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PRODUCTS

Biofouling Demands

Selektope Antifouling

The effects of intense hard fouling on idle vessels can have great im- pact on a newly applied hull coating and on a vessel’s performance in sea trials. Hempel’s GLOBIC 9500S

AkzoNobel’s Intercept includes antifouling ingredient

Gill’s Blackwater Level Sensor 8500 LPP Saves Fuel, Selektope, an organic, non-metal for Marine Sewage Tanks

Reduces CO2 compound that repels barnacles on

Gill Sensors & Controls’ new Black-

Operators are saving fuel costs and hulls by temporarily stimulating the water Level Sensor technology was reducing carbon emissions with barnacle larvae’s swimming behav- developed to meet increased regu-

AkzoNobel’s patented biocidal anti- ior. Selektope does not compromise latory requirements for both black fouling coating Intercept 8500 LPP, the chemical structure, color or oth- and gray water discharge, and ad- part of the International product er biocides of marine coatings. dress the reliability and maintenance www.selektope.com range. The coating, which has seen issues with current Blackwater tank rapid adoption among customers content measurement solutions. with over 100 applications since its

Gill’s Blackwater Level Sensor 7014 launch in March 2016, has been es- features a technology break-thru timated to have saved vessels $25.5 with a simple probe and no moving million in fuel costs and 274,000 parts, providing an accurate new de- metric tons (MT) of CO2. vice for solid waste measurement. www.international-marine.com/Intercept www.gillsc.com

AkzoNobel, Royal Philips

Partner on Antifouling Coating

AkzoNobel has partnered with Royal

Philips to create a biocide-free, foul- ing prevention technology that uses

UV-LED light-emitting diodes in a protective coating. Fouling increases hydrodynamic drag, fuel consump-

BOLL & KIRCH BWMS Receives tion and stack emissions. The tech-

US Coast Guard Certi