TMI Coatings Blog

TMI Coatings was contacted by a manufacturing facility in the upper Midwest that produces parts for hydraulics. This facility is very oily and dirty. The company contacted TMI to coat the ceiling. The ceiling was very oily and dirty due to the machining process. TMI hand cleaned/solvent wiped and dry ice blast to promote adhesion [...]

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Brad Stenzel, Inside Sales Representative, will be attending the 2011 GEAPS North Central Regional Conference and hosting the TMI Booth, June 28 – 29, 2011 in Ames, IA.

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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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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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For the 6th consecutive year, TMI rode in the MS150 bike ride from Duluth to the Twin Cities. The ride found the team starting their trip early morning in the fog, biking on trails all day until reaching Hinckley late afternoon.  The second day was spent riding on trails, through neighborhoods and beside Forest Lake [...]

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TMI Coatings, Inc., received national re-certification as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC), a regional certifying partner of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). WBENC’s national standard of certification implemented by the WBDC is a meticulous process including an in-depth review of the business and site inspection. The certification [...]

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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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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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TMI Coating’s crews are experienced with repairing and restoring fiberglass domes to return them to their original luster. UV ray weathering can cause fiberglass to deteriorate over time.  We clean the structure with high pressure washers to thoroughly remove mold, dirt and mildew.  TMI’s crews can repair holes with fiberglass patching and gel coating to [...]

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