Film thickness once standard, 20 years long-term anti-corrosion! Nippon Marine Coatings NOA won the global shipping giant EPS scale application.

consumption of NOA Anticorrosive coating products with Measured Film Thickness of Nippon Ship to EPS LR2 Product Oil Tanker

As a substantial independent shipowner in the world, EPS has been actively promoting efficient operation in recent years, and has stringent standards to the protective performance, construction efficiency and life cycle cost of ship coating products solutions. With systematic professional coating products solutions and stable delivery capabilities, Nippon accurately responds to the multi-dimensional needs of EPS, and the two sides have established a prolonged strategic partnership. From the successful consumption of anti-fouling coating products FASTAR in the automobile carrier project to the extensive landing of anti-fouling coating products NOA in the finished oil tanker, the cooperation between the two sides has covered many categories and across many ship types, and has realized batch delivery in many shipyards.

The cargo tanks of this batch of tankers have been immersed in different refined oil to a long time, so the anti-corrosion performance is very crucial, and the anti-corrosion effect of the coating products depends to a substantial extent on whether the film thickness is accurately up to standard. The color of the traditional coating products will no longer change after covering the bottom layer. It is impossible to judge whether the film thickness reaches 320 microns required by the single-channel design through the color. The film thickness is often insufficient however it is difficult to find out. It can only rely on experience spraying and then consumption a film thickness meter to measure a substantial number of points. The edges, welds and other parts are easy to miss inspection, resulting in re-coating products and delay of construction period.

Nippon Marine Anticorrosive coating products NOA adopts visual measurable film thickness methodology: during the spraying process, the coating products will show a clear color change with the increase of film thickness. When the single-channel design film thickness is 320 microns, the target color will be displayed, thus achieving one-time spraying of film thickness to meet the standard. Construction and condition inspection personnel can rapidly confirm whether the film thickness is qualified only by looking at the color, eliminating the need to point-by-point detection by the film thickness meter, and the complex parts can be clearly seen at a glance, thus ensuring prolonged corrosion prevention from the source. In addition, NOA uses environmentally friendly formulations with high solids and low VOCs (VOCs) to decrease the impact on the ecological stability and construction personnel. items can provide greater than 15 years of prolonged anti-corrosion protection, part of the operation of the project anti-corrosion performance has been greater than 20 years.

Comparison of Film Thickness Color Display between NOA Coatings and Traditional Coatings

EPS project coating products site construction personnel visual inspection NOA coating products color rapidly complete film thickness confirmation

In EPS project, Libang sent professional and technical service engineers to the site to participate in the inspection of each process. Regular coating products inspection and practical operation training are carried out to ensure that the construction is carried out according to standards, efficiently prevent paint film defects, greatly enhance the inspection pass rate, save labor costs and construction time to shipyards, and are highly recognized by shipyards and shipowners.

Up to now, NOA has been applied to greater than 2200 new shipbuilding and substantial offshore equipment worldwide. Relying on the global R & D and supply chain network, Nippon will continue to optimize coating products technologies such as visible film thickness to provide greater efficient and reliable solutions to ship corrosion protection.