Bisso Marine acquires legendary lay barge
DECEMBER 23, 2015 — Houston headquartered Bisso Marine has acquired the offshore pipelay industry’s well-known derrick/pipelay barge Global Iroquois. Originally built in 1973, the 400 ft x 100 ft x 30 ft
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APC offers eco-friendly tank coatings formulations
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016 — Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC), Avon, Ohio, has developed a new “eco friendly” formulation of its MarineLine 784 cargo tank coating system with added performance benefits. More than 600
PPG sees growing demand for ice class coatings
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014 — PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) reports that its protective and marine coatings business is fulfilling growing demand for “ice class” marine coatings for hull protection with Sigmashield1200 coating. Developed from
Monitor Coatings to supply U.K. carrier flight deck coatings
AUGUST 22, 2014 — After a two-year test program, Monitor Coatings Ltd. has been awarded a contract to provide a nonskid, thermal gas wash resistant deck coating for the two largest ships
BMT Argoss and International Paint partner to deliver measurable hull coatings performance
BMT Group member BMT Argoss has formed a partnership with International Paint to deliver demonstrable and transparent improvements in performance, efficiency and environmental emissions for the global shipping fleet. They say that
VIDEO: AkzoNobel protects ultra deep drilling research vessel Meng Xian
AkzoNobel reports that Meng Xian, China’s first domestically designed and built ultra deep-sea research drilling vessel is being protected by more than 300,000 liters of marine coatings supplied by its International brand.
PPG wins 50th order for electrostatic application of antifouling
PPG (NYSE: PPG) has won its 50th order for the electrostatic application of marine fouling control coatings. The project will be carried out on the VLCC Sidr a 336-meter oil tanker operated
Op-Ed: Closing the gender equality gap in maritime
By Dr. Victoria Frank, technical manager at AkzoNobel In June, industries celebrated International Day of Women in Engineering. This awareness campaign brings to the surface all of the fantastic achievements made by
Big data technology predicts realized vessel performance over five years
International Marine Coatings has published a new white paper that shows that its predictive Intertrac Vision tool, which uses big data technology, has a high degree of accuracy in correlating to the
AkzoNobel: 10 years of Intersleek 1100SR data demonstrate big fuel and CO2 savings
AkzoNobel says that real world performance data gathered from ships coated with its International brand’s Intersleek 1100SR fouling release coating indicate that, in the ten years since its release, it has cut