Metallizing Offers Long-Term Protection for the Lavaca Causeway By Karen D Fisher Only a few coatings contractors also offer cathodic protection and metallizing. So when the longest bridge in Texas needed major rehabilitation, M&J Construction of Pinellas County Inc. was able to answer the call on all fronts.
Roll On Rock Around the Clock: Resort Gets New Coating By Anthony Punt After the contractor performed a sample balcony installation of a two-part epoxy flake system, the resort’s management team was convinced to use it for numerous vacation facilities, starting with Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Tips for Maintaining Plural-Component Spray Equipment By Natasha Jacobs, Vice President of Customer Experience at Spray Foam Systems Follow these five maintenance guidelines to get the most out of your plural-component equipment with every passing year.
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.
Beat the Heat: Cool Roof for California Apartments By Karen D. Fisher Cool roofing has become part of the solution to a growing issue with urban heat and climate change. This coatings crew from California helped restore an apartment building roof by applying cool roof coatings to beat the heat.
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.