Lifting The Lid

Architectural Coatings

Raising standards, protecting lives and property

1 December 2022 Mark Langdon Comments Off on Raising standards, protecting lives and property
Carl Burrell, Global Product Director – Fire at Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings, examines how innovation is generating new products in the intumescent coatings market and explores the science and technology being developed to anticipate demands now and for the future.

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Coating Inspection

What lies beneath

7 June 2021 Mark Langdon Comments Off on What lies beneath
Brookes Bell has seen more and more of its skills developed in the cruise sector applied to the superyacht industry, as the team advises owners, captains, managers, designers, engineers and shipyards on newbuilds, rebuilds and refits. Here, Arron Jackaman, a Senior Inspection Engineer talks about Brookes Bell’s non-destructive testing (NDT) services for the superyacht industry.

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Coating Inspection

Optimising measurement performance

7 June 2021 Mark Langdon Comments Off on Optimising measurement performance
All roads lead to Rome. In the case of tactile coating thickness measurement, that sentence could be adapted to read: all measurements lead to accurate readings. However, it is not that simple. Instead, it should be stated that there is at least one road that leads to Rome – but only if you use a reliable measuring method and device relevant to the application, explains Dr Martin Leibfritz, CEO of Helmut Fischer Global.

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Featured Article

Turning the Tide

28 May 2021 Mark Langdon Comments Off on Turning the Tide
Hempel was asked to provide Orbital Marine Power Ltd (Orbital) with a comprehensive coating solution for its world-leading tidal turbine – the Orbital O2. David Heal, Global Head of Renewable Energy & Performance OEM Segments at Hempel, explains.

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Coatings Technology

The next generation moisture cure polyurethanes

10 March 2021 Mark Langdon Comments Off on The next generation moisture cure polyurethanes
Perry Poppelaars, Director of Recoat UK Ltd, distributor for Steelpaint in the United Kingdom explains how Steelpaint, a German coatings manufacturer specialising in moisture cure polyurethanes, managed to reinvent MCPU technology and extend its life for the next decades to come.

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