PITTSBURGH — PPG Protective & Marine Coatings received the Society for Protective Coatings (SSPC) 2015 Military Coatings Project Award of Excellence for the performance of Amercoat® 235 primer, PSX® 700SG polysiloxane topcoat and ABC® 3 anti-fouling topcoat on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a 102,000-ton aircraft carrier that was refurbished in Norfolk, Virginia, last year.
The award is given annually by SSPC to recognize exceptional coatings work performed on U.S. military ships, structures or facilities.
Launched in 1975 and commissioned in 1977, the USS Eisenhower was stripped, recoated and returned to service during a 10-month project that began in November 2013. After removing the existing coating, general contractor and coatings applicator, General Dynamics NASSCO-Earl Industries, applied a two-coat, epoxy-polysiloxane paint system consisting of Amercoat 235 primer and PSX 700SG coating to the freeboard and island surfaces of the vessel. The underwater hull, which totaled more than 200,000 square feet of surface area, was treated with Amercoat 235 primer and ABC 3 coating, a self-polishing, high-performance, anti-fouling agent.
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