Graphite Innovation and Technologies has been awarded a contract valued at $2,400,000 by Transport Canada to investigate a new technology to help reduce the underwater noise and greenhouse gas emissions produced by marine vessels.
In the shipbuilding industry, repairs are a constant and inevitable fact of marine life, resulting in costly downtime and loss of earnings. This article explains how shipyards can put key technologies in the dock which offer speed, portability and efficiency.
Graphite Innovation and Technologies Inc. has developed an environmentally friendly, hard foul-release coating that can be easily cleaned and does not require the application of primer underlayers.
Shandong Shipping, Qingdao, China, has chosen to use Advanced Polymer Coatings Inc.'s high-performance MarineLINE® cargo tank coating system on a series of eight new-build chemical tankers.
Seacoat's newest hull coating release, SEA-SPEED V 10 X ULTRA, helps curb marine organism fouling on the front end and makes any hull cleaning operations much easier and less expensive than conventional hull coatings, all with zero negative environmental impact due to its non-toxic chemistry on the back end of the equation.
Jotun is collaborating with Odfjell Drilling to provide a premium anti-fouling and topside coating solution for the advanced drilling platform Deepsea Stavanger.
Following many years of extensive prototype trials in field tests, Chugoku Marine Paints Ltd. is ready to launch a new solvent-free epoxy coating that can be applied to water ballast tanks with standard application equipment that meets new Korean regulations under the Atmospheric Environment Conservation Act for the management of VOCs.
Coatings manufacturer Hempel delivered 14% growth and grew 2.5% organically in 2019, and its EBITDA margin ended the year at 10.5% for continuing business.
AkzoNobel announced a partnership with representative company Thomas H. Connolly & Sons to deliver enhanced service levels for yacht coatings customers in the United States and eastern Canada.
SLIPS Foul Protect N1x has successfully demonstrated the pathway to reducing marine fouling with a non-toxic, environmentally friendly approach combining the smooth and slippery liquid-based surface (Physical module) and highly branched amphiphilic SAPs (Chemical module).
