Roundtable: Contractors Discuss Business Prospects & Pain Points

This latest installment of JPCL’s quarterly roundtable-style features, which give readers a direct line of communication to representatives from all of the different sectors of the coatings community, focuses on industrial painting contractors across North America, the challenges they’re currently w...

Roundtable: Contractors Discuss Business Prospects & Pain Points

This latest installment of JPCL’s quarterly roundtable-style features, which give readers a direct line of communication to representatives from all of the different sectors of the coatings community, focuses on industrial painting contractors across North America, the challenges they’re currently w...

Congratulations to our 2021 Outstanding Contributors

The editors of JPCL are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 JPCL Readers’ Choice Awards, which recognize the top articles published in the Journal over the past year. Over the past weeks, dozens of JPCL readers cast their choices for the best articles of 2021 as part of the fifth-annual Read...

Congratulations to our 2021 Outstanding Contributors

The editors of JPCL are pleased to announce the winners of the 2021 JPCL Readers’ Choice Awards, which recognize the top articles published in the Journal over the past year. Over the past weeks, dozens of JPCL readers cast their choices for the best articles of 2021 as part of the fifth-annual Read...

Proactive Hull Cleaning in Challenging Operations at Sea

by Adam Stuchlik, Jotun Paints Inc.

For ship owners today, preventing biofouling is not only about protecting ships against hull damage or loss of earning capacity due to weight and reduced speed. The author introduces a new, remotely operated proactive cleaning system that can be employed to keep ship hulls clean while at port or at ...

Proactive Hull Cleaning in Challenging Operations at Sea

by Adam Stuchlik, Jotun Paints Inc.

For ship owners today, preventing biofouling is not only about protecting ships against hull damage or loss of earning capacity due to weight and reduced speed. The author introduces a new, remotely operated proactive cleaning system that can be employed to keep ship hulls clean while at port or at ...

Using Plural-Component Spray Technology Safely in Confined Spaces

This article, updated from an article previously published in JPCL in 2008, provides guidance for contractors using plural-component spray in permit-required confined spaces, with a focus on mitigating the hazards associated with confined spaces, equipment, coating materials and chemicals well befor...

Using Plural-Component Spray Technology Safely in Confined Spaces

This article, updated from an article previously published in JPCL in 2008, provides guidance for contractors using plural-component spray in permit-required confined spaces, with a focus on mitigating the hazards associated with confined spaces, equipment, coating materials and chemicals well befor...