Sugar & Food Processing Coating & Repair Services

Process pumps, fan housings, chutes, and conveying components wear from the inside out. Sugar slurries, juice, and bagasse carry abrasives that thin metal, open clearances, and drop efficiency, while corrosion and erosion work the wetted faces at the same time. Once tolerances slip the pump moves less product for more power, and from there the wear only speeds up.

We rebuild the worn metal and resurface wear faces in our climate-controlled Alvin shop or right on your floor. The crew preps back to sound substrate, rebuilds lost wall and profile with a cold-applied metal-repair system, then overlays the high-wear zones with a ceramic-filled erosion and abrasion coating. That restores clearances and the original flow path with no hot work near product. Components go back into service ready for the next campaign, and the same coating buys longer runs between teardowns.

Evaporators, de-aerators, and autoclaves run hot and wet by design. Conventional linings break down at that service temperature, and the shell corrodes at welds and tube zones where film thickness is hardest to hold. Food and beverage tanks and troughs face a different fight. Daily caustic washdown and hot CIP cycles defeat ordinary coatings on a plant audit.

We recoat both cold during the outage. Hot-service vessels take a high-temperature immersion-grade lining matched to the operating temperature, so there is no liner-replacement weld cycle. On food-zone surfaces we install a hygienic, food-contact-grade lining that holds up to repeat CIP and leaves a cleanable surface. The vessel comes back online inside the shutdown window, prepped, lined, and ready to inspect.

Floors take the worst of it in a processing plant. Forklift traffic, impact, acid and alkali spills, and constant washdown strip standard toppings off and let product reach the concrete. Containment areas need a topping that survives the worst-case spill chemistry, not just the day-to-day. And as aggregate wears smooth and oil tracks across it, stairs and walkways drop below safe slip resistance.

We lay a chemical-resistant floor system over prepared concrete or steel that stands up to the spill underneath and the load on top of it. On traffic and safety surfaces, we apply cold-cure anti-slip coatings to floors, stair treads, ramps, ladder rungs, and platform decks. They reopen to foot traffic the same shift, so a crew area never goes dark waiting out a cure.

Every repair here happens cold and in place. No flame near product. No shipping a casting out for OEM re-machining. No waiting on a replacement vessel. We rebuild the equipment you already have, on the schedule you already set, and hand it back ready for inspection.

That looks like more product per pump, a vessel lining that survives the next hot campaign, a floor that passes audit and resists the next spill, and walkways that hold their grip. When something fails between turnarounds, our 24-hour on-call crew is on the Texas Gulf Coast and ready to move. Fewer surprises, shorter outages, and equipment that finishes the season.