Marine Coatings
precise needs of our customers’ businesses, operations, trading
routes and commitment to sustainability. Using more than 3. 5
billion data points, Intertrac Vision provides accurate and transparent predictions on the fuel and CO2 savings potential of all
our products, and incorporates ship powering requirements for
representative hull forms including LNG carriers, bulkers, tankers, container ships and cruise vessels.
From a product perspective, the most recent coating
launched to the market in March 2016 is Intercept 8500 LPP,
AkzoNobel’s highest-performing biocidal antifouling in the
company’s International range of marine coatings.
Intercept 8500 LPP is the culmination of ten years of R&D,
and investment in innovation by AkzoNobel’s research scientists, hydrodynamicists and marine biologists. The coating provides multiple benefits to ship owners and operators, including
improvements in operational, cost and environmental efficiencies. These are delivered through Intercept 8500 LPP’s consistent predictable linear polishing fouling control performance,
which lasts for in-service periods of up to 90 months, even on
high risk fouling routes. Intercept 8500 LPP also comes with extended performance guarantees, proven in-service performance
on high fouling routes, and a unique polymer combination that
incorporates AkzoNobel’s patented Lubyon technology with a
silyl methacrylate self-polishing copolymer.
AkzoNobel’s Marine Coatings business has also recently launched a best-in-class anticorrosive universal primer,
Intershield One-2-One, which delivers simplified maintenance,
waste avoidance and enhanced corrosion protection.
This is a surface tolerant universal primer for use during on
board maintenance. It is based on the company’s Intershield
300 pure epoxy technology, which provides a unique balance of
abrasion and corrosion resistance with optimum levels of hardness and flexibility, delivering long-term performance and effective corrosion control.
Application of Intershield One-2-One can reduce paint wastage significantly, as well as reducing the risk of incorrect mixing and subsequent coating failure. These benefits are possible
thanks to the availability of small crew-friendly pack sizes with
an equal mix ratio that can be handled with ease by users.
Hempel
Hempel’s fuel-saving hull coatings package is the most comprehensive on the market, and we also offer a number of other
cost-saving coatings. A cargo hold coating for bulk carriers was
launched in 2014 named Hempadur Impact, which protects
ship cargo holds from both mechanical damage and the severe
abrasion caused by loading hard, angular cargoes. With a short
drying time and a seven and-a-half year major repair interval,
this product ensures vessels spend less time in drydock and significantly reduces maintenance requirements.
In Asia Pacific, Hempel launched Hempadur Easy, a dura-
ble epoxy primer that was developed in response to customer
demands for a reliable, user-friendly and flexible coating for
use in drydock under all climatic conditions. Hempadur Easy
can be used on almost all vessel surfaces. It requires minimal
surface preparation and offers fast drying and re-coating times,
which enables customers to reduce costs by spending less time
in drydock.
In addition, Hempel extended its Hempadur Quattro XO
range of ballast tank coatings to include a number of specific
versions developed to suit different yard working methods and
VOC requirements. Hempadur Quattro XO products are IMO
PSPC (Performance Standard for Protective Coatings) approved
for water ballast tanks and COT (crude oil tanker) approved,
and they offer extended over-coating windows and optimised
workability for greater shipyard efficiency.
PPG
Companywide, PPG invests approximately $1 billion every two
years on improving our coatings to bring more value to our
customers. Some specific innovations available to our marine
customers include:
Sigma Sailadvance range: a series of antifoulant products
that utilize PPG’s controlled surface active polymers (CSP) tech-
nology. These products boast superior fouling protection, lon-
ger idle times and improved low-friction surface properties.
Sigmashield MTC: a premium cargo hold coating which utilizes a unique chemistry and delivers outstanding mechanical,
thermal and corrosive protection to dry cargo holds. CW
In Asia Pacifc Hempel recently launched Hempadur Easy, a durable epoxy primer.
