Applied Coating Systems has created strategic alliances with major, quality-driven companies to fulfill its customers’ ever-growing needs.
LINE-XApplied Coating Systems offers its customers the exclusive LINE-X formula. The patented material, which is flexible and offers unmatched wear resistance, can protect a wide variety of commercial substrates, including roofs, stairways, parking structures, bridges, tunnels, roadways and ship decks. LINE-X also is used in military applications, such as bomb blast mitigation and chemical containment.
LINE-X provides many benefits in military and industrial settings, such as prolonged operational life with reduced maintenance and repair needs and enhanced employee safety. It has a proven performance track record in extreme environments, including marine and military applications, on ships, submarines and Humvees.
LINE-X is an instant setting, two component, 100 percent high performance aromatic polyurea spray elastomer system that offers corrosion protection for metals and wear resistance for most substrates. The patented coating contains zero VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds). It is 100 percent solid. LINE-X is designed as a user-friendly product for moisture-insensitive applications because of its pure polyurea chemistry. It offers exceptional adhesion properties for properly prepared substrates. The high performance formulation of LINE-X produces an excellent skin formation for chemical resistance and as a moisture protection barrier.
Application Guidelines Both the Iso “A” side and Resin “B” side should be preconditioned between 70o – 90o F before application. LINE-X XS-BK 350 must be applied using high pressure, plural component, heated, 1:1 by volume, spray equipment with 2000 PSI fluid pressure capability. LINE-X XS-BK 350 material (both Iso “A” Side and resin “B” Side) should be heated between 120o – 150o F. Spray equipment must generate adequate fluid pressure for proper mixing and best polymerization results.
NIPPON FUSSOApplied Coating Systems, Inc. has entered into an exclusive technical agreement with Nippon Fusso to provide fluoropolymer coating services to its US-based customers. Nippon Fusso recently closed its Hayward, Califonia plant and will consolidate its fluoropolymer operations in Japan and Korea.
With the signing of this agreement, Nippon Fusso has transferred the technology and materials necessary for Applied Coating Systems to effectively serve its U.S. client base at its state-of-the-art facility in Baltimore, Maryland. The 65,000-square-foot plant includes high quality robotic equipment and task-specific facilities.
Applied Coating Systems is already serving U.S. clients of Nippon Fusso at the same stringent levels of purity, quality, expertise and professionalism they have come to expect. Applied Coating Systems provides total production continuity and quality assurance, from initial design consultation to surface preparation and from coating application to assembly and final inspection.
Characteristics and Applications of Fluoropolymers Fluoropolymers have various advantages for applications in industries and daily life. Their chemical resistance is advantageous in the chemical industry field. Their ultra-smoothness, non-stick and anti-electrostatic properties are useful in various manufacturing processes. Fluoropolymers are commonly used on frying pans and other cookwares, because they have high heat resistance and non-stick properties.
Fluoropolymers are highly stable against most chemicals. They also offer a very low friction coefficient compared to other materials. In most cases, two parts should slide smoothly while they are keeping contact. Fluoropolymers have outstanding non-stick and easy-clean properties, eliminating the problem of raw materials and their containers adhering to each other during manufacturing process or shipping and becoming hard to clean. They are heat-resistant, even over 200 degrees Celsius, so they stand up to many processing technologies that utilize or generate heat.
FIREX™ from MinteqApplied Coating Systems offers its customers protection from fire and thermal threats to personnel and property through the use of FIREX™ coatings, manufactured by The Pyrogenics Group of Minteq International, Inc.
FIREX™ was originally developed in response to the U.S. Navy’s Cook-Off Improvement Program, launched in part because of catastrophic fires on the USS Forrestal and the USS Enterprise. The U.S. Navy now uses FIREX™ products to control potentially life-threatening situations.
The Pyrogenics Group is a technological leader in the realm of specialized fire and thermal protection coatings. Pyrogenics FIREX™ coatings have provided fire and thermal protection for personnel and property for over 30 years.
FIREX™ coatings are used to "buy time" ... critical time... for the containment and suppression of thermal threats to personnel, equipment and structures. The coatings also are used to protect surfaces exposed to high thermal flux and aerodynamic shear by intumescence or ablation. FIREX™ coatings absorb and reject thermal energy in a controlled and predictable manner.
FIREX™ coatings are used in numerous military and defense applications, including ships, tanks, military vehicles, shelters, aircraft and space vehicles. In addition, The Pyrogenics Group has teamed with the U.S. Army’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) to provide predictive modeling of applications based on FIREX™ products. These provide excellent test correlations. Moreover, The Pyrogenics Group can model the expected behavior of your application with its products and generate results to help guide your material selection process.
The attached video shows an aluminum panel comparison of FIREX™ protection, on the left, versus an unprotected panel, on the right. As both are heated to nearly 400º F, the treated FIREX™ aluminum is able to withstand this temperature without a significant rise in backside temperature of the panel.
>Over the years FIREX™ coatings have been utilized in numerous applications requiring fire and thermal protection. Those applications include ships, tanks, military vehicles, shelters, aircraft and space vehicles. They are especially protective in a jet fuel environment. Now FIREX™ coatings are available for chemical, oil and gas, and other applications.
