Black heel marks occur in a floor coating when the heel or sole of a shoe leaves
residue on the floor after a shoe scuffs or scrapes the coating surface. Grocery carts, platform
trucks, hand trucks and fork lifts can all produce black marks.
By reducing the coefficient of
friction of the coating, carefully selected waxes such as HDPE will have better mobility across
a coating surface improving the heel mark resistance.
Thanks to its heel mark resistance property, wax emulsions are used in Floor Polish.
