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.
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.