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. Corrosion and erosion attack the wetted faces at the same time. Once tolerances slip, the pump moves less product for more power, and the wear only speeds up.

AAS rebuilds the worn metal and resurfaces wear faces in our climate-controlled shop or on your floor. We prep back to sound substrate, rebuild lost wall and profile with a cold-applied metal-repair system, then overlay the high-wear zones with a ceramic-filled erosion and abrasion coating. The repair restores clearances and the original flow path without hot work near product. Components go back into service ready for the next campaign. 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. 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.

AAS recoats both cold during the outage. On hot-service vessels we apply 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 and let product reach the concrete. Containment areas need a topping that survives the worst-case spill chemistry, not just the day-to-day. As aggregate wears smooth and oil tracks across it, stairs and walkways drop below safe slip resistance.

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

Every one of these repairs happens cold and in place. No flame near product. No shipping a casting out for OEM re-machining. No waiting on a replacement vessel. AAS rebuilds the equipment you have, on the schedule you already set, and hands it back ready for inspection.

That means 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 Louisiana and ready to move. The result is fewer surprises, shorter outages, and equipment that finishes the season.