TMI Coatings Blog

Big Soo Terminal, in northwest Iowa, is continually looking to make improvements to its facility. This year’s project included the painting of their two large oil tanks. The tanks were in need of sandblasting and painting to reduce corrosion and improve aesthesis. Following a safety meeting with all crew members, TMI Coatings began with preparing [...]

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TMI Coatings recently coated two combustion turbines for a large power company located in Wisconsin. Each of the combustion turbines had a large muffler (stack) on top of the turbine. Due to the stacks having extremely high temperatures, the existing coating was failing and there was severe corrosion of the steel surfaces. TMI prepared the [...]

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A local farmer’s co-op hired TMI Coatings to complete painting at multiple facilities. The owner was becoming increasingly concerned over the amount of corrosion on their equipment. TMI choose a combination of surface preparation methods including washing, waterblasting, grinding and scraping. TMI did not sandblast due to concerns for trucks in the area during the [...]

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A marina and yacht club on the St. Croix River hired TMI Coatings to sandblast and paint their rusty structural steel beneath their large pier located over the water. During the Spring and Summer seasons the river water is higher so to maximize the amount of exposed structural steel the project was completed during the [...]

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TMI Coatings recently began refurbishing the upstream side of 12 gates at a lock and dam on the 3rd largest reservoir in the state of Texas. Special scaffolding was built to access the area to be sandblasted and painted. Here one of our blasters is removing the existing coating. Containment tarps are being used to [...]

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TMI Coatings, Inc. is currently restoring a 1.8 million gallon water storage tank in Chattanooga, TN. A team of 8 men are on site vacuum blasting, sandblasting, painting and welding. TMI will be sandblasting, repairing, and painting the interior and exterior of the water storage tank. TMI will also be restoring Phillip D. Glass, the [...]

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A leading North American manufacturer of roofing materials hired TMI Coatings to sandblast and paint their thermal oxidizer. A thermal oxidizer is a process unit for air pollution control that decomposes hazardous gases at a high temperature and releases them into the atmosphere. TMI erected scaffold and a reinforced poly enclosure with negative air to [...]

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TMI Coatings recently completed stairway and handrail painting for the largest commercial real estate company in Minnesota. TMI sandblasted, painted and installed non slip flooring on stairs and landings. Full containment was required to contain sandblast sand dust during sandblasting to minimize emissions and damage to parked vehicles. The benefits of painting the staircase tower [...]

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TMI Coatings coated the exterior of approximately 40,000 square feet of exterior block and concrete surfaces at a large manufacturing facility located in the Midwest.  TMI prepared the surface by water blasting to remove the flaking paint.  TMI completed considerable concrete repair and caulking prior to applying the two coats of coating.   After a walk [...]

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This spring, TMI Coatings did a job for one of the world’s largest privately held milling companies in the world. This project done in Houston, Texas is to clean and paint seven stories of a mill stairwell including the ceilings, walls and steps.  TMI began by cleaning all surfaces to prepare for the new paint [...]

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