Industrial Painting Contractors in Chicago
Plant interiors, structural steel, deck ceilings, tanks and machinery across Chicago's industrial corridors, blasted, primed and coated by Allied employees on a schedule that fits your production.
- Allied employees on every job, never subcontractors
- Nights, weekends and shutdown-window scheduling so your operation keeps running
- Licensed, insured and bonded, with certificates before we start
- Written scope and warranty with every estimate
Industrial painting services for Chicago buildings
Every service below is one we run with our own crews across Cook County. Pick the page that matches your building, or tell us what you have and we will walk it with you. The full service overview is on the industrial painting services page.
Plant and factory interiors
Walls, columns, mezzanines and structural steel painted around running lines, one bay or one shift at a time.
Industrial ceilings and decks
Corrugated deck, joists, ducts and piping sprayed from lifts with containment over the equipment below.
Abrasive and dustless blasting
Sand, crushed glass and dustless blasting to bare metal before priming, on tanks, machinery and steel.
Equipment, tanks and machinery
Production machines, silos, tanks and plow fleets primed and painted to a spec, often over a single weekend.
Concrete and CMU walls
Block and poured walls sealed and coated for washdown areas, corridors and exterior elevations.
Industrial floors
Pigmented epoxy, clear coat and 5S floor markings on slabs that take forklift traffic.
Working in Chicago
Chicago still makes things: food and ingredient plants on the Southwest Side, metal finishing along the North Branch, printing and packaging in Pilsen and Pullman, and hundred-year-old brick plants that have been re-purposed three times. Every one of them has steel, block and deck that has to be maintained without stopping the line.
Our industrial crews plan around your production calendar: a rolling one-bay-at-a-time schedule, a holiday shutdown, or nights while the day shift is home. Containment, ventilation and food-safe or low-VOC coatings are specified up front, and the permits the City requires for lifts on public way are ours to pull.
- Phased schedules by floor, bay or elevation, with a written sequence you sign off on
- Night and weekend crews where a space cannot close
- Containment, floor protection and ventilation set up before the first gallon opens
- One foreman on site every day who answers to you
Industrial painting projects near Chicago
Real clients, with case studies you can read. Location and scope are as published on each project page.
Arro Corporation
Plant interior repaint plus a pigmented epoxy floor system in a food-ingredient facility.
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Tank priming and painting
Exterior storage tanks prepped, primed and top-coated on site.
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International Paper
A 250-foot corrugated-container machine painted to match in IP blue, completed in one weekend.
See the projectWhat industrial painting costs in Chicago, and what changes the number
Industrial painting is priced on prep and access more than on gallons. Rust, mill scale, old lead-era coatings and oil-fogged steel each change the spec, and so does how much of the plant we can take offline at once.
- Surface condition: blast to bare metal, power-tool clean, or wash and scuff
- Access: lifts between machines, mezzanines, ceilings over live lines
- Shutdown windows: weekend, holiday or rolling one-bay-at-a-time schedules
- Coating spec: zinc-rich or epoxy primers, urethane or epoxy topcoats, food-safe or chemical-resistant where required
Estimates are free and come with a written scope, so you can compare bids line by line. Read our promise.
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Questions Chicago building owners ask us
Can you paint over a running production line?
Often, yes, with containment tented over the equipment and the work sequenced bay by bay. Where a line has to stop, we plan the shutdown window with you and staff it to finish inside it.
Do you blast steel before priming?
When the spec calls for it. Abrasive, crushed-glass and dustless blasting are in-house, so bare-metal prep on tanks, columns and machinery is the same crew, not a second vendor.
Do you work in food plants?
Yes. Food-safe and USDA-acceptable coating systems, wash-down rated finishes, and scheduling around sanitation cycles are standard on our food and beverage jobs.
How do you handle old coatings that might contain lead?
We test first. Where lead is present the prep is done under containment with the right controls and disposal, and that is priced as its own line so there are no surprises.
Are your crews employees?
Yes. Every painter and blaster on a Chicago industrial job is an Allied employee with a foreman on site every shift.
Serving Chicago and nearby
Chicago's industrial corridors from the Calumet region to the North Branch, plus the manufacturing suburbs along I-55, I-290 and I-294.
Also in Chicago: commercial painting, commercial floor painting and epoxy, industrial epoxy and clear-coat floors.
Industrial painting in other towns:
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Allied Painting Contractors, LLC
11N240 N Hawthorne St #2
Elgin, IL 60123
Phone: 847-429-4660
Hours: Monday to Saturday, 7 AM to 5 PM. Closed Sunday.
Send the building address and a few photos and we will come out, walk it with you, and send a written scope and price. No obligation.
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