The Emerald Coast’s Latest ‘Gem’ is Named
Tnemec Company’s 2012 Tank of the Year
Appreciation of Florida’s Emerald Coast reached new
heights when a 500,000-gallon pedestal water tank on
Okaloosa Island was refurbished with a mural representing
the area’s Appalachian quartz sand beaches and featuring an
advanced fluoropolymer coating system from Tnemec.
The tank’s exterior base coating system was applied by
Ohio-based American Suncraft Construction Company and
mural artist, Eric Henn, with engineering services provided by
Polyengineering, Inc. of Shalimar, Florida.
Exterior steel was prepared in accordance with SSPC-SP 2
Hand Tool Cleaning and SPC-SP3 Power Tool Cleaning and
primed with Series 135 Chembuild, a modified polyamido-
amine epoxy for marginally prepared steel and tightly adher-
ing old coatings. Series 73 Endura-Shield, an aliphatic acrylic
polyurethane, was the intermediate coat, followed by a finish
coat of Series 700 HydroFlon, an advanced fluoropolymer
that offers outstanding resistance to UV light for unprece-
dented long-term gloss and color retention. The project did
not require replacement of the existing Tnemec coating sys-
tem on the tank’s interior, which was in sound condition.
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