Kerry Pianoforte, Editor
Tnemec Company, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is a leading manufacturer of high-performance architectur- al and industrial coatings. The Kansas City, Missouri-based company offers innovative coating formulations that
protect a wide range of substrates and enhance aesthetics.
From water tanks and treatment plants, to manufacturing
plants, industrial facilities and specialty architectural buildings, Tnemec coatings can be found protecting virtually all
types of structures and buildings.
“Tnemec Company offers a wide-range of coatings that
provide corrosion protection to steel, non-ferrous, and con-
crete substrates,” said Mark Thomas, vice president – market-
ing, Tnemec Company, Inc. “These include zinc-rich and mio/
zinc urethane primers, chemical resistant epoxies and water-
based products.”
A particularly unique product offered by Tnemec Company
is a water-based epoxy coating with corrosion-inhibitive prop-
erties that provides equivalent corrosion protection as solvent-
based epoxy coatings.
The applications for Tnemec’s products vary and include
protection from exterior weathering, chemical exposures and
corrosive vapors.
According to Thomas, the primary concern when choosing corrosion protecting products is the environmental conditions which the substrate and coating will be subjected to
and thus the performance level required of the coating and
coating system.
“A full understanding of the environmental conditions is
needed in order to provide a sound coating recommendation,”
said Thomas. “Often this includes identifying any factors that
could increase the severity of the environment such as a coastal
exposure in additional to exterior weathering, or high tempera-
tures in addition to chemical immersion.”
Tnemec Company’s product development efforts have
been, and remain, focused on performance. “By utilizing
new technology the company has been able to formulate
lower VOC products while maintaining ease of applica-
tion and high performance standards,” said Thomas. “The
high-performance coatings industry is an extremely dy-
namic one and requires constant forward progress in terms
of innovative product development and technical customer
service. New technology is continually introduced to the
coatings industry that provides better performance while
lowering VOCs and limiting environmental impact. Tnemec
Company intends to remain at the forefront of this new
technology while assisting its customers with sound advice
and support.” CW
Tnemec offers corrosion protection coatings for a variety of structures and buildings.
Company Profile:
Tnemec Company
