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COATINGS coming popular instead.

In developing

In the last couple of years, Subsea

Industries’ sister company Hydrex the new type has noted a substantial increase in the number of enquiries for underwater approval, rudder repairs and offers its Ecoshield coating to protect against cavitation

Heather Hughes, damage. The company has also had success with the coating for preventing

Team Leader for corrosion damage in scrubber tanks, pipes and outlets.

Non-Metallics

Recognizing that coatings them- and Coating selves are an important asset, Lloyd’s

Register (LR) awarded the maritime

Materials at LR, industry’s ? rst Enhanced Antifouling

Type Approval to GIT Coatings last reached out to year. The establishment of the ad- vanced approval is a direct response to coatings manufacturers to gather the IMO’s 2023 biofouling guidance for “The Control and Management data on the cleanability and of Ships’ Biofouling to Minimize the

Transfer of Invasive Aquatic Species.” performance of their coatings.

Image courtesy Lloyd’s Register @ PPG, IT’S ELECTROSTATIC

Introduced in 2024 to the marine wards the PPG ? agship products PPG performance, helping to decrease the industry, PPG recently celebrated a SIGMAGLIDE and NEXEON,” said emissions up to 35% as compared to milestone in the update of electrostatic Ariana Psomas, Global Segment Di- traditional antifouling coatings. “An application of marine fouling coatings, rector New Build & Dry Dock, PPG. exciting addition to sustainability is a process that in practical application SIGMAGLIDE, is a fouling release that both SIGMAGLIDE and NEX- has proven to save a lot of paint and coating using a very low surface en- EON are designed to be applied with effort in minimizing overspray. “We ergy material that Psomas says can de- electrostatic application, as such reduc- see a signi? cant shift in demand to- crease friction and improve operational ing coating overspray and waste and

Electrostatic application [left] depends on ‘Charged’ paint to cut overspray and waste, says Ariana

Psomas, Global

Segment Director

New Build & Dry

Dock, PPG [right].

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