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ARE YOU RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTENANCE COSTS?

THE BOTTOM LINE IS COST REDUCTION.

TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE FACTS ABOUT THE PRORECO DECK COATING SYSTEM WHICH HAS A

HISTORY OF PROVIDING A SIGNIFICANT REDUCTION IN DECK MAINTENANCE COSTS. • FACT No repetitive metal surface preparation cost — one time only. • FACT Complete elimination of metal loss and replacement due to corrosion. • FACT Providing a fire-retardant, fuel and oil resistant, protective deck covering with 3 to 7 times the service life of other coatings. • FACT A minimum of 50% reduction in labor and material deck maintenance costs. • FACT A 15 year service history of providing deck maintenance cost savings on all types of high wear deck surfaces including aircraft carrier flight decks, helicopter landing platforms on military ships and on offshore drilling rigs, cruise ships, cable laying ships, ice breakers, fishing vessels and ocean going towboats of all types.

Before a coating can protect your deck, it has to protect itself. b t Most deck coatings hav t a fatal flaw.

Even when they're called "heavy duty? conventional paint-type coatings are brittle.

Xto- They crack, chip, and spall easily because they have no kmg-term resistance to a ship's norma) stnictural movement and vibration. Nor do they resist impact deck coating gives it a break.

Once moisture Mjt ^MMPjl reaches your steel yr/f MjSC^SS deck, harmful a>rro- h ilLJgrJ^^^ diately^onstant re- fjfefc^ ~ maintenance are the only solution.

A PRC Prorcof coatings system protects your deck better, because it protects itself. The elastomeric base, coat is not brittle, so it won't crack like epoxy coatings or cement-type deck coverings. It resists the heaviest impact and abrasion.

The corrosion-inhibiting primer does not .sacrifice itself as does zinc, so it stops corrosion short even if a rupture occurs.

No other oompany offers products with a track record of more than 10 years' service with virtually no maintenance costs.

All types of ships use the PRC

Proreai systems to virtually eliminate ongoing deck maintenance costs: towboats, offshore rigs, cruise ships, commercial fishing boats, U.S. Naval and U.S. Oast

Guard ships of all types.

Ask about our tYoreco interior and exterior decking systems. Write to Rodney

N. Morris, Marine Products Manager,

Products Research & Chemical Corp.,

P. O. Box 1800. Glendale, CA 9120ft

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Systems ^m^^mm^aimvx and major coatings pay for themselves many times over, it costs, uime other coaiing$ on the For information, ca!! your nearest PRC representa- • reS&iW PRORECO* »l system protects ovi or write to Rodney N. Morris, Marine ^ asioa find impact as well as corrosion. Products Manager PRC. 5454 San /~V with three layers:a corrosroa mbibifive Fernando Road. Glendale, Caltf. 91203. IPRCJ

The PRORECO2 III Deck Coating System

The PRORECO® III Deck Coating System

Products Research & Chemical Corporation 5430 San Fernando Road, P.O. Box 1800

Glendale, CA 91209 (213) 240-2060

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