system is available in two fixed floor heights—2.75 or 1.60 inches — which  he said is  the lowest profile available anywhere. "To put that into perspective, the raised floor is about the height of two sheets of plywood. Most raised flooring installations are over four inches and often require ceiling adjustments, as well as slope and rail additions," Prince said.

FreeAxez is the low-profile access floor listed in the GreenSpec directory of environmentally preferred products. Owners and designers gain LEED credits by specifying FreeAxez. Key green attributes include that the product is: approved for non-plenum-rated cable; promotes building re-use and preservation; recyclable and reusable; and refundable via a FreeAzez buyback program.

Tony Prince Company has been a St. Louis-based, family-owned firm, interior surface supplier and installer since 1947.

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