Propspeed appoints commercial manager
Underwater foul-release coatings firm Propspeed has appointed a new Commercial Sales Manager along with its new partnership with Marine Protection Systems to promote its coatings and anodes.
Edo Smitz has been hired to look after Propspeed’s EMEA region, which Sales Director Matt Forbes says will benefit from Smitz’s brief to expand the firm’s commercial distribution network across Europe.
Propspeed exhibited its two-part coating system at Seawork on June 21-23 with a corrosion protection tank, which demonstrated the relationship and performance between various anodes and coatings. Marine Protection Systems makes the anodes and worked with Propspeed on the corrosion tank.
Propspeed claims its coating ‘greatly improves efficiencies, reducing fuel burn and operational cposts, while the insulative properties combined with correct anode solutions minimise the environmental ompact that corrosion and coating loss has on our oceans’.
An exceptionally strong chemical and mechanical bond between the metal substrate, etching primer and clear coat has been specially formulated to prevent marine growth from bonding to subsea metal surfaces without leaking into the water. The technology also electrically isolates the metals so that ions and gas exchanges are limited – therefore corrosion is massively reduced.
“I’m looking forward to educating commercial operators on all the benefits Propspeed’s foul-release coating has to offer,” said Smitz. “I will be attending key commercial shows and developing business partnerships across Europe.”
