Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine has introduced rapid curing technology to significantly reduce the application time and labour costs for structural steel protection.

With comparable colour and gloss retention to a polyurethane topcoat, the Sherwin-Williams Envirolastic 2500 system can be applied as a single or multi-coat system, resulting in faster shop throughput when compared to a traditional two-pack coating system.

“The Envirolastic 2500 system combines the best properties of a two-coat or three-coat protection system for steelwork, while taking production throughput to the next level,” said Alex Sandilands, product manager at Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine.

Independently certified by ISO 12944:2018, Envirolastic 2500, available to customers in European markets, offers asset owners in the region long-lasting anti-corrosive protection for up to 25 years.

The polyaspartic direct-to-metal coating also features durable UV stability and low VOC content. This makes Envirolastic 2500 an ideal coating for use on a range of infrastructure projects, including stadia, bridges and highways, large manufacturing plants, port machinery equipment and commercial buildings.

In addition to the infrastructure sector, Envirolastic 2500 is suitable for a diverse range of applications in the mining and oil & gas industries, such as process vessels, storage tanks and biomass plants.