Coatings & Corrosion Control
Carnival Uses Intersleek 900
International Paint completed a hull coating project on Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Victory. The seven-yearold Italian-built vessel, one of a fleet of 23 passenger liners, was coated with Intersleek 900 during a recent drydocking in the Grand Bahamas Shipyard in Freeport, Grand Bahama, in late 2007. Carnival Valor is was due to be coated with Intersleek 900 in early 2008. Intersleek 900 was chosen following a long evaluation of the Intersleek 700 foul release system by Carnival Cruise Lines. According to International, Intersleek 700 demonstrated that the coating decreased fuel consumption and improved hull maintenance. Secondary benefits of using Intersleek 700 included a reduction in the amount of hazardous wash water and contaminated grit produced during coating repair, fewer coats and less paint applied at subsequent drydockings, fewer volatile organic compounds released during the painting process and less time spent in drydock. "The Intersleek coating has definitely proven to be effective on Carnival's vessels in terms of improving vessel speed and energy efficiency along with preventing fouling build up on the underwater hull," said Roberto Martinoli, the Executive VP of Carnival Cruise Lines who was involved in the evaluation of Intersleek 700. As Carnival continued to evaluate Intersleek 700, initially coating only the underwater sides of ships, the company extended the areas coated as the benefits of the product were realized. Carnival Ecstasy, for example, only had the underwater sides coated in 2002, two years later the underwater sides and boottop were coated and in 2006 the entire underwater hull was coated with Intersleek 700. Earlier in 2007, Carnival Cruise Lines decided to extend the Intersleek fleet usage to 10 vessels and signed a long term supply agreement with International Paint Ltd. Carnival Cruise Lines chose Intersleek 900, the new patented fluoropolymer foul release coating for the recent docking of the Carnival Victory and the impending docking of the Carnival Valor. Cruise Newbuild with Intersleek 900 MSC Cruises, Italy's largest styled cruise company and one of the biggest cruise ship operators in Europe is the world's first company to apply the revolutionary, biocide free, foul release coatings system Intersleek 900 on a cruise ship newbuilding. The application on the underwater hull of the 23-knot, 92,400 gt poetry of the seas MSC Poesia, scheduled to debut in March 2008, was carried out at predelivery drydocking of the vessel in St Nazaire, France in early January 2008 by Aker Yards, one of the world's largest builders of sophisticated ships. Giorgio Fabbi, Senior Sales Manager,
Carnival Victory.
International Paint Italy said, "Intersleek 900 is an excellent product, providing significant performance and environmental benefits for both the ship operator and the shipyard. This successful first of a kind application was only made possible however by a first class team effort from all parties involved. I would
like to thank MSC Cruises for their trust and support, Aker Yards, France for accepting new challenges and representatives from International Paint Italy, France and the U.K. for their dedicated assistance".
For more information, visit http://www.international-marine.com
Cartridge Packaging and Dispensing Equipment
Sherwin Williams Key Industrial & Marine Products packaged in convenient disposable cartridges to improve quality, performance and ease of application. Cartridges are designed to provide a cost-effective solution that eliminates waste and increases productivity through mix-ondemand technology. Advantages touted by the manufacturer included: reduced set-up and cleanup; minimized pot-life constraints; elimination off-ratio mixing; use only the paint you needed; reduced hazardous waste and worker exposure; available in 1:1, 2:1, 3:1 and 4:1 volumetric mix
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ratios. Key products incorporating this type of packaging are Fast Clad ER, DuraPlate UHS, NovaPlate UHS and Military Specification Products such as Mil-PRF-24441. For more information, visit
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paint industry with solvent free and edge retentive coatings. Phenalkamines are based on a renewable raw material, cashew nutshell liquid.
For more information, Email jeanluc.dallons@be.cardolite.com
Curing Agents from Cardolite
Phenalkamine curing agents from Cardolite Corp., derived from the cashew nutshell liquid , is designed to provide outstanding anticorrosion properties to epoxy coatings. This technology allows the paint formulator to provide the marine
Web-based Cargo Protection Guide
Hempel's new web-based Cargo Protection Guide (CPG) makes it easy to track down information on chemical resistant coatings. Launched in February 2008, the CPG provides up-to-the-minute cargo lists and data on Hempel's HEMPADUR 15400, HEMPADUR 15500 and GALVOSIL 15700 tank coatings. The new CPG database contains information on chemical resistance for more than 3,200 chemicals/cargoes. Using the software, users can search for: � the complete resistance for all
chemicals/cargoes � resistance for a specific list of chemicals/cargoes (IMO ship type, MARPOL pollution category or cargo/chemical groups) � resistance for one specific cargo/chemical � chemical resistance data for chemical synonyms The web-based CPG replaces the CDRom-based CPG version MD 05. It can be accessed at www.hempel.com
Measuring Coating Thickness
The thumb-size, 30-gram light measuring device QNix 8500 sat is designed to revolutionize the world of coating thickness measuring. The QNix Sat is a development that enunciates, in combination with QNix 8500 -- a freedom of coating thickness measurement.
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