Task
Customer’s inquiry demanded regeneration and reconstituting of the inner surface of a storage tank to protect it from chemical abrasion. Determination of the job specification by the extraordinary environment included requirements concerning a wear resistant and chemically stable material.
Preparation
During the first inspection and to determine the special requirements of this order, case-specific data was retrieved and application products were selected. Loctite® resistance to wear coatings exhibit exactly the characteristics (due to their physical profile) necessary for executing the order. The next step was calculation of material costs and planning the time schedule including delivery times and job preparation phases. Furthermore, preliminary work for coating (surface preparation – blasting work) was arranged and necessary steps initiated. Finally, all necessary steps during the coating process and work execution by a coating specialist were determined.
Contractor
Henkel KGaA, founded in 1876, operates in three strategic areas of competence - Home Care, Personal Care, and Adhesives, Sealants and Surface Treatment. These strategic business areas are organized into four globally operating business sectors within Henkel: Laundry & Home Care, Cosmetics/Toiletries, Consumer & Craftsmen Adhesives, and Henkel Technologies. Henkel has a staff of 50.000 employees world-wide and posted sales of 12 billion euros in 2005. Through its Adhesives business sector, Henkel develops, produces and markets adhesives for use in the household and office, as well as for craftsmen. As the world leader in adhesives, Henkel supplies more than 3,000 different adhesives and sealants with brands such as Pritt, Pattex, Duck, Loctite, Ceresit und Dufix. The broad spectrum of products manufactured by Henkel Technologies primarily consists of adhesives and sealants as well as products designed for surface treatment by Henkel’s industrial customers. It offers the broadest line of acrylics, anaerobics, cyanoacrylates, epoxies, hot melts, silicones, urethanes and UV/light curing adhesives. In the industrial maintenance, repair and overhaul sector, Henkel’s portfolio includes epoxy-resin-based adhesives by Loctite®. These products yield cost-effective solutions for the repair and protec-tion of wear-susceptible equipment in the mining, water treatment and power generation industries. Loctite® products are also used in markets such as electronics, automotive, aerospace, and machine building. The product range includes solutions for industrial production and maintenance. Supplementary Loctite® product lines include lubricants, mould release agents, cleaners and other speciality products useful for making bonded joints. A complete line of standard equipment includes both automated and manual dispensing and curing systems; custom equipment can be designed, built and integrated to meet specific processing needs.
Internet
http://www.loctite.de
