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What do the following have in common?

- The world’s longest metal staircase
- The world’s first retractable stadium roof
- One of the world’s tallest canal lift locks
- One of North America’s original supertanker terminals

Pedro Escudero explains on The Red Bucket. Listen now:

The Red Bucket – Episode 27. Landmark projects in Canada (Feat. Pedro Escudero) Three mysterious binders once forgotten in a Carboline headquarters closet are opened for the first time in decades. In this episode of The Red Bucket, Toby and guest Pedro Escudero explore a small sample of their contents: four past projects involving high-profile locations across Canada. And, Pedr...

Railcar exterior protective only perform when service environments align with performance expectations.

Choosing the right coating is not about chasing perfection but rather understanding how your fleet operates and preserving the asset over time.

The quick win of a low sticker price is always dwarfed by the long-term savings that comes with a little long-term thinking.

Learn more here: https://www.carboline.com/solution-spot/posts/how-to-choose-the-right-railcar-coating/

Shore D hardness has no influence on intumescent coating performance.

None. At all.

Why do so many specs require that materials meet or exceed Shore D hardness figures. Why is that figure typically 70? Where did all this come from?

If anyone would know, it’s Michael Hollman. And it boils down to this:

- Industry uses hardness to know when a coating is fully cured
- The Shore D hardness was historically a popular fitness-for-service assessment for hard epoxies on oil & gas infrastructure
- Copy-pasting Shore D to intumescent specs is like comparing apples to oranges
- The result: potentially excluding good options rather than weeding out bad ones

In this episode of The Red Bucket, Michael explores the history and misuse of hardness measurements for intumescent coatings, and shares his idea for a course correction.

Listen here:

The Red Bucket – Episode 26. The problem with using Shore D hardness for intumescent coatings (Feat. Michael Hollman) An intumescent coating can be qualified or disqualified for use simply because it falls above or below a certain magical hardness level, usually as measured on the Shore D scale. But hardness has no influence on performance, and the Shore D scale just doesn’t make sense when assessing softer intum...