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, Inc. completed exterior painting on a tank for the City of Owasso. TMI pressure washed, spot primed and over coated the tank exterior. TMI then applied two logos; 30’ in diameter, with text almost 40’ across. One of Owasso’s most famous residents is county music star Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks was a major [...]

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TMI Coatings, Inc. recently completed exterior painting on a tank for the City of Owasso. TMI pressure washed, spot primed and over coated the tank exterior. TMI then applied two logos; 30’ in diameter, with text almost 40’ across. One of Owasso’s most famous residents is county music star Garth Brooks. Garth Brooks was a [...]

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Last summer, TMI Coatings took on a job for a Wisconsin-based mechanical contracting and tank fabricating company. A two compartment large tank for a chemical storage company required new protective coating and insulation. TMI began by spot tool cleaning the weld seams and damaged shop applied coating on the tank exterior before applying primer, then [...]

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For a Midwestern dairy cooperative, TMI Coatings recently installed protective tank linings for a pair of corn sugar tanks located indoors. As they began the job, the TMI Coatings crew took care to protect all nearby equipment by poly wrapping to protect. They pressure washed the tanks to decontaminate them. Next, TMI sandblasted both the [...]

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TMI Coatings began the New Year with a project at a major Wisconsin university. The school had a couple of tanks that required new, corrosion resistant industrial linings. Upon arrival, the crew protected the surrounding area by poly wrapping equipment to protect from sand and dust. Then TMI proceeded to sandblast the interior of both [...]

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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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