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Tamco Professional Coatings is a Houma-based company keeping local industry’s wares in tip-top appearance.

Tamco is a painting and sandblasting company on Houma’s east side. The company has been around for 16 years and its staff has more than 25 combined years of experience in the industry. Tamco has a variety of customers, including some of the oil and gas industry’s leaders such as Bollinger Shipyard, Cameron/Schlumberger, Gulf Island Shipyard and Conrad Deepwater. According to Tamco’s website, that experienced staff is the bedrock of its service.


“Tamco Professional Coatings, Inc.’s goal is to provide the highest quality service by continuous improvement and through the skillfulness of our most valuable asset – OUR EMPLOYEES,” the website reads.

Tamco does not only do painting and sandblasting, though. It also provides slurry, soda, walnut, water and UHP water blasting to clean off equipment. Tamco’s facilities offer dockside blasting and painting, internal tank cleaning and coatings and specialty coatings, including plural component coatings. According to the website, the areas included in work are crane booms, pedestals, double bottoms, interiors and exteriors, piece work and superstructures. Tamco also owns most of its own equipment, enabling it to save money and pass those savings onto its customers.

Tamco is an OSHA regulated company that works with a variety of safety consultants, such as DISA and Coastal Safety Consultants, to ensure their quality workmanship is buttressed by quality safety. The company has won two awards from the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation as one of the top 70 safest companies in the state out of more than 16,500 eligible businesses. Tamco has taken home Safest 70 awards in both 2013 and 2015. According to the company site, Tamco stresses proper employee preparation to uphold its safety record.


“We are dedicated to providing safety and quality to our customers. We strive to maintain qualified personnel by providing our staff with proper training to ensure the best quality and performance on the job,” Tamco’s website reads.

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