SIGMARINE™

Easy-to-apply coatings for economical maintenance

In current marine market conditions, fast and economical onboard maintenance plays an important role. Increasingly, ship operators have to maintain a vessel’s good image with limited crew and tight budgets.

Coatings facilitating easy and economical maintenance while sailing and also in, or alongside, dry dock can save valuable man hours. To answer this need, PPG has developed the SIGMARINE range of easy-to-apply and quick-drying coatings to help achieve the savings that customers demand.

Key characteristics

• Easy to use
• Cost-effective
• Quick drying
• Simplifies stock keeping

Another advantage of the SIGMARINE range is that only a limited number of coatings are used to cover many of the areas on a vessel. This means simplified stock keeping and ordering.

Paint lockers that contain too many different products are not only time consuming and difficult to keep clean and well organized, but can also lead to confusion. Limiting the number of different coatings helps the vessel’s crew become acquainted with the specific products, their surface preparation and handling requirements, leading to faster and improved application and therefore enhanced performance of the coating.

The products in the range offer economical coatings for a variety of vessels:

• SIGMARINE 24
  Modified zinc phosphate, alkyd primer for maintenance and newbuilding
• SIGMARINE 28
  One-component, quick-drying, high-build, multi-purpose maintenance primer
• SIGMARINE 42
  Clear varnish for interior and exterior use
• SIGMARINE 48
  GENERAL-PURPOSE GLOSS FINISH – COST-EFFECTIVE ABOVE-WATER PROTECTION
• SIGMARINE 49
  High-gloss alkyd finishing coat
• SIGMARINE 80
  Finishing coat based on an alkyd-modified petroleum resin for use in dry cargo holds