Delta Air Lines Flying High With Containment Coatings By Curt Harvey, Protective Coatings North America Linings Manager, Ceilcote Products for AkzoNobel Keeping the airline’s fleet of 725 planes in top shape is priority one for the carrier and is managed through the company’s Technical Operations Centers (TOC).
Loading Dock Coating Revamp By Jennifer Frakes As a part of the renovation of the Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center in the heart of Dallas, Texas, Chamberlin Roofing & Waterproofing was called in to assess and rehabilitate many areas of the convention center campus.
Snack Attack! Food Service Floor Back in Service By Stephanie Marie Chizik With any coatings job, there’s a recipe for success. The ingredients depend on the project, but the general equation is the same. Substrate + Intended Use + Proper Coatings and Application = System Success.
Fashion Forward Flooring By Linda Ferrer, Events Marketing and Public Relations for Dur-A-Flex, Inc. A Manhattan flooring contractor recently stumbled upon an opportunity to help Dur-A-Flex seamless, resinous flooring make its fashion debut…and find a new niche for his contracting business at the same time!
Science Behind It: Understanding Moisture Vapor Transmission and Moisture Mitigation By Pat Sicilia, Technical Director at Plexi-Chemie When it comes to moisture content within concrete substrates, it’s all about water and pressure. Water is the lifeblood of concrete — without enough water in a concrete pour, the substrate is weak and will crumble.
Flooring Ace at Arthur Ashe Stadium By Jennifer Frakes What these tennis enthusiasts don’t realize is that in the months leading up to the tournament, a crew from Infrastructure Repair Service (IRS) is hard at work repairing and recoating the concrete within the stadium.
Refrigerator Floor...Not for the Birds By Jennifer Frakes The application of an innovative 100 percent solids epoxy coating system, solves all the challenges of one particular project that was up against the clock.
Heavy Duty Stains Equals Aggressive Prep By Jennifer Frakes When Industrial Flooring Specialists arrived on the scene for a coatings job at a machine shop in New England, they found a concrete floor that was stained and in need of some serious surface preparation
SprayWorks Bridges Manpower and Robotic Innovation By Christa Youngpeter The time-saving, product-conserving, environmentally friendly machine is pushed around, fed all sorts of coating materials, and expected to do it all over again the next day.
Coatings Help Fight an “UpStream” Battle for Pollution Awareness By Christa Youngpeter If residents understand that storm water flows untreated to creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes, then they will be more conscious of potential pollutants that can enter those waterways