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A Simple and Effective Approach to Developing and Maintaining: A Maintenance-Painting Program

Product Number: 41209-515-SG

Author: Kirk Shields, Ernst Toussaint

Publication Date: 2009

$20.00

There are a number of petrochemical plants that experience equipment failure and production loss due to corrosion. Proper maintenance of their existing equipment greatly reduces a plant’s down time therefore allowing production to continue. For those facilities that do not have an existing maintenance-painting program, we have developed a beginners / non-technical program guide that is easy to understand and implement as it addresses many plant’s existing and future coating systems.

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Applying Common Sense to Moisture Vapor Emissions and Moisture Content Test Requirements When Coating Below Grade Concrete Structures in Wastewater Applications

Product Number: 41216-989-SG

Author: R. A. Nixon

Publication Date: 2016

$20.00

When establishing the minimum conditions suitable for coating concrete, many coating manufacturers, and hence specifying engineers and contractors, generally rely on unrealistic moisture content and moisture vapor emission rate requirements. These compulsory values are founded on laboratory testing rather than field experience, or worse still, on supposition rooted in unachievable and unrelated requisites.

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Blasting at Long Distance. Corrosion Maintenance on the Sydney Harbour Bridge: a 30 Year Case Study

Product Number: 51220-245-SG

Author: Charlie Gooden

Publication Date: 2020

$20.00

The aim of this case study is to identify the challenges of blasting a large bridge, blasting at long distances from equipment, and painting on a maintenance program vs the whole bridge. Then we provide recommendations and suggestions how to make it profitable, based on real-life project experience.

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Business Planning as a Management Tool

Product Number: 41207-355-SG

Author: Ronald A. McKenzie

Publication Date: 2007

$20.00

Business planning is often an overlooked management tool. Developing a business planning mindset to manage people and to tackle challenges is often the only difference between successful companies and ones that struggle with the same issues year-after-year. This seminar will give you tools to set the plan into motion.

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Corrosion Under Insulation (CUI) Management – A Case History

Product Number: 51219-196-SG

Author: David A. Hunter

Publication Date: 2019

$20.00

Pond investigated pressure vessel tank failures which are causing recurring maintenance of $250,000 per year. This challenging project had limitations of space, operational time pressures/vessel availability requirements, cost and replacement variables. This presentation will chronical problems and discuss best practices of specifications, material selection, surface preparation, and application inspection that would have prevented the aforementioned outcome. This paper discusses the fundamentals of composite coatings, industry accepted design standards for their use, and examples of typical uses for these materials that solve problems in varied industries.

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Defining the Inspector’s Role and Responsibility an Essential Element of Successful Coating Project

Product Number: 41210-552-SG

Author: Robert P. Maley

Publication Date: 2010

$20.00

An Inspector’s duties can vary widely from project to project, quite often straying from the traditional observe, verify, and record. This paper examines the plethora of problems that can develop should an inspector be assigned too much or too little responsibility, as well as how best to avoid such developments.

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Developing an Efffective Coating Specification

Product Number: 51216-017-SG

Author: Breck Vernon

Publication Date: 2016

$20.00

This presentation will describe best practices for preparing a quality specification for applying protective coatings and linings to industrial structures. A well-prepared specification helps ensure that the contractor performs the work required in the allotted time. The presentation will focus on developing appropriate requirements for applying coatings and linings to obtain maximum system performance, service life, and protection of substrates in the prevailing service environment.

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Effect of Feathering on Coating Performance

Product Number: 51219-181-SG

Author: Patrick Cassidy, Michael Kibler

Publication Date: 2019

$20.00

Feathering is the process of tapering or blending-in an existing intact coating in preparation of applying a new repair coating. This industry common practice is intended to ensure good adhesion of the repair coating to the legacy coating, and to provide a seamless aesthetic transition for areas where maintenance painting is performed. There are no industry standard requirements for performing feathering, resulting in most specifications having their own unique definition.

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How Specific is Your Coating Specification?

Product Number: 51220-236-SG

Author: S. G. Croll, C. Gu, V. Upadhyay, B. D. Keil

Publication Date: 2020

$20.00

For a coatings project to become a Successful Coatings Project, the coatings specification should be clear and concise to be useful to the intended audience. The contractor, the owner and any other parties should be able to find and understand key elements such as the scope, surface preparation (including the appropriate standards) and the specified coating or lining system with the approved alternates.

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How to Maximize Your Profits Through Various Product Estimating and Application Tips and Techniques

Product Number: 41207-318-SG

Author: Jeff Davis, Akzo Nobel

Publication Date: 2007

$20.00

Painting contractors can maximize their profits by directly demonstrating the value in their pricing and service, looking for opportunities to increase the scope of work for each job and investing in efficient techniques that allow them to carry out more jobs.

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Hubble Bubble Tests and Trouble: The Dark Side of Misreading the Relevance of Coating Testing

Product Number: 41210-558-SG

Author: Mike O’Donoghue, V.J. Datta, Mike Winter, Carl Reed

Publication Date: 2010

$20.00

Aside from the use of successful track records, it is commonplace for coating specifications to be written based upon test criteria deemed important by specification authorities. But are the tests relevant to the intended service environment? Or has the meaning of the test data been misinterpreted? Perhaps the tests have been ascribed a level of accuracy and dependency that the test method simply cannot deliver. These are vital factors to be considered if a coating specification is to be supported in a meaningful way and to prevent all sorts of problems.

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Lessons Learned for Painting Over Hot-Dip Galvanizing

Product Number: 51217-048-SG

Author: Kevin Irving

Publication Date: 2017

$20.00

This paper provides an introduction to the hot-dip galvanization process as an effective and important coating option and the necessary surface preparation steps for successful painting over hot-drip galvanized steel, also known as a duplex system. Proper practices and procedures must be used to prepare new and weathered zinc-coated surfaces on after-fabrication steel products for painting to improve the bond of paint to the zinc surface and provide long-term protection against corrosion.

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