Insulating Chemical Tanks in Texas By Ben DuBose When Flowchem decided to expand and upgrade its plant in 2017, they needed a proven contractor they could trust to insulate three stainless steel (SS) product tanks and one plastic water tank at their home base — all while matching the exterior appearance to other white tanks at the facility.
6 Risky Misconceptions About Workplace Violence By Gary Sheely, Tactical Confrontation Specialist at the Safety Institute Knowledge is power. False knowledge exposes everyone to risk. This is especially true when evaluating your workplace for the risk of workplace violence.
Why Training Means a Lot to Millennials By Evan Hackel, CEO of Tortal Training Today, most millennial workers would object strenuously to the same kind of conditions that baby boomers (and members of the generation that preceded them) thought were normal.
Windy City Condos Restored With White Silicone Roof By Ben DuBose When building owners wanted a more efficient update to the building’s mechanically attached ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) black roof, a less invasive application process was strongly preferred.
Fast-Curing Polyurea System Boosts Flexibility at Busy Jobsite By Ben DuBose When MarkWest Energy began developing plans for a new gas compressor station in the area, they wanted construction solutions they could both trust and install quickly — allowing them to take advantage of reserves as quickly as possible!
Philadelphia Bridge Coating Job Looks Made for Hollywood By Ben DuBose Nearly 60 years of exposure to the elements can pose quite a corrosive threat to a bridge’s structural integrity.
Summer School for Five Mississippi Roofs By Stephanie Marie Chizik The school district’s roofs were metal, wood, built-up, or covered in spray polyurethane foam (SPF), and they were leaking. The crew had little time and lots to cover.
Predict-Ability: How Partnering Scorecards Can Dictate a Project’s Success By Sue Dyer, President of OrgMetrics LLC How would you like to be able to predict the level of success — or failure — of your projects? Well, it seems that reality is closer than you might think.
Greatest Hits: Surface Prep Success By Josh Thomas, Business Manager for Thomas Industrial Coatings To help strive toward a successful partnership and effectively obtain the proper surface preparation (or perhaps any standard) on a new or existing project, here are a few things we have found that add to our success.
Hungry for Change on Food Facility Floor By Stephanie Marie Chizik It would take a coatings crew that was just as confident to take the nearly bare concrete and turn it into a beefy urethane floor with all the fixins.