New Product Announcement: High Solids Epoxy Lining

Sherwin-Williams Protective and Marine has recently announced the launch of its new NSF/ANSI/CAN 600-compliant high solids epoxy lining for potable water assets.

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Sustainable Color Retention: How SSPC Paint 47 Raises the Bar

Alora Earns US Green Seal Certification

Last week, Alora Paints announced in a press release that it had recently become the first and only Singapore-based paint company to receive to U.S. Green Seal certification, a global enviro...

Wet, Dry, Other: A Surface Prep Primer

by Lee Wilson

There is a vast rage of surface preparation methods widely used within the industry t...

Dusting Off an Old Standard

by Lee Wilson

Coatings generally fail in direct proportion to their lack of adhesion. It’s rather s...

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced that it was providing training scholarships to increase the number of certified individuals to remove what?

In March, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rulemaking to the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts for the first time in __ years.

The City of Portland, Oregon, recently announced the approval of recommendations to add Concrete Embodied Carbon Threshold requirements for city construction projects. Do you think these requirements should be adopted in other states?

The new Clean Hull Initiative calls on regulators, shipping companies, ports, coatings manufacturers, technology and service providers, as well as academic and research institutions to focus on biofouling management. Do you believe there should be a worldwide regulation for proactive hull cleaning?

In what type of environment is the use of a vapor-impermeable air/moisture barrier recommended? Are there guidelines or standards to help determine this?

I keep reading references to sweep blasting, but I can't find a standard for it. What is sweep blasting, and is there a standard for it in the U.S. or elsewhere?

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from JPCL, October 2019

SSPC Coatings+ 2020 Training & Certification

from JPCL, October 2019

MPI Commercial Coatings Summit

October 31 - November 1, 2022

Free Webinar:
Standards, Training and Certification
in the Oil & Gas Industry

March 18, 2015

Free Webinar: Coatings Over Waterjetted Surfaces

September 3, 2014

Architectural Coatings: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on architectural coatings.

Concrete: A PaintSquare Video Education Series

A collection of archived webinars focused on concrete coatings and maintenance.

Standard Guide for Preparation, Maintenance, and Distribution of Physical Product Standards for Color and Geometric Appearance of Coatings

issued by ASTM

This guide covers three levels of physical product standards (preparation, maintenance, and dis...

Standard Practice for Testing Water Resistance of Coatings in 100% Relative Humidity

issued by ASTM

Water can cause the degradation of coatings, so knowledge of how a coating resists water is hel...