This new elevated tank overlooks Lake Superior in extreme northern Minnesota, and Thomas Industrial Coatings was hired to paint and protect it. Work started late in the fall season, bringing severely cold weather conditions into concern. Our crews worked quickly and efficiently, taking advantage of any windows in the weather we were given.
Thomas Industrial Coatings was commissioned to prepare and coat two smoke stacks at the Cynergy Gibson Station in southwestern Indiana.
This job proved to be quite a challenge, as short pot life materials were required.
This project involved abrasive blasting and the recoating of the interior and exterior sections of the Tainter gates at the lower end of each gate. The general contractor refurbished and replaced sections prior to our work. All work took place from the river using barges and work platforms.
Lock and Dam #24 is located near Clarksville, Missouri on the Mississippi. The main lock is 100 feet wide and 600 feet long. This facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
The Lavon Lakes Tainter gates project involved full containment, blasting to an SSPC-SP5 white-metal condition and the recoating of the Tainter gates for the US Army Corps of Engineers’ Fort Worth District.
The Tainter gate is a type of floodgate used in dams and canal locks to control water flow.
The Luling Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge over the Mississippi River in Louisiana. It was the third major cable-stayed bridge in the United States. The bridge is noted for its unique design. Unfortunately, however, the inside of the Luling developed significant rust due to a design flaw.
That’s where we came in to help.
We were hired for pressure washing and the SP-2 hand-tool cleaning of 140,000 square feet of wind fairing steel; patching of 2,500 square feet of voids in wind fairing with an epoxy/urethane fiberglass coating system; and the application of an epoxy/urethane fiberglass coating system to the interior of the wind fairing steel to the tune of approximately 140,000 square feet.
This is a job that we’re proud to have our name on. A unique challenge calls for a unique solution – and we delivered.
Thomas Industrial Coatings was hired to coat the Interstate 64 9th and 10th Street ramps in St. Louis.
We were commissioned to execute the following: SP-10 near-white blasting/deleading/application of zinc/epoxy/urethane coating system to all structural steel of the 9th and 10th street ramps, totaling 45,000 square feet; the rehabilitation of seven bearings; and brush blast and application of Type III Epoxy to areas of deteriorated concrete.
