Sponsored Content PPG PSX Polysiloxane Coatings Beautifully Corrosion Resistant By PPG PMC The PPG PSX family of polysiloxane coatings offers three distinct products to meet the color and corrosion-fighting demands of asset owners, architects, engineers and maintenance personnel around the world.
Preserving the USS Omaha’s Propulsion System By Anthony Punt A check-up of the USS Omaha revealed failed coatings on the vessel’s propulsion system, so a nearby crew came in to preserve the U.S. Navy vessel.
Tips for Securing an Early Completion Bonus By Lynn Connors, Global Marketing Manager of Liquid Applied Waterproofing at GCP Applied Technologies Get five tips on how to help ensure that you’ll be getting your completion bonuses on bridge projects — new and rehab
Composite Repair System Preserves Florida Oil Tank By Ben DuBose When the plant manager for a Florida oil and gas operating company discovered three holes in a sour crude oil tank, this emergency repair solution allowed the client to avoid total tank replacement.
Collage of the USS John F. Kennedy’s Critical Coatings Application By CoatingsPro Team The floating of the USS John F. Kennedy’s in October 2019 wouldn’t have been possible without the completion of the critical coatings by contractors Huntington Ingalls Industries.
Blast Off: New Coatings at Power Plant Turbine By Stephanie Marie Chizik Coating two inlet ducts and bell mouths for a turbine intake included confined space training and hot work permits from Belzona distributor Industrial Repair Technology.
Work of Art: New Coating System Lifts Texas Water Tank By Ben DuBose Even Hurricane Harvey couldn’t stop this award-winning crew in Katy, Texas, where a prominent water tank was restored with a multi-layered coating system.
Steel City Facility Floor Refresh By Stephanie Marie Chizik A facility in Pittsburgh needed a floor refresh and had only two days to complete it. The local contractor, Titan Floor Surface Technology, used a polyaspartic system to get the facility back and running by Sunday night.
Sponsored Content Spartan Blasting Media From Saint-Gobain By Saint-Gobain Despite inhibitions surrounding the use of silica sand, the term sandblasting is still widely accepted in the vernacular of surface roughening applications. This stems back to the origins of artificial abrasive blasting technologies.
A Shore Thing: Coating the New Pensacola Beach Water Tank By Karen D. Fisher Four crew members were mobilized in April 2019, making the long drive to western Florida to paint the approximately 21,000 square feet exterior of the concrete tank for reclaimed water, including the roof.
Flexible Coatings Crew Beats Heat at Australian Steel Plant By Ben DuBose The Australian applicator and distributor developed a novel approach when a steel production plant needed a solution to their issues with high temperatures and chemicals, which had taken a toll on many conventional coatings at their facility.
Epoxy Paste Protects Perimeter of Colombian Oil Tank By Ben DuBose When the perimeter of two welding rings on Ecopetrol’s naphtha storage tank in Colombia showed metal loss, an eight-person coatings crew from nearby Imantt Solutions applied a high-strength epoxy paste to combat the corrosion.
Steel Tank Touchup 30 Years in the Making By Stephanie Marie Chizik It’s not every day that a contractor can say they worked on a project that they’d initially coated some 30 years before, but that's what happened on this job at an industrial steel tank in Iowa. It was time to bring the tank’s system to the 21st century.
Russian Crew Paints ‘Sweet’ Mural for Gas Storage Tank By Anthony Punt O3-Engineering is a Moscow-based coatings company with extensive experience working with assets in demanding environments. As a result, they were a natural choice to provide anticorrosion coatings and passive fire protection solutions for Yamal LNG.
Repainting of WWII-Era Radio Towers By Karen D. Fisher LORAN towers have a history that reaches back to the early days of radio navigation. Five of these landmarks got a fresh coat of aviation orange and white in 2018, thanks to a team of painters who do all their painting while suspended by rope.