Achieving A Utopian Green Coating Technology

摘要

Rubber has long been well documented for its multiple protective properties used to combat corrosion, wear, impact, vibration, cavitation, electrical and thermal insulation and sound attenuation; characteristics that are known to industry. This presentation sets out the development path of engineering an environmental VOC free sprayable rubber coating, a goal which at first bordered on organic transmodification or Alchemy. Achieving a successful green coating technology to comply with both current and future legislative and environmentally acceptable trends required an alternative development methodology focusing on Life Cycle Analysis ‘LCA’ of materials, process and finished product. This approach must be balanced against the compromise of delivering a credible cost effective and operationally acceptable system for contractors, buyers, specifiers, designers and engineers.