Hempel has launched HEMPAGUARD®, a groundbreaking new hull coating concept for the shipping industry that offers both outstanding resistance to fouling during idle periods and significant fuel savings.
Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings launched SeaGuard, an app that provides users with protective coating recommendations for VLCC/VLBCs, chemical tankers and OSV/PSVs.
With the April 2013 acquisition of AkzoNobel’s North American architectural coatings business by PPG Industries, customers can now purchase PPG Protective and Marine Coatings (PMC) products at DULUX® Paint stores across Canada.
Coating formulators are reducing solvent content to comply with more stringent environmental regulations on VOC emissions, constraining the performance of new protective and marine coatings.
The Asia-Pacific marine coatings market is expected to witness steady growth owing to robust development of the shipbuilding and offshore engineering industries in the region.
The topsides of the USS Freedom have been repainted using AMERCOAT® 240 edge-retention epoxy and PSX® 700SG epoxy-polysiloxane coatings by the company’s protective and marine coatings (PMC) business.
Scientists in the Chemistry Division at the Naval Research Laboratory have developed a novel two-component siloxane-based non-skid coating for use on flight-decks and walk-ways of U.S. Navy ships.
