About Turbine Coatings Inc.

Turbine Coatings Inc. was established in 1999 by Dr. Maggie Zheng. Maggie graduated with a Ph.D. in Materials Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked as a researcher at United Technologies Research Center, then at Pratt & Whitney, before joining Chromalloy as a production engineer. Maggie then joined GE Advanced Turbine Program as a senior engineer, developing materials and coatings for F and H industrial gas turbines. In 1999, Maggie started Turbine Coatings Inc. in Schenectady, NY, working on consulting contracts for the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense, National Labs, and NYSERDA. In 2004, Maggie started a production facility, TCI Gas Turbine Technologies, in Shanghai, China, repairing after-market gas turbine hot-section components. TCI’s customers were power plants that purchased industrial gas turbines from GE, Westinghouse, ABB, Siemens, and Mitsubishi all over China. Maggie developed and guided all shop repair procedures. In 2019, Maggie closed the Shanghai facility and returned to the United States.