Articles Tagged with ''Marine Coatings''

Challenging projects that preserved a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy vessel and protected a new renewable energy-producing dairy waste digester demonstrated excellence in the coatings industry.

In 2022, Hempel emphasized its focus on improving earnings by reducing costs to compensate for rising raw material costs and lower volumes.

The pure epoxy coating possesses a unique high solids formulation resulting in less of the product being required and fewer VOCs being released.

The coating helps shipowners lower power consumption and carbon emissions, meeting the demand for higher performance with no adverse impact on the marine environment.

The recoating work for the Greece-based shipping group is due to take place over March and April this year in China.

The contracts are for the application of the company’s MarineLINE tank coating to both newbuild tankers as well as recoating projects.

According to the report, the global industrial coatings market is projected to grow with a significant CAGR in the forecast period: 2023-2030. 

The new era of hard foul release marine coatings can maintain an optimal CII rating for vessel owners through superior mechanical properties and the ability to maintain low hull roughness and skin-friction drag. 

I-Tech’s technology, Selektope, and LANXESS’ technologies, SEA-NINE™ 211N and SEA-NINE ULTRA, belong to a set of active agents that are approved by regulatory bodies for ship repair and ship building markets. This joint R&D work undertaken by I-Tech and LANXESS represents the first time that these solutions have been used as co-biocides in marine anti-fouling coating formulations.

The agreement will see APC’s team work on two 49,990 dual-fuel DWT tankers, which are part of a fleet of six methanol powered dual-fuel tankers Guangzhou Shipyard International is building.