General Polymers: resin floors and their EPD gap
General Polymers is Sherwin‑Williams’ long‑running resinous flooring line, now largely unified under the Resuflor naming. Architects know it for rugged epoxy, urethane, MMA, ESD, quartz and flake systems across healthcare, food, pharma, education, and industrial. The catalog is broad, with dozens to hundreds of SKUs when you count colors, primers, binders, and topcoats. The question specifiers ask in 2025 is simple. Which of these systems carry product‑specific EPDs that help projects hit LEED v5 targets without a documentation fight?
Who they are
General Polymers is the resinous flooring brand within Sherwin‑Williams Protective and Marine. The current web footprint routes to Sherwin‑Williams’ High Performance Flooring pages where legacy GP codes sit alongside Resuflor and Resutile families. The company’s broader sustainability materials live on Sherwin‑Williams’ site, see the Sustainability hub for context (Sherwin‑Williams Sustainability hub).
What they sell, in plain English
General Polymers covers the common resin floor chemistries. Epoxy primers and build coats, decorative quartz and flake, ESD systems, novolac chemistries for chemical areas, fast‑cure MMA for shutdowns, and cementitious urethane for thermal shock. System guides bundle primers, binders, broadcast media, and topcoats so one “system” can represent several SKUs.
How broad is the line
Catalog breadth is wide. Counting kit sizes and colors, the offer lands in the hundreds of SKUs. Individual workhorses like Resuflor 3746 binder and topcoat appear across many system build‑ups, and General Polymers 3745 remains a familiar code on project lists. That ubiquity is exactly why documentation coverage matters.
EPD coverage today
Sherwin‑Williams publishes many EPDs across its paint and coating portfolio, into the hundreds, but resinous flooring coverage in the US is comparatively thin. The flooring team’s EMEA pages state EPDs are available for selected products and verified to ISO 14025 and ISO 21930, which is promising for future alignment. In North America, publicly findable, product‑specific EPDs tied to GP or Resuflor systems remain limited as of December 2025. If you sell into EPD‑aware specs, that is a speed bump.
Why that matters on specs
Many owners and design teams assign a material carbon placeholder when there is no product‑specific EPD. That placeholder can be conservative. When a competitor shows a third‑party verified EPD, the path to selection is smoother, and the team avoids penalties in whole‑building carbon accounting. With LEED v5 in active development, the direction of travel is clear. Transparency wins more doors than it closes.
A likely workhorse without a public EPD example
Resuflor 3746 is marketed broadly for high build coats and as a gloss topcoat across industries, which makes it a good bellwether product to prioritize for an EPD if one is not already published in your selling region. By contrast, Sika lists a consolidated systems EPD covering ComfortFloor and several resinous systems in the NSF program, valid 12‑28‑2023 to 12‑28‑2028 (NSF International, 2024) (NSF International, 2024). In a head‑to‑head, an available EPD can be the nudge a specifier needs when two floors perform similarly.
Where General Polymers shows up
Healthcare corridors and OR support spaces. Food and beverage production and wash‑downs. Warehousing, light manufacturing, data rooms with ESD requirements, and education. These are precisely the project types where submittal checklists and procurement policies increasingly ask for EPDs. Teams want to pick the product and move on, not spend days hunting for alternates.
Who they usually compete with
Expect Sika for comfort resin and decorative systems, Stonhard for heavy‑duty epoxy and urethane cement, Dur‑A‑Flex in food and pharma, Flowcrete within Tremco CPG for hygienic polyurethane cement, and Tnemec or Tennant in certain epoxy builds. Not every catalog entry in those portfolios has an active US EPD, yet Sika’s NSF systems EPD is live through 2028 which keeps them present on EPD‑aware bid lists (NSF International, 2024).
Mind the gaps, then close them fast
If coverage is light, start with the hero systems that appear in most submittals. An epoxy build with moisture primer, a decorative quartz broadcast, an ESD build, and a cementitious urethane system for thermal shock. Pick a recent manufacturing reference year, confirm the right PCR for resinous floor coatings, and publish through a US program operator with strong AEC recognition so teams can find the document quickly. Prospective EPDs for new systems can bridge the gap if volumes are still maturing, then refresh after a full production year.
What great execution looks like
Make data collection painless for plants and product managers. Align on which sites and lines produce the declared SKUs, nail down utility and material records once, and set a simple cadence for updates. Publish the first wave for your most specified systems, then expand laterally by chemistry or by vertical market. It is tempting to wait for a perfect portfolio. Do not. Shipping a solid first four EPDs beats waiting twelve months for an everything release, it really does.
One more signal buyers notice
Sherwin‑Williams communicates its sustainability approach and documentation progress in a central place. Link that hub in the footer of every system guide and application instruction so specifiers land on the most current story without a scavenger hunt. That tiny step reduces submittal friction across dozens of projects.
Bottom line for GP
General Polymers has the brand recognition and product range to win specifications across demanding sectors. The commercial unlock now is simple. Match that breadth with findable, product‑specific EPDs for the core systems that get quoted every day. It is the kind of housekeeping that pays back quickly, and it is definately noticed by teams racing to close out documentation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does General Polymers publish product-specific EPDs for their resinous flooring in the United States?
As of December 2025, few GP or Resuflor resinous systems have publicly findable, US‑listed product‑specific EPDs. Sherwin‑Williams states EPDs are available for selected flooring products on its EMEA pages, and the company publishes many EPDs for architectural coatings, yet US resinous coverage appears comparatively thin.
Which competitor has a current resinous flooring EPD that specifiers might find?
Sika lists a consolidated systems EPD covering several resinous systems with NSF International. It is valid from 12‑28‑2023 through 12‑28‑2028, which can help on EPD‑aware bids (NSF International, 2024) (NSF International, 2024).
If we prioritize four EPDs for resin floors, which systems should go first?
Pick one epoxy build for general commercial, one decorative quartz or flake system, one ESD system for labs or electronics, and one cementitious urethane system for food and beverage or thermal‑shock areas. Those four cover the bulk of resinous use‑cases and keep bids moving.
Will older EPDs hurt our chances of being specified?
If an EPD is still valid, most buyers accept it without penalty. The real risk is having no EPD for a product family that competitors can document. Aim to refresh before the last few months of validity to avoid a coverage gap.
About the Author
Walker Ryan is a climate-tech entrepreneur focused on driving industrial decarbonization through better data. As the founder and CEO of Parq, he helps manufacturers generate high-quality, third-party–verified carbon disclosures at scale—accelerating a traditionally slow and expensive process. Before starting Parq, Walker led over $200 million in sustainability-focused investments as VP of Strategy & Growth at ReStream Solutions, following earlier experience in investment banking at Deutsche Bank. He brings a rare mix of capital markets expertise and hands-on sustainability knowledge to tackling the infrastructure of industrial emissions.
