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In an effort to increase efficiencies and enhance customer service, city governments and municipalities are turning to document scanning as part of their digital initiatives. While completely paper-free operations and transactions are not always realistic in the public sector, document scanning services help close the gap between digital business process and hard copies. Before beginning a document imaging initiative, there are legal and management considerations to keep in mind.

Abrasive blasting uses various materials to strip imperfections, paint, rust, and other contaminants from a surface. It’s an important step in surface coating preparation, as it cleans a substrate and creates a surface that will hold a protective coating. Blasting takes the place of more labor-intensive cleaning methods like wire brushing or sanding and can speed up the surface preparation process by up to 75 percent.

Corrosion prevention is vital to maintenance, safety and preservation of equipment. Without the right environmental conditions during the surface coating preparation, application and drying stages, the life of the preventive coating shortens, thus increasing maintenance costs. For this reason, companies often look to temporary climate control to ensure the success of the protective coating applications.

Sheets of microfiche are fragile and need dry, cool environments to prevent deterioration and tearing. While they serve an important role in the preservation of history, microfiche takes up storage space, requires time to find the appropriate images and needs special machinery to read the film. By converting microfiche to a digitized form with the help of document imaging services, your company can maximize its physical storage space and preserve the documents with a more permanent solution.

While water is essential to life, it’s one of the most destructive elements on the planet. Without the use of a water tank surface coating, the substrate in a municipal tank is vulnerable to factors such as corrosion, deterioration and nitrification. The destructive problems compromise the safety of the water within a tank and reduce the tank’s service life. Maintenance that includes the proper application of surface coatings mitigates these risks and increases a tank’s durability.