How One Shipyard Is Making Paint Removal Cleaner and Greener

摘要

Removing old paint from ships hulls during maintenance drydocking is extremely labour intensive, is environmentally sensitive, and has to be performed within a short time to reduce costs and loss of revenue. The Blohm + Voss Repair yard in Hamburg typically has about 70 ships docking per year, with about 1 million m~2 (11 milion ft~2) of hull area to be processed.