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• No Abrasive Blasting
• Primerless, One-Coat System
• Greatly Extended Service Life
• Lower Installed & Life-Cycle Costs

The fight against the ravages of corrosion is a never-ending battle. To protect against service interruptions and expensive repair of structural steel, the correct coating needs to be specified. Every coatings manufacturer claims to solve problems, but only Si-COAT Elastomeric Anti-Corrosion Coatings provide a reliable, cost-effective solution.

Conventional coatings such as epoxies, polyurethanes, alkyds, vinyl ester, phenolic resins and zinc-rich coatings are merely short-term solutions to corrosion. Each of these coatings tend to fade, chalk and peel after prolonged service. As well, none can compare to the performance of Si-COAT in stopping corrosion undercutting. Even newer polysiloxane-epoxy copolymer coatings fail in tests passed by Si-COAT.

Si-COAT Anti-Corrosion Coatings are one-part, room temperature vulcanizing (RTV) polysiloxane protective coatings. The fact that they are single component products imparts many attributes that make them far more favorable coatings compared to conventional materials.

Mixing of chemicals at the job site is not required, nor are plural pumping systems. As well, Si-COAT Anti-Corrosion Coatings display superior resistance to UV light (the primary source of material degradation), ozone, many chemicals and normal weathering. This leads to unparalleled longevity of the product.

Because of its superior chemistry and adhesive properties, Si-COAT eliminates the need for abrasive blasting and profiling, hence minimizing surface preparation time and costs. As well, because Si-COAT is a primerless one-coat system, expensive priming is not required on almost all substrates and adhesion to metal surfaces is outstanding if not unsurpassed.

As well, existing installations coated with lead-based paints or containing asbestos insulation are easily encapsulated by Si-COAT. This avoids expensive abrasive blasting and containment. A typical lead containment case history on a large diameter pipe has shown 70% savings on overall project cost.

The elasticity factor of Si-COAT Anti-Corrosion Coatings ensures tolerance to thermal and vibrational expansion. This also applies to mechanical deformation due to various reasons. As well, because of Si-COAT’s elasticity and outstanding adhesion, corrosion undercutting (corrosion creep) is eliminated. This reduces maintenance requirements on the coating and greatly extends its service life.

In destructive test ranging from 180º bending, to heavy impact to abrasion to nearly four months in a salt-fog chamber at 60ºC (140ºF), Si-COAT coatings display results far superior to any competitor.