Industrial Painting Services
BlasTek provides professional industrial painting services engineered for the most demanding environments in commercial, municipal, and industrial operations. Our certified applicators apply multi-coat epoxy, urethane, zinc, and specialty coating systems to structural steel, processing equipment, storage vessels, piping systems, and facility interiors, delivering finishes that protect against corrosion, chemical exposure, UV degradation, and abrasion for years beyond industry average.
Unlike general commercial painting contractors, BlasTek operates exclusively in industrial environments. Our team understands coating chemistry, surface preparation standards, environmental conditions, and application requirements at a level that ensures every project meets both the coating manufacturer’s specification and the asset owner’s performance expectations.
Industrial Painting vs. Commercial Painting — Why It Matters
Industrial painting is fundamentally different from commercial or residential painting in scope, complexity, and performance requirement. Industrial coating systems are engineered for chemical resistance, immersion service, extreme temperature, abrasion, UV exposure, and cathodic protection, not simply aesthetics. The products used are plural-component, high-solid, solvent-heavy formulations that require trained applicators and controlled application conditions to perform as specified.
More importantly, industrial painting projects are guided by technical specifications, not paint swatches. A water treatment plant engineer requires an NSF-certified epoxy lining. A chemical plant owner demands a vinyl ester coating for secondary containment. A steel fabricator specifies a zinc primer topped with an epoxy finish for atmospheric service. At BlasTek, our team carefully interprets and executes every specification, ensuring your coating system performs exactly as the manufacturer intended and your project demands.
Industrial Coating Systems We Apply
BlasTek applies a full range of industrial coating systems designed to protect critical infrastructure, extend asset life, and meet demanding performance specifications. From corrosion-resistant primers to high-performance topcoats and specialty linings, our team applies coatings engineered for durability, chemical resistance, and long-term reliability across a variety of industrial environments.
Zinc Primers — Galvanic Protection for Steel
Zinc-rich primers provide galvanic protection to steel substrates, sacrificing the zinc coating to protect the underlying metal from corrosion. BlasTek applies both inorganic zinc silicate and organic zinc-rich epoxy primers as the first coat in multi-layer corrosion control systems for structural steel, bridges, and exposed infrastructure.
High-Build Epoxy Systems
Epoxy coatings deliver excellent adhesion, chemical resistance, and moisture barrier performance in a wide range of industrial environments. BlasTek applies solvent-based, waterborne, and high-solids epoxy systems from Sherwin-Williams, Tnemec, International, and Carboline as intermediate and finish coats in complete industrial coating systems.
Urethane and Polyurethane Topcoats
Aliphatic polyurethane topcoats provide outstanding UV resistance, color retention, and gloss stability for exterior industrial structures such as bridges, water towers, storage tanks, and building elements. BlasTek applies urethane topcoats as the final layer in multi-coat systems where long-term color retention and exterior performance are required.
Specialty Systems — Vinyl Ester, Novolac, and Immersion Linings
For chemical immersion service, tank linings, and secondary containment, BlasTek applies specialty high-performance systems including vinyl ester linings, novolac epoxies, and chemically resistant finish coats from leading manufacturers. These systems require careful surface preparation, controlled application conditions, and thorough inspection to ensure the lining is pinhole-free and properly cured.
Industrial Painting Applications
- Structural steel: New construction and maintenance recoating
- Water and wastewater treatment infrastructure: Tanks, clarifiers, digesters, piping
- Manufacturing facilities: Floor coatings, equipment coatings, safety markings
- Chemical processing plants: Secondary containment, process vessel coatings
- Power generation facilities: Heat-resistant coatings, structural protection
- Food and beverage facilities: Food-safe epoxy walls, floor systems, equipment frames
- Bridge and civil infrastructure: Atmospheric and immersion service systems
- Commercial and institutional buildings: Exterior metal coatings, restoration
Field and Shop Services for Industrial Painting
BlasTek provides industrial painting services both in our shop facilities and on-site at your facility. At our Shelbyville and Grand Rapids, MI shops, we work closely with fabricators, general contractors, and asset owners to deliver reliable, high-quality painting for structural steel assemblies, tanks, vessels, and high-volume parts. Our experienced team ensures the right industrial coating is applied correctly, every time so you don’t have to manage the process yourself.
For field services, BlasTek deploys mobile equipment and skilled crews to handle on-site painting projects, including large or difficult-to-access structures, civil infrastructure, and active manufacturing environments. Whether in-shop or in the field, our focus is precision, efficiency, and long-lasting performance.
Request an Industrial Painting Quote
Contact BlasTek to discuss your industrial painting project. Our estimators will review the coating specification, evaluate the asset condition, and provide a detailed project estimate following an on-site assessment. Call us at 616-243-7550 or fill out our contact form to get started.
Industries We Serve
BlasTek is a specialty sandblasting contractor built for the most demanding industrial environments. We provide expert blasting, coating, and corrosion control solutions for a wide range of sectors, including:
- Municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities
- Food and beverage processing plants
- Pharmaceutical and cleanroom facilities
- Energy generation and power transmission infrastructure
- Steel fabricators and structural steel fabrication shops
- Advanced manufacturing and heavy industry
- Commercial and industrial construction
- Environmental and disaster restoration projects
Service Areas
BlasTek operates from two strategic locations: our headquarters in Shelbyville, MI, serving the greater West Michigan region, and our dedicated powder coating facility in Grand Rapids, MI. Our mobile field service teams extend across Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Southern Illinois, covering the heart of the Midwest industrial corridor. We proudly serve primary areas including:
- Grand Rapids, MI
- Kalamazoo, MI
- Three Rivers, MI
- Southwest and Northern Michigan
- Southern Illinois
- Northern Indiana
- Ohio
Sustainability
Our Capabilities for Field Work
Include lead abatement, historical building restoration, surface prep, coatings removal, and industrial cleaning, to name a few.
We Follow Best Practices
We came together because we understand and specialize in the unique demands of media blasting.
- Sustainablility
- Project On Time
- Modern Technology
- Always By Your Side
Frequently Asked Questions — Industrial Painting
How is industrial painting different from regular painting?
Industrial painting involves applying high-performance, multi-component coating systems to critical infrastructure such as steel structures, tanks, piping, floors for the purpose of corrosion control, chemical resistance, or asset protection. It requires certified applicators, proper surface preparation to SSPC/NACE standards, and coating systems specified by engineers for the service environment, not off-the-shelf paint from a hardware store.
What brands of industrial paint does BlasTek use?
BlasTek specifies and applies coating systems from Sherwin-Williams, International, Tnemec, and Carboline, four of the leading industrial coating manufacturers. Product selection is based on the service environment, coating specification, and project requirements.
Do you provide industrial painting for active manufacturing facilities?
Yes. BlasTek regularly performs industrial painting work in active manufacturing environments, scheduling work during planned maintenance windows, nights, and weekends to minimize production disruption. Our project managers coordinate closely with facility operations teams to ensure painting activities integrate safely with ongoing production.
Can you match an existing industrial coating specification?
Yes. BlasTek can match an owner-supplied or engineer-supplied coating specification or develop a specification recommendation based on the service environment and performance requirements. We work with coating manufacturers’ technical representatives to confirm specification compliance when required.
Plastics & Rubber Applications
Having clean equipment and an equally clean work environment is central to maintaining today’s high-quality standards. In the plastics industry, unwanted surface residues and other by-products can create a whole host of problems, such as inferior product quality, damage to tools and equipment and, most importantly, an unsafe work environment. Dry ice blasting not only reduces the potential of these problems but also, can help companies save a lot of time and money.
Since Dry Ice blasting is a completely dry process with no secondary cleanup, molds can be cleaned in-house and usually without any disassembly, which reduces costly downtime. In many cases, Dry Ice Blasting is up to 8 times faster than alternative cleaning methods, which reduces labor costs and also downtime. And because molds can be cleaned in place, there is very little risk of damaging the equipment during removal and reinstallation. Some of the other equipment that can be cleaned via Dry Ice Blasting includes blow molds, compression molds, extrusion dies, injection molds, thermoform molds, plastic injection screw barrels, extruders, mixing vats, and virtually anything else contaminated by surface residues and other by-products.
Food Processing
Dry Ice Blasting provides a quick and cost-effective solution to routine maintenance in the food processing and production industry. Whether it be removing adhesives from a conveyor or cleaning melted wax from a boiler, Dry Ice Blasting is the best way to maximize production and minimize downtime.
We can also clean slicers and dividers, electrical components, labeler and gluer, ovens, conveyors, mixers, baggers, palletizers, food molds.
What Our Clients Say
Testimonials
Sales and Operations
Clearwater Filtration
Matthew McDonald
BlasTek has completed every project either on schedule or ahead of schedule. They excel with every job in craftsmanship and workmanship. In my mind, they are one of the leaders of the trade in the West Michigan area. Their integrity and determination to provide the best service for their customer are undoubtedly one of the best I have ever seen.
Project Manager
Andy J. Egan Co.
Chad Reed
Over the last few years, we have been utilizing BlasTek LLC for various fabrication projects ranging from semi loads of large-bore carbon steel piping to complex equipment and piping skids. They not only meet the demanding turnaround of our projects but have also expressed great quality and workmanship. Among other things, BlasTek has expressed a willingness to adapt to the specific needs and skillsets of some of our projects.