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Sherwin Williams

U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Wendi B. Car- penter, Commander, Navy Warfare De- velopment Command, Norfolk, Va., was the recent guest of Sherwin-Williams during Cleveland Navy Week. The U.S.

Navy, through its Office of Community

Outreach, included Sherwin-Williams in its Cleveland Navy Week schedule. Car- penter met with Sherwin-Williams Chair- man & CEO Chris Connor and senior management of the company’s Protective & Marine Coatings business for 90 min- utes. Among other projects, Sherwin-

Williams is the principal supplier in the current dry-docking and maintenance cycle of the U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt, providing the coatings for the underwa- ter hull, freeboard, topside and tanks at

Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in

Newport News, Va. In addition, the air- craft carrier Gerald R. Ford is being built utilizing Sherwin-Williams coatings technologies.

Sherwin-Williams manufactures coat- ings systems for maintenance and new build programs that require fewer coats and rapidly return to service, which re- duces application costs and shortens re- quired schedules. In ballast tanks, where the vulnerable edges can fail prematurely, the company was challenged by the Navy to develop an anti-corrosion technology that could achieve enhanced film thick- ness over edges, corners and welding seams, be installed quicker and returned to service faster. This year, a milestone for responsiveness was achieved when

Sherwin-Williams was awarded a $24m, five-year contract to supply coatings to the Navy’s yards at Puget Sound, Nor- folk, Portsmouth, N.H., and Pearl Harbor on a just-in-time (JIT) basis. This was the first national comprehensive JIT coatings contract to be awarded by the Fleet and

Industrial Supply Center based in Nor- folk. www.sherwin-williams.com

Hempel: Expands in U.S.

Hempel USA opened a warehouse and distributorship in Seattle, extending the company’s commitment to providing customers with top quality products and services.

Hempel teamed with Rudd Company, who is also a paint and coatings manu- facturer specializing in wood treatment.

Rudd is located in downtown Ballard, with a 150,000 sq. ft. warehouse, manu- facturing plant and retail store, and has been servicing the

Great Northwest since 1912.

Hempel’s main products, such as shop primers, fouling release solutions, an- tifoulings, epoxies, and topcoats, among others, are stored in this location. In ad- dition, on-site tinting will be available to provide for the timely supply of products required by the customer.

For more information, Email: [email protected]

International for NSCSA

National Shipping Company of Saudi

Arabia (NSCSA) achieved fuel savings and emissions reductions since adopting

Intersleek coatings technology on the hulls of eight VLCCs. The decision in 2006 by the National Shipping Company of Saudi Arabia (NSCSA), to apply In- tersleek 700 on the hulls of eight VLCCs has resulted in fuel savings of more than 6% and CO2 emissions cuts running into many thousands of tons.

NSCSA which runs a fleet of more than 30 vessels including 17 VLCCs, took the decision to replace self polishing copoly- mer (SPC) biocidal antifoulings with In- ternational Paint's biocide-free silicone-based foul release coating, Inter- sleek 700, when the eight ships were 24 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News

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