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A unique industrial grade water based paint for outdoor use drying in under an hour at 6degC unlike any other paint on the market. It has zero VOCs and provides the same protection
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No other water based, with zero VOCs, dries at such a low temperature and so quickly. The ability to dry in less than 1 hour also means that even if a rain shower falls on the same day the paint will not wash off. It also means that outdoor painting all year round is possible in the UK without emitting Volatile Organic Compounds into the atmosphere. Previously the only other method polluted the atmosphere. Industry shutdowns, availability of skilled staff and operational efficiencies require painting works to take place all year round. The SK Formulation solution makes this possible for the first time. Alkyd paints currently in use emit VOCs, take longer to dry at low temperatures. The SK Formulations solution provides the same protection without having the damaging environmental effects. The fast drying nature of the SK Formulations solution can also reduce the shutdown time required for high voltage electrical plant. This has the added advantage of reducing the risk of power outages to the electricity network – as switching a transformer out for painting reduces the number of transformers feeding the network. SK Formulations add robustness to network supply with the reduce shutdown requirements.
Key Benefits
Tens of thousands of gallons of paint are used in the UK every year. Metal work left outdoors suffers from the wonderful British weather and will corrode and rot away if not painted. But as the paint dries it releases Volatile Organic Compounds into the atmosphere. Products painted indoors can use water based paints saving the release of VOCs. But this paint needs temperatures over 20oC otherwise it will not dry. And if not dry, and it rains, all the paint washes off. A huge amount of plant and equipment sits outdoors and needs to be painted every few years. Working with SK Formulations, Rosh Engineering have adapted a radical and new double bonded polymer water based paint for applications in the electricity supply industry. It dries at temperatures as low as 6oC in under an hour. This means that valuable plant and equipment are protected with ZERO damage to the atmosphere. There are an estimated 1million power transformers in the UK. The largest will need 1000 litres of paint every 8 – 10 years. The smallest about 30 litres. The volumes required are enormous and the VOCs released from alkyd paints currently runs into millions of kilograms per year. There are about 120,000 electricity pylons in the UK all needing regular painting like the transformers. The amount of VOCs released by this industry alone is enormous, but no environmentally friendly solution that could be effectively applied all year round like alkyd paints was available until now.
Applications
Any metalwork that needs painting can have this unique double bonded polymer system applied to it.