TMI Coatings Blog

ADM Milling, on Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis, recently contracted with TMI Coatings to paint the railway side and Hiawatha Avenue side of their three steel wheat elevator bins.  Each side is 131’ L x 80’ H.  The team began by installing ground protection surrounding the tanks.  The team sandblasted within containment to minimize dust to [...]

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TMI Coatings recently received a contract award to clean and paint a 10,000 sq. ft. building for a large moving and storage company. After completing extensive prep work and removing downspouts, we pressure washed with a special additive to remove mold and mildew from the building surface. The team replaced missing metal fasteners and secured [...]

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TMI Coatings recently repaired and coated a 6’ wide x 38’ high brick chimney near the new Twins stadium in Minneapolis, MN which is located blocks from the new Twins stadium.   After relocating all vehicles to avoid damage from any possible overspray, we removed any loose, disbonded bricks on the top of the chimney. The team [...]

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TMI Coatings, Inc. has teamed up with Cargill Deicing Technology and is an approved installer for their SafeLane® surface overlay product . The SafeLane® HDX product is a surface overlay designed for increased safety and infrastructure protection. This two-coat polymer epoxy significantly reduces ice and frost formation on surfaces while protecting infrastructure from corrosion and chloride [...]

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A correctional facility in the Midwest was experiencing problems with their entryway floors and stairwells in one of the buildings housing their inmates.  Snow, water and mud tracked into the entryways resulted in making these areas extremely slippery. They looked to TMI Coatings for a solution. Our TMI team applied a traffic deck coating with [...]

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TMI Coatings recently completed roof coating work at a Co-Op facility in North Dakota.  The roof areas were leaking, corroding and in need of repair. The team began by pressure washing the roof and abrading rusty areas using stiff bristle brooms.  When the prep was complete, the project team applied a urethane elastomer coating around [...]

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TMI Coatings was contracted to prepare interior and exterior surfaces of two tanks and the structural steel frames around the tanks. Our customer had concerns about dust and paint chips traveling to adjacent rooms. We used poly to section off areas to reduce this risk and installed ground covering. The TMI team mechanically abraded the [...]

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Is peeling or flaking paint an issue at your plant?  Do you have wet environments where areas have been painted and repainted and the paint will not adhere?  A Wisconsin food processing plant has been dealing with these issues and wanted a solution to their ever present peeling paint problems. You may be familiar with [...]

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A Minnesota college was encountering water problems with water leaking into their building and flooding an electrical control room located in the basement.  The water was penetrating through the concrete slab located next to the building and through the brick building wall. The TMI Coatings team applied a traffic deck coating to the raised concrete platform, [...]

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While on site completing restoration and coating of silos and a head house at a grain facility in Iowa, TMI Coatings prepared and coated a conveyor over the Mississippi River, including the catwalk, structural walkway, staircase, bents, tower and barge load out spout. The existing paint on the conveyor contained lead so TMI had to [...]

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