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SCICON worldwide bvba has extended experience & knowledge about the following applications:
Substrates:
- Steel
- Concrete, bricks, natural stones, masonry, ...
- Aluminium
- Stainless Steel
- Polymer substrates
The following applications are no strangers to us:
Steel
- Various forms of manual & mechanical surface preparation
- Various abrasive blast-cleaning operations (grit-blasting, shot-blasting, sandblasting, wet-blasting, slurry-blasting, sponge-blasting, CO2-blasting, ...)
- UHP-Waterjetting (with or without the addition of abrasives)
- Chemical surface preparation (degreasing, etching, phosphating)
- Galvanizing (ISO, ASTM, ...)
- Metalizing (Zn, Zn/Alu, Alu, ...) either Flame-Sprayed or Arc-Sprayed
- Tank linings (solvent-borne, solventless, epoxy, epoxy-novolac, vinyl ester, polyester, phenolics, zinc silicates, rubber linings, ... )
- Pipeline-coating (FBE, coaltar, 3LPE, 3LPP, tape-wraps, cement-lined, ...)
- Fire-resistant (intumescent) coatings (cementitious or polymer-based, both for cellulose- as well as hydrocarbon fire scenarios)
- Pneumatic spraying
- Airless-Spraying
- HVLP-Spraying
- Hot-Spray applications
- Electrostatic Spraying
- Fluidized-Bed applications
- Liquid coatings & Powder-coatings
- Cathodic Protection
- ...
- Concrete-renovation
- Concrete protection
- Cementitious repair-mortars
- Polymer-based repair-mortars
- Hydrophobic impregnation-coatings
- Sealants
- Façade-renovation
- Renovation of balconies & terraces
- Plaster of Paris
- Roofing-applications
- Injection-resins
- Secondary Containment
- ...
- Anodizing
- Chemical surface preparation (conversion layers, with chrome or chrome-free)
- Electrostatic powder-coating applications
- Liquid coatings (coil coatings, ...)
- ...
Stainless Steel
- Passivation of Stainless Steel
- Polishing of St
- ...
Polymers
- Surface preparation of PVC before coating (removal of static electricity, chemical activation, ...)
- Lacquering of PVC materials (e.g. windows & doors)
- ...
SCICON worldwide's inspectors have ample experience in the following industries:
- Chemical
- Petrochemical
- On-shore
- Off-shore
- Maritime industry
- General Construction and renovation
- Waste-Treatment
- Water-Treatment
- Food Industry
- Steel Industry
- Transportation
- Telecommunication
- Pulp & Paper
- Military
- Nuclear
- Renewable energy
- Pharmaceutical
- ...
The following coating products are almost daily business for our inspectors:
- Alkyd-coatings
- Acrylics
- Epoxies (solvent-based, solventless, waterborne, coaltar)
- Polyurethanes (single-pack, 2-pack, solventless)
- Polyureas
- Polysiloxanes
- Silicones
- Polyvinyls
- Zinc-Silicates & Zinc-ethyl-silicates
- Polyester
- Vinylester
- Glass-fibre reinforced coatings & linings (epoxy, polyester, vinyl ester, ...)
- Bitumen
- Phenolics
- Teflon-coatings
- Fluorolastomeren (PVDF-coatings, PTFE, ...)
- Chlorinated rubbers
- Thermoplastics (PE, PP, ...)
- Power coatings (Epoxy, Polyester, Super Durable PE, ...)
- Coil-Coatings (Epoxy, Polyester, PVDF, ...)
- Rubber-linings
- Cement-linings
- Galvanizing
- Metalizing
- Anti-fouling
- Anti-Grafitti coatings
- PMMA (floor coatings)
- FBE (Fusion Bonded Epoxy)
- Electrophoresis-coatings
- Ebonite
- Anodising
- ...
We inspect just as well both local and small projects up to some of the most prestigious international projects, all around the world!