Industrial Tank Coating and Lining: What Specifiers Need to Know Before the Job Starts

By the time a tank lining fails, the decisions that caused the failure were usually made months earlier. A coating that blisters, disbonds, or holidays out in its first year of service almost always traces back to something that was vague, missing, or wrong in the spec before the first blast pot was ever staged. […]

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Secondary Containment Coating: Why Chemical Resistance Is Non-Negotiable

Secondary Containment / BlasTek

A secondary containment structure has one job, to hold what escapes when the primary vessel fails. A tank ruptures, a valve lets go, a drum tips over during a transfer, and the bund, dike, or pit underneath is supposed to catch every gallon before it reaches the soil, the storm drain, or the groundwater. Here

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Soda Blasting for Historic Masonry: Cleaning Brick and Stone Without the Damage

Soda Blasting / BlasTek

Old brick and stone don’t get a second chance. Once an aggressive cleaning process eats into the face of a hundred-year-old façade, that surface is gone, and no amount of sealer or tuckpointing brings it back. That is the hard part of cleaning historic masonry: the paint, soot, and decades of grime you want removed

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Garnet vs. Steel Grit vs. Aluminum Oxide vs. Glass Bead: How to Choose the Right Sandblasting Media

Industrial Sandblasting / BlasTek

Abrasive media selection is one of the most consequential decisions in any industrial blasting project. The wrong media can warp thin substrates, embed contaminants, produce an anchor profile the coating manufacturer never specified, or drive project costs up through excessive consumption. The right media, matched to the substrate, the required surface preparation standard, and the

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