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Industrial Applications

Nano-Clear NCI was applied to a GATX tank

Global organizations have invested billions of dollars to protect valuable assets from corrosion, water damage, scratching, chipping, chemical attack and harmful UV rays. Many of these assets were painted using inferior materials not designed to withstand long-term weathering. Organizations have various options when these surfaces degrade from UV damage:

Do nothing and allow the paint weathering cycle to continue (resulting in reduced corrosion, chemical and water resistance).
Replace the existing paint system using the same conventional systems (epoxy topcoat, polyurethane topocoat or powder coating alone), achieving the same results.
Dramatically extend the surface life of painted assets by 10+ years using Nano-Clear® NCI Coating as a clear topcoating over most paints systems.

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Marine Application

Industrial Marine Coating

Nano-Clear NC 40 is the only coating in the global marketplace to enhance and extend the service life of painted assets by 15+ years.

Nano-Clear NC 40 penetrates deep into the pores of painted assets to dramatically improve gloss, surface hardness, chemical, corrosion and long-term UV resistance. Nano-Clear NC 40 is a one-component highly cross-linked polyurethane hybrid nanocoating system. NC 40 is designed to be used for above and below waterline applications.

NC 40 was developed to be applied as a clear topcoating directly over gelcoatings, epoxy, polyurethane and powder coat systems.

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High Performance Fleet Coating

Nano Clear NC 40 High Performance Fleet Coating

Introducing the world's first ambient cure clear nanocoating to exceed automotive OEM and military specifications. Nano-Clear NC 40 Coating & Nano-Clear SuperCARC for Military Applications are designed to dramatically extend the surface life of painted vehicles by 15+ years.

Nano-Clear NC 40 Industrial Coating dramatically improves scratch, corrosion, chemical & long-term UV resistance. Nano-Clear improves brand appearance and resale value. NC 40 Coating is a highly crosslinked polyurethane hybrid nanocoating. Designed to be applied as an overcoating directly over epoxy and polyurethane topcoatings.

Built for harsh environments where failure is not an option.
Extend Coating Life. Reduce Repaint Cycles by 2X - 3X.

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Oil & Gas Application

Nano-Clear NCI for Industrial Applications

The chemical storage tanks were first painted with a two-component white epoxy by International Paint, then Nano-Clear NCI was the spray applied using airless spray equipment. Grupo Fixum provides Ferrosur with a 10 year performance warranty on Nano-Clear NCI

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Military Application

Nano-Clear Coating for US Army

Nano-Clear provides excellent corrosion, chemical, abrasion and UV resistance. Nano-Cear also restores original color, gloss, surface hardness and UV resistance back into oxidized epoxy paints, oxidixed anodized aluminum, painted aluminum siding, fleet trucks, rail cars, tank cars and industrial equipment surfaces. Nano-Clear is a one-component crosslinked polyurethane hybrid nanocoating system - designed to be permanent. Nano-Clear is also designed to be extend surface life of new painted surfaces by 10 years. Nano-Clear for Industrial Applications reduce material, labor and energy costs.

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Nanotechnology

Built for harsh environments - where failure is not an option.

Nanotechnology gives us the ability to develop and alter materials at the molecular level. Manufacturing at the atomic level allows chemical engineers to alter the physical characteristics of parent material atom-by-atom to create entirely new substances. Companies are currently manufacturing revolutionary nano-based materials including carbon nanotubes, nano-polymers, nano-glass and nano-ceramic.

All products are produced from some type of raw material. These raw materials are composed of particles which are usually invisible to the naked eye. Conventional materials have particles with sizes varying from 100's of a micron (a millionth or 10-6 of a meter) to millimeters (a thousandth or 10-3 of a meter). A nanomaterial has a particle size of 1 to 100 nanometers, exhibiting unusual physical and electronic properties.

Benefits of Nanomaterials

Some benefits that nanomaterials can bring exceptional lightness, strength, hardness, durability, wear resistance, high chemical activity and even self-cleaning characteristics. Therefore, materials built from nano-sized particles generate tremendously useful properties for us to explore. Nanometer sized molecules of Nano-Clear penetrate into the smallest inclusions in painted metal, anodized aluminum, fiberglass, gelcoat... protecting them from harsh elements. Nanomaterials within Nano-Clear Coatings exhibit uncommon characteristics like superior scratch resistance, clarity, UV protection, hydrophobicity and adhesion.

Define a Nanocoating?

It is best to begin defining what a nanocoating is not. Adding nanoparticles to a coating or polymer system will typically improve some physical property including UV ray absorption, improved scratch resistance, anti-bacterial function, odor absorption, hydrophobic or hydrophilic properties... Nanoparticles act as a filler or additive in conventional coating systems. Nanoparticles do not form the polymer structure or change the overall physical properties of a coating system. The physical properties of a coating systems are inherent within the polymer itself. If the coating polymer is inferior, so is the coating system. Adding nanoparticles to an inferior coating polymer will only incrementally improve the system. The key to a superior coating system is a superior polymer system.

How is Nano-Clear different?

Nano-Clear Coatings are manufactured using proprietary 3D nanostructured polymers. These 3D nano-scale networks form the polymer backbone of all Nano-Clear Coating Systems. Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA) is utilzed to calculate the "crosslink density" of coating polymers. Nano-Clear Coatings provide extreme crosslink density as measured using DMTA, including remarkable surface hardness, chemical resistance, extreme UV resistance and high flexibility. Interestingly enough, Nano-Clear Coatings do not contain any nanoparticles like many marketed nanocoatings. Rather, all Nano-Clear Coatings rely on crosslink density to exceed automotive OEM and aerospace OEM technical specifications.