CMP launches coating for ballast tanks

CMP’s new solvent-free epoxy coating, BANNOH 5000, will be applied to the WBTs of three MR tankers to be built in Hyndai Mipo Dockyard from April 2020. This will be the first application of a solvent-free coating to a WBT in the world.

CMP R&D director, Hideyuki Tanaka, said, “This new generation coating will catalyse a paradigm shift, changing the conventional approaches of protective coatings in the marine newbuilding market. Throughout this success, CMP’s solvent-free epoxy will be standardised for ballast water tanks as well as for the general areas of ships to protect the global environment in the future.”

CMP has provided solvent-free epoxy coatings for the drinking water tanks of commercial ships for more than 20 years. However, solvent-free products require special equipment and the warming of the paints due to high viscosity in a cold temperature. Therefore, their use has been limited to specific areas due to difficulties of treatment.