CORROSION PROTECTION 101: Coat surfaces with polyurea to stop corrosion before it starts. 

Corrosion. It’s the bane of countless and diverse industries. Left unchecked, corrosion can reduce equipment performance and efficiency, impair product and equipment integrity, weaken load-bearing structures, and potentially jeopardize operator safety. Corrosive agents can dissolve metals, pit concrete, erode piping, oxidize surfaces, and create electro-magnetic reactions (galvanic) that lead to even greater degrees of corrosion—and damage. Even factors like pressure, tension and stress can create opportunities for corrosion to form on expensive equipment.

Plus, there’s the exorbitant and ongoing maintenance costs required once corrosion gets a foothold.

The best way to fight corrosion is to prevent its formation in the first place. An anti-corrosive coating, applied to surfaces that are regularly exposed to moisture, abrasion, impacts, heat, salt, and chemicals, can reliably protect those surfaces against corrosion and its high costs and deleterious effects for years.

The key, however, is to apply the coating before your equipment and machinery are placed into service. And, of course, you need the right coating, too.

Enter polyurea from Ultimate Linings, an impermeable, anti-corrosive coating that’s spray-applied, cures in seconds, and provides superior protection when compared to paints, polyurethanes, and powder coatings. Polyurea really is the Ultimate solution for protecting equipment, vehicles, machinery, infrastructure and other assets against corrosion.

Polyurea is a compound created from combining synthetic resin and reactive isocyanate materials. Altering the chemistry of resins and isocyanates produces different formulations with varying characteristics, resulting in a durable, flexible compound that can prevent corrosion, resist wear and tear, shield against impact damage, and provide exceptional waterproofing qualities.

Because a polyurea coating dries in seconds, you can put your assets back into service fast, reducing downtime and boosting productivity. Polyurea is also formulated with no volatile organic compounds, so it provides an environmental competitive edge compared to traditional coating systems, like polyurethane and some paints.

Implementing preventive or corrective anti-corrosion maintenance is imperative to increasing the durability of corrosion-prone assets—and preventing corrosion in the first place. Coating your products, equipment and machinery with polyurea from Ultimate Linings is Corrosion Protection 101.