TMI Coatings Blog

A southern Minnesota manufacturing facility requested that TMI Coatings recommend a flooring system for their injection molding area floor.  This company manufactures bronze outdoor signs and letters.  The floor is 7,000 sq. ft. and subject to foot traffic.  Approximately 900 sq. ft. has forklifts and pallet jacks running across it on a regular basis.  TMI [...]

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A Midwest manufacturer of gear boxes, disc brakes and clutches requested TMI Coatings to recommend and install a floor coating in their machine area which was approximately 16,785 sq. ft. including striping in the aisles. The customer was ordering new machines and moving machines so this project had to be completed in four job mobilizations. [...]

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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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A food processing and manufacturing facility in central IA requested TMI Coatings line the interior of their DAF (dissolved air flotation) tank. The DAF tank is used in their water treatment process to clarify wastewater by the removal of suspended matter such as oil or solids. The wastewater is corrosive and the steel of the [...]

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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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Dry ice blasting, commonly referred to as CO2 blasting, is an effective way to clean your equipment and/or facility when disassembly is impractical, or where sensitive equipment i.e. controls, electrical boxes, lights or similar exist in the area. One of the advantages of dry ice blasting is it cleans and removes contaminants while leaving adjacent [...]

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An energy company hired TMI Coatings to repair the corrugated metal roof of their shop building that was experiencing leaking problems. TMI cleaned the roof and then replaced all missing fasteners and resecured remaining fasteners on the roof. A urethane elastomer coating was applied to all seams and around all penetrations to provide a waterproof [...]

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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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TMI Coatings completed a large painting project for an animal feed manufacturer located in western Minnesota. TMI painted their feed mill tower, hand rails, distributor and spouts. The owner was concerned about the corrosion beginning to form on the feed mill as well as aesthetics as the feed mill is the largest structure in town. [...]

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