PPG Supplies Metal Coatings for Port of Miami Tunnel
PITTSBURGH – PPG Industries’ coil and building products group 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.