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.
Tips for Writing a Coatings Contractor Résumé By Chloe Bennett, Editor at Academized.com The résumé is of particular importance for coatings contractors and other paint and sealant technicians to highlight skills, past work, and future prospects.
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.
Sky’s the Limit for Florida Condo Roofs By Stephanie Marie Chizik Despite various challenges, the eight-man crew from Unicoat Industrial Roofing Corporation successfully coated two roofs at a condo facility in Florida with silicone products and could soon be back for more.
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.
Is Your Company Prepared for an Unexpected “Storm”? By Tom Grandy, Founder of Grandy & Associates None of us can ever be totally prepared for every storm, but there are some logical steps that you can take to help prepare yourself, should the storm come.
Big Floor Fix for Big Ten Teams By Stephanie Marie Chizik The 5,000-square-foot kitchen area floor at the University of Minnesota’s new Athletes Village required a bit of finessing from EDC Install Solutions Inc.
Moos and Blues: Dairy Farm Barn Roof Goes Baby Blue By Karen D. Fisher A 1940s barn roof on a Wisconsin dairy farm was showing signs of age and even had bullet holes in its metal panels. Gardner Roof Coatings coated the panels with an elastomeric coating that included a colorful topcoat — much to the delight of the farmer’s wife.
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.
Potential Financial Impacts of Workplace Violence By Gary Sheely, Associate and Tactical Confrontation Specialist at the Safety Institute Workplace violence can happen, but what are the potential short- and long-term financial impacts?