Coppercoat Commercial
Commercial Antifoul Applications
Coppercoat Commercial is the most durable and long-lasting antifoul coating available. Since 1991 it has been delivering an exceptional level of performance and has transformed antifouling for a wide range of global commercial applications.
A single treatment of our water-based, copper-rich epoxy coating delivers protection even in the toughest environments for a proven 20 years or more. This has significant positive effects on budgets, efficiency and your valuable time.
Key Benefits
CHANGING THE COMMERCIAL MARINE LANDSCAPE
Coppercoat Commercial gives you ongoing protection for up to 30 years across a very wide range of applications.
The benefits to your business are far-reaching:
- Eliminates annual re-application costs such as lifting, dry-docking, dismantling and transportation
- Eliminates ongoing on-site maintenance requirements
- Eliminates problems of accessing complex components and reaching difficult locations
- Enables greater planning flexibility as components and machinery can be coated in advance with no 'ticking clock' of antifoul performance
- Eliminates downtime, enables continuous operation, frees up manpower for other tasks
- Reduces total fuel and energy requirements of equipment and support crews
- Conforms to increasingly stringent global regulations in territories including the USA
- Complies fully with all current antifoul legislation including Maritime Organisation (IMO) Resolution MEPC.102(48)
- Emits no toxic fumes or unpleasant odours
- Is non-ablative with a leach rate of less than 50micrograms/cu/cm2 after 30 days
- Is tin-free and uses copper responsibly sourced from recycled sources
- Requires no cleaning agent except water
- Utilises the latest water-based epoxy technology free from aggressive solvents
- Earned us the 'Most Eco-Friendly Business Award' at the China International Boat Show
- Effective in warm and cold conditions, at any depth, in any tidal or current conditions and in fresh or salt water
- Works perfectly and is stable on fast and slow moving or static parts of any size and complexity
- Delivers enhanced performance on coated components to enable much smoother ongoing operation between moving parts
- Creates a cleaner, smoother surface with lower friction and drag for better performance with lower energy requirements and greater longevity
- Eliminates growth in heavy duty situations such as canal walls and tide turbines as well as highly technical commercial equipment with strict operating parameters
- Easy to apply on a wide range of surfaces including GRP, iron, steel aluminium and concrete
- Protects against scour on foundations due to higher abrasion resistance than coatings designed to work in ice flows
- Prevents MIC (Microbial Induced Corrosion), a major problem on transition pieces and monopiles
- We have been delivering unbeatable performance since 1991
- Our performance and durability claims are based on fact and ongoing global applications
- Coppercoat has been fitted to more than 75,000 vessels across the world
- We source, pack and check the product ourselves to ensure quality control
- Commercial applications are widespread and across many sectors
- Coppercoat is currently being used in the nuclear, oil and gas, shipping, hydrography, water treatment and renewable energy industries
- The environmental credentials of Coppercoat provide peace of mind going into the future as changing regulations in antifoul become stricter by the year
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coppercoat treated and Untreated semi submersed ladders
Ladders immersed for 18 months showing the benefit of Coppercoat antifoul with no growth on the treated ladder.
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Commercial Marine Applications
Coppercoat Commercial delivers high performance fit-and-forget antifouling across the tough world of marine applications.
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- Can be left to perform year after year with minimal maintenance
- Maintains a smooth surface for maximum ongoing efficiency
- Can handle tough weather and high growth condition
- Can be applied during manufacture, long before installation
- Lasts at least ten times as long as conventional antifoul
From freezing and inhospitable oceans to warm tropical seas and lagoons, from oil platforms to nuclear power stations, Coppercoat Commercial is working hard to maximise efficiency, protection and performance.
Here are some examples in the Project Gallery below:
Renewable energy projects benefit from Coppercoat Commercial's extremely durable, smooth and long-lasting antifouling properties to ensure maximum energy harvest and minimum downtime.
Marine Current Turbines
Sited in the Orkney Islands in the highest reaches of the UK in the wild North Sea, these Coppercoat Commercial coated turbines have remained fouling free and efficient throughout their lifecycles. Both the Rolls Royce and Marine Current Turbines (MCT) installations have been performing efficiently with minimal maintenance for 14 years. The product was applied at the manufacturer's convenience prior to the turbines being towed out and installed.
Wave Energy Generators
Portland, Maine-based wave generating technology expert GWave is due to install its innovative 9 Megawatt wave energy device as part of the Wave Hub project off the coast in Cornwall, UK.
Like all wave energy installations this large scale Power Generation Vessel (PGV) has key components ideally suited to the unique durability and reliability of Coppercoat Commercial.
Tidal Barrages
The durability of Coppercoat Commercial is ideally suited to projects such as the Tidal Barrage in Swansea, because it prevents significant fouling and build-up and eliminates the time and costs associated with maintenance of difficult to reach moving parts.
Offshore Wind Farms
Multi-turbine wind farms require extensive ongoing maintenance, but this is significantly reduced with the top-to-bottom protection of Coppercoat Commercial, the world's longest lasting, most abrasion resistant antifoul.
Our product is being used on power take off cable flanges in a wind farm off the coast of Belgium, provides excellent protection for foundations suffering from scour and is the only solution to MIC (Microbial Induced Corrosion) in monopiles and transition pieces, an increasing concern in the windfarm industry.
Hydrography requires accuracy, reliability and durability in all marine conditions across the globe, and Coppercoat Commercial delivers unbeatable precision and performance in this highly scientific field.
Global Survey Vessels
The Western Geco Amazon Warrior global survey vessel has to gather data in varying sea conditions, and the delicate research equipment it tows is highly sensitive to marine growth.
Coppercoat Commercial enables smooth movement across the surface as the ship surveys the seabed, adding efficiency to fuel consumption and ensuring longer maintenance cycles.
Autonomous Ocean Robots
The Liquid Robotics Wave Glider SV3 solar-powered autonomous vehicle is the world's first ocean robot, built to travel the oceans gathering data and reporting its findings back to a central control centre. It is highly sensitive to growth build-up and would be very costly to maintain due to the distances involved without Coppercoat Commercial, which is helping these impressive vehicles to make smooth progress.
Subsea Sonars
The Atlas Elektronik Cerberus Mod2 Diver Detection Sonar (DDS) system is highly portable and works in ship-borne or installation situations.
Reliable performance can be the difference between life and death, so maintaining a smooth surface for the RADAR to penetrate is crucial. Coppercoat Commercial does the job.
Time is money in the oil and gas industry, and hardware is found in some of the world's least hospitable marine locations. Coppercoat Commercial has the durability to deliver unparalleled ongoing support in the toughest conditions
Subsea Coolers
Coppercoat Commercial is helping Bronswerk oil and gas coolers to perform with minimum maintenance in high growth areas on the sea bed.
Free flow of sea water between pipes is crucial for efficient operation, and this is assured because marine life is unable to attach itself to our antifoul.
Hydro Lift Pumps
The submersible Optima Pump System is designed with safety in mind in potentially dangerous situations. Oil and gas platforms require reliable safety systems that perform when required, and these pumps count on Coppercoat Commercial to ensure they can be called on to lift high volumes of water from sea to deck level at a moment's notice without a hitch, and with minimal maintenance.
Power Stations depend on safe, reliable components that work seamlessly as part of a complex overall system. By eliminating the scourge of obstructive marine growth, Coppercoat Commercial makes a significant contribution to ongoing, maintenance-light performance.
Nuclear Diffusers
Warm water encourages extensive growth and would normally require a higher level of maintenance and downtime, but Coppercoat Commercial cuts this to the bare minimum as it continues to perform in even the heaviest growth conditions as proven on these Costain/MoreConcrete nuclear diffusers.
Bar Screens
Power Stations including the one at Shoreham in the UK benefit from Coppercoat Commercial's ability to keep rodded grill intakes growth and mussel-free, ensuring uninhibited water flow and maintaining consistent water levels. It also creates a smoother surface for highly efficient operation of the automatic rod-cleaning rakes.
Coppercoat Commercial can be seen on more than 75,000 hulls across the world, and regardless of the location, water type, level of usage and weather conditions, it is an unbeatable solution for private and commercial vessels.
Scientific Vessels
This 125m weather monitoring ship no longer needs an annual costly application of traditional antifoul. Coppercoat Commercial has been providing ongoing protection for years with the added benefit of maintaining a smoother surface that enhances performance and reduces fuel costs.
Industrial Barges
These marine workhorses are all about reliable operation under difficult circumstances in area that often promote high growth.
With Coppercoat Commercial antifoul they can keep on doing their business smoothly and without costly, time-consuming interruptions for maintenance or re-application.
The water treatment industry is by its very nature one of the most fertile environments for marine growth, so Coppercoat Commercial is a perfect fit for businesses who want their business to flow smoothly.
Effluent Diffusers
These static installations in New Zealand have to deal with warm and highly nutritious surroundings which are very attractive to all sorts of marine life. Coppercoat Commercial keeps the flow smooth and consistent during operation and having our antifoul on the access panels also ensures these are always easy to open.
Intake Canals
Water treatment plants deal with warm, shallow, slow-moving water that is highly appealing to marine life. Intake canals like these in Abu Dhabi benefit from Coppercoat Commercial, not only because it keeps channels clear and smooth and machinery working efficiently, but also because it eliminates the need for constant scrubbing that can be damaging to the structure.
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Coppercoat Commercial Antifoul
Technical Specifications and Approvals
Coppercoat Commercial epoxy antifoul is water based, easy to apply and protects underwater surfaces against marine fouling for longer than any other - 30 years or more. It is available for use worldwide, including the USA.
The product has been successfully tested by the Health & Safety Executive, Paint Research Association and Lloyds Register, and fully complies with all current relevant International Maritime Organisation (IMO) resolutions including MEPC.102(48) (2001).
Being epoxy based, Coppercoat Commercial is classified as non-eroding and thus has a significantly lower environmental impact than conventional ablative antifoul paints. It is also fully approved by the HSE in compliance with UK and EU Law.
It consists of copper powder and resin, mixed at point of application and simply applied via roller or spray.
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The Future Of Antifouling Since 1991
TAILORED SOLUTIONS TO MATCH YOUR NEEDS
Coppercoat Commercial performs in the toughest working environments across the world's oceans.
Our product is supplied in quantities and individual packs that match your individual requirements and maintain product quality at the highest levels during application.
We are always on hand to provide advice and assistance.
COPPERCOAT® COMMERCIAL MANUFACTURED & DISTRIBUTED BY AMC LTD EST 1991
COPPERCOAT, COPPERCOAT SUPERYACHT AND COPPERCOAT COMMERCIAL ARE WHOLLY OWNED BRANDS OF AQUARIUS MARINE COATINGS LTD, UK
