Did you know that a sustainable strategy of painting both sooner AND later will help to significantly reduce your VOC emissions over time? Find out how.
By Dwayne Lum |
Solution Spot
Safety considerations are paramount for asset owners and safety engineers when making decisions that impact the design of workplaces—especially in already high-risk environments.
While cost is an important factor, sustainable coatings and linings deliver significant advantages that maximize an asset’s life cycle over the long run. Find out how.
In a post-pandemic world, here are three reasons why companies in the industrial and process industries should leverage a single-source coating supplier.
Use these tips to address the four most common types of cold weather coating application issues often faced by applicators and contractors during the winter season.
Since their inception, fire tubes have caused corrosion challenges in the Oil & Gas industry. Here's how to find the right fire tube coating for corrosion protection.
Corrosion is corrosion, regardless of the industry. Here's how we helped a municipality protect their steel water tanks by following a petroleum industry spec.
Epoxy-based coatings may be the gold standard for resinous flooring, but they have their issues. Here's how cementitious urethane coatings eliminate them.
Selecting the right water storage tank lining is all about context. Here are the three main questions to consider when searching for a water tank lining that suits your specific needs.
Carboline’s Technical Service team is often contacted by contractors, owners and specifiers looking for corrosion-resistant coating systems with high-performance characteristics for small carbon steel structures in exterior environments. These projects can...
Environmental conditions are vital to the life of a coating system—not just during application, but before and after the coating is applied as well. Conditions that fall outside of the recommended guidelines can have both an immediate and delayed adverse effect on the coating system.
Depending on the specific circumstances at hand, there’s a surprising level of variability in how the application process is performed and which types of industrial coating systems are best suited for the job. For instance, a fluorourethane or polysiloxane coating may be chosen for a water tank...
One common industry practice occurs when painters are preparing to apply industrial coatings for the first time. With catalyzed coatings, part A and part B are mixed together according to the instructions. Purely out of habit, a stir stick is then used to assess the consistency...
When it comes to linings for wastewater applications, concrete substrate has always been trickier than its steel cousin. This is largely because there are so many factors to consider—from concrete repair, laitance removal and new concrete cure times, to outgassing...
In simple terms, a secondary containment area is defined as the containment of a leak or spill of a commodity that is being held in a primary containment unit, such as a tank or vessel. In order to properly specify a secondary containment lining…
Serving a vital function in the local community, wastewater collection systems are designed with underground pipes and maintenance structures used to collect and convey wastewater away from homes and businesses to be treated…