Year: 2016

Oil, gas and water industries are the major contributors to a worldwide network of more than 25,000 km of pipelines every year, with demand continually rising. A projected $11.63 billion will be spent on coating […]

AkzoNobel has finalized the acquisition of BASF’s global Industrial Coatings business, which supplies a range of products for industries including construction, domestic appliances, wind energy and commercial transport, strengthening its position as the global number […]

The long-awaited publication of the International Standards Organisation guidelines for measuring hull and propeller performance has now been published. Initial hopes for the ISO suggested that it might provide a means of comparing the efficiency […]

Subsea Industries have announced that the Océan Taiga, North America’s most powerful ice-going tug, will feature the Ecospeed coating system. The vessel is owned by Groupe Océan, who already use the hard coating on nine […]

[Manchester, UK] – The non-destructive measurement of dry film thickness on concrete is now more accurate, faster and much easier than ever before, thanks to the new Elcometer 500 Coating Thickness Gauge for coatings on […]

November 15th 2016 (Brussels, Belgium) Ninety eight polyurea industry representatives from across Europe gathered at the PDA Europe Annual Conference and Exhibition from 8 to 9 November in Nice, France. PDA Europe, the Polyurea Development […]

The demands on a coating for low temperature environments are rarely as challenging as on the Halley VI research station, now sitting on the 130 metre-thick Brunt Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Weddell Sea. Typical […]