Industrial painting and coatings in Timmins

What we do in Timmins

We protect equipment and structures at Timmins mines against ore abrasion, corrosion and process solutions: abrasive blasting, wear-resistant coatings for chutes, hoppers and pump boxes, rubber lining for leach tanks and piping, painting of conveyors and headframes, and tank linings. Work is carried out by our crews and qualified subcontractors, under one quote and one inspection file.

Coatings are our core business. The system is chosen part by part from wear, solution chemistry and ISO 12944 corrosivity, then applied to the manufacturer's data sheet.

• Protective coatings: systems and inspection
• Mining equipment painting

Industrial sectors in Timmins

Timmins was born from the Porcupine gold rush, and gold is still its engine: underground and open-pit mines, grinding and processing mills, tailings areas. The region also mines base metals, and forestry still matters, with its sawmills and processing plants.

In a gold processing mill, steel takes two attacks at once. Ground slurry wears chutes, screens, cyclones and piping. Leach and adsorption tanks, thickeners and reagent tanks hold solutions that corrode bare steel. Outside, conveyors, headframes and structures face a harsh climate.

• Tank lining
• Pipe coating

Most requested services in Timmins

Rubber lining for tanks, pump boxes and slurry piping comes first, because it resists both fine abrasion and process solutions. High-impact chutes and hoppers usually get a ceramic-filled wear coating instead.

Next come painting of conveyors, galleries and headframes, and internal linings for reagent and process water tanks. Hydro blasting removes scale and old films without abrasive, which avoids introducing grit into the circuit. Worn tailings lines can be rehabilitated with an internal coating.

• Rubber lining
• Hydro blasting
• Tank and water tower painting
• Abrasive blasting

On-site work, at surface and underground

Everything is done on site: our crews arrive with mobile blasting, painting, dust collection and heating units. At surface, we work inside the mill, on conveyors and inside tanks, as confined space work when needed. Underground, we treat shaft steel, pumps and dewatering lines under the mine's rules and permits.

For a removable part, the site's maintenance shop can serve as the work area. The quote states what is done in place, what is moved and the cure time to allow before return to service.

• Maintenance and rehabilitation

Travel, access and safety in Ontario

Timmins is far from LaSalle, further north than Sudbury: every job is a long trip, prepared in detail. The window is set with the site, then survey, quantities, abrasive, scaffolding and permits (confined space, lockout, work at height, underground work) are settled remotely. Equipment ships ahead of the crew so no day is lost on site.

In Ontario, our work follows Ontario occupational health and safety rules for mines, on top of the site's own rules. When Sudbury has similar needs, both sites can share one trip.

• Project management and shutdown coordination

Climate: the Northern Ontario winter

Timmins winters are very cold and long, with a short warm season. Below the product's minimum temperature, rubber bonds poorly and epoxy does not cure. We work under heated, ventilated enclosures, with indirect heating, and measure substrate temperature, relative humidity and dew point before every coat.

Exterior work (galleries, headframes, tailings structures) is concentrated in the short warm season, which has to be booked early. Inside the mill, work goes on year round, provided condensation from slurry moisture is controlled.

• Applying epoxy in cold weather

Standards and inspection records

We apply the owner's specification. Common references are ISO 12944 for system selection, ISO 8501-1 and SSPC/AMPP standards for preparation (SSPC-SP 10 for immersion and wear service) and SSPC-PA 2 for dry film thickness. For rubber, hardness, adhesion and continuity are checked against the manufacturer's data sheet. The site receives a full file with photos.

• Coating inspection