Company Profile: Tnemec Company
Tnemec Company’s 2013 Tank of the Year
With a vivid, intricate wrap-around motif and tagline
that reads, “Creativity Redefined,” this elevated water
tank from Mt. Vernon, Illinois was named Tnemec’s 2013
Tank of the Year. This water tank’s new look is part of a
rebranding effort for the City of Mt. Vernon. “In 2012, the
City hired an outside company to help develop a new
logo,” said Bonnie Jerdon, director of the Mt. Vernon
Convention and Visitors Bureau. “We wanted to create
some continuity and increase our amount of visitors.”
The shinning exterior and interior coatings systems
were manufactured by Tnemec Company, Inc. All ex-
posed steel is coated with Tnemec’s flagship water tank
topcoat, HydroFlon – an industry standard for superior
protection against UV degradation and other harmful
effects caused by atmospheric exposure.
The plated steel was fabricated by CB&I and coated
in-shop with a moisture-cured, zinc-rich aromatic urethane primer, Series 91-H2O Hydro-Zinc, on both the interior and exterior. The steel was delivered to the jobsite
already primed. The interior steel was then painted with
two coats of Series N140 Pota-Pox Plus, a potable water
coating certified in accordance with ANSI/NSF Std. 61.
The exterior steel received an intermediate coat of
Series 73 Endura-Shield before the finish coat was applied. The finish coat, Series V700 Low VOC HydroFlon,
was specified in the color “Tank White.” This version of
HydroFlon meets area air regulations and provides extremely long-term maintenance cycles with excellent color and gloss retention.
The tank’s top-to-bottom mural of spiraling, bubble-like shapes was coated using HydroFlon, too. “They submitted several colors and we provided them with options in every shade,” said Mike Cerruti, local coating consultant with Coating Solutions, LLC in
Eureka, Missouri. “They ended up using two gallons of seven different colors for the logo and design.”
The logo itself was painted by Missouri-based contractor, Trikote LLC. “To create the design and leave sharper lines, the painter
cut patterns out of house wrap material,” explained Cerutti. “Once the stencils were cut out, they applied the many colors of HydroFlon using brush and rollers.”
