Protect Your Marine Vessels with the Best Antifouling Paint on the Market
Are you looking for a reliable, long-lasting antifouling paint for your marine vessels? If so, look no further than Phoenix Protective & Marine Coating Specialists. Over the years, we have built a reputation for ourselves in Cairns as one of the area’s leading providers of marine-grade paint and coating services. From boats to semi-subs to water tanks, we can deliver some of the best marine finishes on the market for virtually any type of structure or surface.
The Importance of Antifouling Paint
Why are our industrial painters repeatedly called upon to apply antifouling paint coatings to marine vessels? Here are a few reasons this type of coating is so important not just for boaters, but also for other underwater structures or surfaces such as pipes or tanks:
- Antifouling prevents biofouling. Biological fouling, or biofouling, is the term for what happens when marine organisms—ranging from microorganisms to plants to algae and mussels or barnacles—attach themselves to the hull of a boat or some other underwater surface. Biofouling can cause damage to boat hulls or propulsion systems, to marine instruments and equipment, to underwater cables or pipes and other surfaces or systems.
- Biofouling can slow down marine vessels. In the case of an aquatic vessel, biofouling is a problem in part because of how it adds a significant amount of weight to the vessel. In addition to the added volume, a boat or marine vessel will experience more hydrodynamic friction than it would with a clean, aerodynamic hull. In turn, this problem causes drag on the vessel as it moves through the water, rendering it slower and more sluggish. Estimates point to biofouling reducing a vessel’s speed by ten percent. The extra weight and reduced speed also cause problems for fuel efficiency, leading to additional costs and environmental consequences. In essence, biofouling on marine vessels leads to a long, expensive and damaging domino effect with far-reaching implications.
- Biofouling impairs performance of marine instruments. Marine instruments, such as those intended to measure water quality, can be damaged or destroyed by biofouling over time. Not only can this damage affect the accuracy of measurements and overall lifespan of the instruments, but it also means shorter deployment times, more field trips for scientific teams, more money spent on replacement equipment, lapses in data collection and other issues.
Related Services We Provide to Antifouling Paint
While we are proud to work with boat owners and commercial marine operations to help take care of their vessels, our capabilities also go significantly beyond boats and the marine industry. Here are some of the other services that we count among our skill areas:
- Anti-corrosion coatings. We are regularly contracted to apply anti-corrosion paint not just to marine vessels and structures, but also to structural steel for buildings, equipment for mining operations, heavy machinery on construction sites, pipelines and more.
- Abrasive blasting. Our abrasive blasting services are available for structural steel and machinery. These services are useful for removing paint, rust and mill scale, eradicating old protective coatings to make way for new ones, smoothing out surfaces and more. Our abrasive blasting capabilities can be applied to most surfaces, including aluminium, steel, fibreglass, Ferro cement and timber.
- Two-pack painting. A two-pack paint is a highly durable and long-lasting epoxy paint for steel, concrete and other surfaces. The toughness of these paints has been proven on a global scale. They provide numerous desirable properties for a surface, including protection against moisture, rust, chemicals, acids, solvents and more.
From machinery painting to coats for bridges, wharves and buildings, our protective paint varieties and our experience in applying them make us a trusted partner for a wide range of projects.
What Sets Phoenix Apart Regarding Protective Paint?
Why should you trust Phoenix with your protective painting needs? Here are a few of our differentiators as a business:
- Our experience. We have more than 40 years of experience in the protective painting and coating market and have worked with clients spanning many different industries and needs. Our skilled tradespeople are trusted to deliver surface preparation, restoration or treatment services in industrial, marine and mobile capacities.
- Our commitment to safety and quality control. Across the board, we are dedicated to safety and quality control as the guiding principles of our business. In the area of safety, have no workplace health and safety incidents on our record, carry $20 million in liability insurance protection, have gone through an Injury Prevention & Management Program with WHS QLD and require our inspectors to obtain NACE qualifications. In the category of quality control, we hold a third-party accreditation from the Painting Contractor Certification Program (PCCP) that sets high standards for the application of protective coatings. We also use only the finest quality paints that money can buy, to ensure that our customers get the best results possible.
- Our skill with coating removal and application. Applying a new protective coating often means removing an old one. We can handle both steps of the process, to ensure a longer-lasting and more effective protective coating.
From machinery painting to coats for bridges, wharves and buildings, our protective paint varieties and our experience in applying them make us a trusted partner for a wide range of projects.