TMI Coatings Blog

While winter may not necessarily seem like the ideal time to do exterior painting work, there are low temperature paints that can be applied in very cold weather.  Credible manufacturers of industrial paints and coatings make paints suitable for installation in cold weather.  The paint will cure down to 0° F. For example, TMI shoveled [...]

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A Wisconsin vegetable processing facility contacted TMI Coatings to remove the peeling paint from the concrete ceiling in their corn production area. To minimize dust to the remaining areas of the plant, TMI hung a reinforced poly curtain from the ceiling to seal off the portion of the plant in which we were sandblasting.  All [...]

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A Midwest plating company contacted TMI Coatings recently to clean and paint the ceiling of their plant.  Inside the plant are several open top tanks that contain the chemicals in which the parts are dipped.  Fumes from the chemical tanks caused the paint on the ceiling to peel, flake and yellow.  The chemical fumes had [...]

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TMI Coatings recently cleaned and painted a 16 1/2′ diameter x 185′ high hot stack in downtown St. Paul, MN.  TMI used an industrial paint system manufactured by Hi-Temp Coatings, specifically designed for high temperatures. Due to the location in downtown St. Paul, it was impractical to sandblast.  We pressure washed with Chlor-Rid per Hi-Temp [...]

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