PPG Supplies Metal Coatings for Port of Miami Tunnel
PPG Industries’ coil and building products group announced that it supplied DURANAR® XL and DURACRON® coatings to the recently opened Port of Miami Tunnel, which is made up of two 4,200-foot-long highway tunnels that travel under Biscayne Bay, connecting the MacArthur Causeway on Watson Island to the Port of Miami on Dodge Island.
DURANAR XL coating, specified by Arquitectonica, the Miami-based architectural firm that designed the tunnels, is a three-part coating system consisting of a urethane primer coat, a decorative color coat and a protective fluoropolymer clearcoat. Arquitectonica selected DURANAR XL Crystal Blue coating to cover the 4,000 metal panels lining both sets of tunnel walls.