Epoxy is a film. Powder coat is a film. Liquid coatings are films. They dry, and every day of service after that is a slow failure of adhesion. PermaFusion is not a film — it is a vitreous glass fired into the steel at 1,560 °F, chemically inseparable from the plate it becomes. It does not chalk, does not blister, does not delaminate. It cannot.
ASTM A1011 HSLA steel is robotically abrasive-blasted to SSPC-SP10 white metal, then chemically phosphated for enamel uptake within four minutes.
A cobalt-rich frit slurry is curtain-coated onto both faces and fired at 925 °F. Metallic oxides chemically bond into the steel surface, creating a nickel-cobalt interlayer rather than a painted interface.
Two additional vitreous enamel cover coats are wet-sprayed and fused in sequence at 1,560 °F. Each coat adds 3–4 mils of glass; the panel leaves the oven a single molecular stack — steel, interlayer, glass.
Every panel is wet-sponge holiday-tested at 1,500 V DC to a zero-defect standard before it earns its serial etch and its place in the crate. Nothing ships that would not pass AWWA D103 field inspection.
The same glass-fused panel that holds finished drinking water for NSF 61 service holds mesophilic sludge in a biogas digester and leachate in a closed RCRA cell. What changes is the gasket, the nozzle pattern, and the specification binder — not the coating, and not the warranty.
NSF 61 glass-fused-to-steel reservoir for finished drinking water.
H₂S- and sulfide-resistant equalization and SBR basins for municipal WWTP.
RCRA-grade GFS vault for the most aggressive liquor on the landfill.
FM-approved glass-fused-to-steel tank for NFPA 22 static reserve.
Mesophilic and thermophilic digesters with methane-tight GFS roofs.
Process, brine, and aggressive-liquor storage where epoxy tanks give up.
The industry still writes specifications around the coating systems of 1975: powder-coat epoxy, liquid two-part epoxy, and rebar-in-concrete. Every one of them is a film on a substrate — a bond that fails long before the steel underneath does.
Fifty-year total cost of ownership on a 1 MG tank — installation, recoat schedule, downtime, and end-of-life. PermaFusion is the second lowest capex. It is the lowest lifetime cost by a factor of two.
Model: 1.0 MG potable · Midwestern labor · 2026 USD · 3.5 % escalation.
Life-cycle savings vs. liquid-epoxy-coated welded steel. Before factoring downtime or outage penalties.
Hydraulic sizing, site survey, soils, seismic and wind envelope. Output: a stamped basis-of-design memo in seven business days.
Steel cut, blasted, phosphated, and enameled in our Champions Gateway furnace line in Canton, Ohio. Every panel serialized to the mill cert.
Factory-trained crew jack-raises the tank from the roof down. No welding, no painting, no grinding on-site.
Hydrotest, factory witness, 25-year coating warranty, and a service binder that lives on the operator shelf.
Share your hydraulic demand, footprint, chemistry, and seismic site class. Our estimating team returns stamped drawings, a lifetime-cost model, and a fixed-price bid within seven business days — or tells you, honestly, that welded steel or concrete is the right envelope for your duty. We quote the truth, not the sale.
Hand these to your engineer, specifier, or procurement team. The full technical brochure and the master specification — the same packet we submit with every bid — are yours without a form wall.