Water tanks play a critical role in ensuring a reliable and safe water supply for communities, industries, and agriculture. To maintain their longevity and structural integrity, protective coating systems are essential. However, not all coatings are created equal, and selecting the right one is crucial for the tank’s performance and durability.
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A Coatings Solution for Ralls County Water Treatment Plant
By: Paul Powers, Mid-Central Regional Manager for Induron Protective Coatings In order to better serve its surrounding community, Ralls County in Hannibal, Missouri planned to construct a new water treatment plant. Klingner and Associates, a multi-office engineering group in the midwest, was awarded the challenge to design the new facility.
Project Spotlight: Hamilton Township, NJ Water Tank Repaint
By: Steve Freed, Induron Regional Sales Manager Aqua New Jersey’s 2-million-gallon standpipe water tank on location at their headquarters in Hamilton, NJ was in need of rehabilitation. Because the standpipe is visible from the highly-traveled highway I-195, Aqua keeps the tank in tip-top shape.
A Day on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail
By: Joey Thomas, Induron Business Development Manager As the sun rose on October 4th 2023, golfers from around Alabama (and this lucky Business Development Manager from Kentucky) gathered together in Muscle Shoals to take on the famously-challenging Fighting Joe course. With long fairways, dunes-like mounds and plenty of water and sand, the course represents an … Read More
Questioning our Assumptions about Primers in Immersion and their Place in the Water Industry: A Brief, Plain English Summary
By: William Seawell, Technical Service Manager In July 2023 Materials Performance Magazine published a white paper sponsored by Induron Coatings detailing various technical reasons that the common engineering understanding about the galvanic mechanism of action in organic urethane zinc primers deserves re-examining at the systemic level.
What is going on in the T&D Market?
By: Ben Rowland, Induron T&D Sales The T&D market for Induron has seen a lot of activity in recent months. There are increasingly more discussions amongst major utilities regarding the FERC Order that went into effect over a year ago now.
A New Look for TL-70
By: Andy Odorzynski, Induron National Sales Manager Coatings for the water tank industry have undergone major changes in recent years. The implementation of NSF-600, supply chain woes, and new technological innovation have all come together to result in a more rapidly changing set of linings than the industry has seen for quite some time. While … Read More
Project Spotlight: Brighton, MI Tank Rehab
By: Rob Burckley, Induron Technical Sales and Service Manager Recently, Induron partnered with G&L Sandblasting and Painting and Dixon Engineering to complete this 770,000-gallon tank for the City of Brighton, Michigan.
Meet the Newest Member of the Induron Team: Yvette Box
We are excited to welcome Yvette Box to the Induron team as the newest Senior Chemist! Yvette graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Polymer Science and Engineering. During her undergraduate studies, Yvette’s research focused on emulsion synthesis and formulation of self-crosslinking waterborne DTM acrylics.