AkzoNobel in the UK has officially opened a trailblazing lab complex that can test new products in conditions that mimic the world's most extreme environments. Located in the company’s Felling site, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England, the €12.6 million R&D innovation campus fuses the site's 115-year history of product development with state-of-the-art facilities.
Years ago, mariners covered the hulls of vessels with copper sheeting to provide anti-fouling properties. Today, Corrocoat Biofoul, a heavy-duty anti-fouling coating, works in a similar way, presenting a protective, copper-rich surface to fouling agents.
Swedish biotech innovator I-Tech AB has developed a new drop-in, dust-free dissolvable packaging system to enhance the way the antifouling active agent Selektope® is added to marine coatings during the manufacturing process.
Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings, together with the U.S. Navy and Mid-Atlantic Coatings Inc., earned the SSPC Military Coatings Project Award of Excellence for their work on the USS George Washington super carrier.
PPG announced the U.S. and Canadian launch of PPG NOVAGUARD® 810 ER, which protects fuel tanks, ballast tanks and the internal and external superstructures of tugs and barges.
The 2018 Sherwin-Williams Impact Award, which recognizes outstanding water and wastewater projects, goes to a 3-million-gallon water storage tank restoration project performed under difficult conditions.
The Sherwin-Williams Co. hosted Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly on Thursday, Aug. 30 at the company's Warrensville, Ohio, lab to demonstrate its innovative protective coatings solutions for combatting corrosion in harsh marine environments.
Tankguard Flexline from Jotun is built on the Flexforce technology, ensuring excellent cargo resistance, quick port turnarounds and lengthy maintenance intervals.
The restoration of British speedboat racer Donald Campbell's Bluebird, a record-breaking hydroplane, has been ongoing since the wreckage of the vessel was recovered in 2001, but it was only when the iconic blue paint was applied that the famous Bluebird really came back to life.
