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BEYOND THE PAINT CAN

MARINE COATINGS TECH HELP

REWRITE THE ECONOMICS OF

HULL AND TANK PROTECTION arine coatings are literally on the front line between steel and seawater.

of protection for commercial ships and Over the past year, leading commercial marine coatings boats, and the product category rarely at- suppliers have quietly rolled out a series of developments that tract attention unless something goes wrong. re? ect a broader shift in the sector. The focus has moved away

MFew technologies exert more in? uence over from incremental formulation changes and toward measur- a vessel’s long-term operating cost, regulatory performance able, veri? able performance, supported by data, third-party and asset value. Hull resistance, fuel consumption, emissions validation and application innovation. The result is a new gen- compliance, drydock duration, cargo ? exibility and even off- eration of coatings designed not simply to protect steel, but to hire risk are all shaped, often decisively, by what is applied improve vessel economics across an entire service interval.

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