Guides, best practices, and industry knowledge from Endurance Painting — Michigan's industrial coating specialists with 35+ years in the field.
Industrial Cleaning
Solvent baths and pressure washing get equipment clean, but they leave chemical waste, moisture, and disassembly on the to-do list. Here's how CO2 dry ice blasting actually compares for industrial degreasing work.
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Industrial Cleaning
Dust and grease buildup inside switchgear is a documented fire and arc-flash risk, but water and abrasive media aren't safe options near energized equipment. Here's why dry ice blasting is different.
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Equipment & Technology
Automotive OEMs have used painting robots for decades. Here's what's actually reaching field industrial coating work in 2026 — from plural component proportioning to drone inspection — and what's still years away.
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Safety & Compliance
Abrasive blasting doesn't get OSHA's pre-approved silica control path — it requires its own exposure assessment. Here's what the 2026 enforcement priorities mean for any project involving surface prep before coating.
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Equipment & Finishing
When a facility can't afford a five-day cure schedule, chemistry has to do the work scheduling can't. Here's how polyaspartic and moisture-cured urethane coatings cut downtime without cutting corners.
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Industrial Cleaning
Oil and grease left behind by solvent degreasing don't always show up until the topcoat starts failing. Here's where dry ice blasting fits into a real surface prep plan — and what it honestly doesn't replace.
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Protective Coatings
CUI happens where nobody's looking — under the jacketing, out of sight, until a pipe fails or a vessel wall thins past spec. Here's how it forms, what AMPP SP0198 requires, and what a coating system actually needs to survive it.
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Regulatory & Compliance
State PFAS bans and tightening VOC limits are reshaping what's allowed in industrial coating specifications. Here's what's actually changing, which coatings are affected, and how to keep a project compliant without sacrificing performance.
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Industrial Cleaning
A full wash-down cycle means water, chemical residue, and drying time before a line can run food again. Here's how dry ice blasting cleans conveyors, mixers, and ovens without any of that.
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Protective Coatings
Both protect steel galvanically, but inorganic and organic zinc primers behave very differently in the field. Surface prep requirements, topcoat compatibility, and temperature limits vary significantly between the two — here's how to choose the right one.
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Specialty Coatings
Glass flake epoxy achieves barrier properties standard coatings can't match — but only when platelets orient correctly during application. Brush and roller destroys that orientation. Here's what facility managers need to know.
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Specialty Coatings
Hydrocarbon fires reach 1,100°C in five minutes. UL 1709-rated epoxy intumescent at up to 25mm DFT is the engineered answer — and it can only be applied with plural component spray equipment.
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Industrial Cleaning
Wire wheels and scrapers gouge machined mating surfaces. Solvent tanks mean teardown. Here's how dry ice blasting strips carbon and gasket residue off engines and generator sets without damaging what's underneath.
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Specialty Coatings
EPA SPCC regulations require secondary containment that is chemically impervious and defect-free. Spray polyurea gels in 2–6 seconds — the only way to apply it is with a Graco Reactor 3 plural component proportioner.
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Equipment & Finishing
For large-scale equipment repaints requiring a clean, professional finish — conventional spray is the right tool. See how we recoated 50+ production pieces for Luxwall across 150,000 sq ft.
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Plant Operations
Facility shutdowns cost money. We've spent 35+ years refining a scheduling approach that lets us coat your plant, factory, or processing facility while your operation keeps running — safely, efficiently, and on your terms.
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Safety & Compliance
Any contractor can say they take safety seriously. OSHA 10 and OSHA 30 certification is how you back that up — and what it signals about who you're letting into your facility.
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Equipment & Technology
Plural component systems change everything about how high-performance coatings are applied. Here's what our new Graco unit delivers on every job.
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Machinery & Equipment
From conveyors and cranes to presses and mixers — industrial equipment takes a beating. Here's how we protect it and keep it looking sharp.
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Silo & Tank Coating
UV-stable exteriors that won't fade in Michigan's sun, smooth food-grade interior linings for flow-critical silos, and FDA-compliant systems for grain and food storage operations.
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Specialty Coatings
Glass mat reinforced vinyl ester linings provide structural reinforcement and chemical resistance no coating can match — but catalyst ratio errors during application are where most failures originate. Here's why plural component metering is required.
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Wastewater Coatings
Hydrogen sulfide, constant moisture, and aggressive chemical loads make wastewater infrastructure one of the most demanding coating environments. Here's how we prepare and protect it.
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Specialty Coatings
Not all industrial coatings are the same. Understanding the differences between epoxy, urethane, zinc-rich primers, and high-solids systems can mean the difference between a 5-year and 20-year coating life.
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Specialty Coatings
Standard bisphenol-A epoxy fails in aromatic hydrocarbon service and at elevated temperatures. Novolac epoxy holds — but its chemistry and viscosity demand plural component spray application to perform as specified on API 652 projects.
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