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BENEATH THE SURFACE PUBLISHED BY NACE International EDITOR Jennifer Kramer Tanning And The Coatings Industry "There's a fine line between looking tan and looking like you rolled in a bag of Doritos." –Bill Murray Now, the summer tan has a whole different meaning. Chances are, if you work on a coatings crew, by mid-June you've cultivated a nice goggle and/or farmer's tan. You hop into a truck to climb onto a roof or into a tank or a trench, or any other wide variety of jobsite. Forget holding your breath—you reach for a respirator. And those endless afternoons? Well now there don't seem to be enough hours in a day. But one thing is certain; we don't see many of those fake orange tans in the coatings industry. Coatings industry folks are tan through hard work. T For example, the crew from PK Industries who sweated over three jobsites to fireproof 80,000 square feet of structural steel beams for an expanding refinery. Encompassing two states and simultaneous jobsites, the crew combined hard work, cutting edge technology, and flawless communication to help keep our fuel supply flowing—and protected—as David Hunter illustrates in "Capacity Controlled: Fractionator Expansion Gets Fireproofed" on page 68. Fast-paced hard work is also second nature to the crew in "Pet Food Floor: Dogged By Problems" (page 40). Given just three days to completely reslope a food processing floor, the crew turns to an unusual solution, taking command and quickly bringing the problems to "heel," as it were. And sometimes all that hard work meets with some "opposition" from others on the job. As Mike O'Brien relates in his "Never Again" (page 74), sometimes the inspector isn't always correct. That is why it is vitally important that your QC equipment is calibrated correctly and that you know, and properly follow, the specification requirements—whether you agree with the standards or not. After all, a summer tan can turn pale awfully quickly when faced with damages. CP he summer tan. Remember those days in mid-June when school let out and you couldn't wait to hop on your bike? Or play ball with your buddies on the field down the street? Or dive beneath the water, holding your breath for just that much longer each time? Those afternoons seemed endless. CONTRIBUTING EDITOR MANAGING EDITOR Eliina Lizarraga TECHNICAL EDITOR Malcolm McNeil Jack Innis CONTRIBUTORS Diane Ciotta Pete Engelbert Chris Grethlein Sylvia C. Hall, PE Syndee Holt David Hunter Malcolm McNeil Mike O'Brien Jeffrey Stewart Patrick Valtin COPY EDITORS Julie Berry Robin Cheslock EDITORIAL ADVISORY GROUP Kellie Allen Jack Allen, Inc. David Hunter Hunter Engineering Consulting, Inc. 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