LF-8149 Performance of Industrial Coatings
Technical Articles
Posted 1994
Last Updated 1994
The performance and durability of 11 industrial coating systems were studied for two and a half years at five weathering sites in the industrial belt of Shuaiba Area, KU'wait, in the Arabian Gulf. Coating performance was related to prevailing industrial atmospheric conditions and compared with their behavior in laboratory accelerated tests. Experience has shown that under conditions like those in Kuwaiti industrial areas, degradation of coatings has tended to be faster than in the Western countries for which most of these coating systems were developed.