AQUATERRAS Receives Seatrade Maritime Award for Marine Technology
We’re pleased to share the news that Nippon Paint Marine’s biocide-free, self-polishing coating AQUATERRAS won the Marine Technology Award at last week’s Seatrade Maritime Awards in Shanghai. The Seatrade Maritime Awards honours shipping organisations going above and beyond to drive industry progress, raising the benchmark for excellence with their exceptional work. With fourteen categories, the […]
Nippon Paint Marine Expands into Vietnam as Country’s Shipbuilding and Repair Sector Looks Set for Significant Growth
10 May 2023: Nippon Paint Marine is expanding its coatings production to Vietnam, in response to the growing market demand for its marine coatings, following Vietnamese government investment in the country’s shipbuilding sector. Vietnam’s maritime industry has been declared a priority sector by the Vietnamese Government and is on track to become one of the […]
Technology Showcase Success Results In Run of Orders For Nippon Paint Marine
Nippon Paint Marine’s innovative approach to marine coatings technology was the primary focus of this year’s Korea Showcase 2022, with a number of delegates praising the company’s range of antifouling and anticorrosion systems in meeting the shipping industry’s environmental and energy savings objectives. The event, a technology day established ten years ago to share the […]
Polaris Shipping Trio Opts for Nippon Paint Marine Hull and Hold Coatings
Polaris Shipping, one of South Korea’s largest bulk carrier operators, has specified Nippon Paint Marine hull and hold coatings for a trio of Very Large Ore Carriers (VLOC). Two of the 250,000dwt vessels – Stellar Young and Stellar Way – were applied with the company’s NEOGUARD® and FASTAR® coatings in July at Keppel Subic Shipyard, […]
Nippon Paint Marine Reduces Routine Maintenance for Starnes
The Nippon Paint Marine NEOGUARD anti-corrosive coating applied to the cargo holds of the 40,000dwt bulker Starnes has been a key factor in ship manager HJH Shipmanagement GmbH being able to extend cargo hold maintenance. Starnes, delivered from the Chengxi Shipyard in 2020, was delivered with a full range of Nippon Paint Marine protective coating […]
Nippon Paint Marine Introduces New PSPC-Compliant Universal Primer for Newbuilds
Global coatings pioneer Nippon Paint Marine has added a new anti-corrosive universal primer to its E-Marine range of paints. E-Marine 2000 is the Japan-headquartered company’s first general-purpose epoxy primer manufactured in China for the Chinese newbuilding market. While the universal primer is suitable for application to all areas of a newbuild ship, such as the […]
FASTAR is the Coating of Choice for JOSCO’s Next Generation 1100TEU Liners
Nippon Paint Marine’s ground-breaking nano-based antifouling FASTAR I® has been selected for the trio of energy-efficient box ships the Tsuneishi Group is building for China’s Jiangsu Ocean Shipping Co (JOSCO). The first 1091TEU ship in the series, Hull No SS297, is nearing completion at the shipbuilder’s facility in Zhoushan City, Zhejiang Province, China, and scheduled […]
Evergreen Opts for Nippon Paint Marine Systems for World’s Largest Containerships
The world’s largest containership by TEU-carrying capacity has floated out with Nippon Paint Marine antifouling and anti-corrosion systems protecting the vessel’s 400m long hull.
Meeting Emissions Abatement Targets
Experts from Nippon Paint Marine detail how a well-polished hull can help the shipping industry meet emissions abatement targets
Underpinning Developments in Antifouling
Hydrogel, a term first coined in 1894 but a technology not developed until the 1960s, is arguably one of the world’s most underrated technological advancements of the past 50 years. The technology underpins countless biomedical breakthroughs and is a fundamental component in the development of new solutions ranging from contact lenses, breast implants, and hair […]
