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Vasiliev, this happens when a customer or a contrac-
tor neglects, for reasons of economy, the surface prep-
aration, opting for cheaper paints and ending up with
poor-quality protective coatings.
“To avoid this, we have set up our technical sup-
port department. Its team have expertise to advise
customers on optimal protection solutions and to
provide the on-site painting training and supervi-
sion.”

New solutions

Yuri Buziner, Anticorrosion Protective Coatings
SPB Assistant Director for Development:
“Over the past year, our products have been used
on bridges, ships, tanks, industrial metal structures,
radioactives storage sites, cell towers, hydraulic struc-
tures, special-purpose equipment, sporting facilities,
health facilities and more.”
The Russia sanctions had posed the need for the
domestic paintwork industry to urgently redesign its
recipes. In the absence of the European resins, addi-
tives and agents, the desired quality seems to be dif-
ficult to achieve. However, as we were told by Yuri
Bouziner, his company is coping well:
“The supply channels and the recipes have been
restored. Earlier this year we’ve put into produc-
tion a number of new products – oven-baked enamel
ECOMAST 184; oilfield pipeline inner surface treat-
ment system ECOMAST E 250B; Petromast 511 ex-
tra insulation coating for electric motor sheet steel;
ECOMAST E 230 Shopprimer, which is intended for
in-process protection of steel sheets and structures; ucts have proved highly performing counterparts for
friction joints anticorrosion protection ECOMAST use on ships and oil and gas facilities in the Arctic cli-
204; and ECOMAST E 500 anticorrosion protection mate. They continue to be used on tugs, tankers, sein-
for underwater parts of icebreakers, ice-going vessels ers, hovercraft, trawlers, cargo ships, oil and ore car-
and hydraulic structures. A few more products are riers, floating cranes, pontoons, bulk carriers, ferries,
scheduled to appear on the market by the end of the smaller boats, rescue vessels, diving support ships, oil
year.” and gas pipelines and terminals. Artem Kholin:
“As dealers, we supply the paintwork and provide
Russian counterparts the painting services to ships and facilities across Rus-
sia – in St. Petersburg, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Vladi-
Anticorrosion Protective Coatings SPB’s autho- vostok, Nakhodka, Astrakhan, Kaliningrad, Novo-
rized dealer is TK Dvina. Artem Kholin, TK Dvina rossiysk, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Yakutsk, Novy
Director General: Urengoy, and other places. ECOMAST marine coat-
“We can safely say today that ECOMAST paints ings are supplied also to ships operating in the Arctic
and varnishes have proved a worthy alternative to basin. Some of our products are used by Turkish ship-
their counterparts made abroad. After the Western yards. We are partnered by Arkhangelsk Trawl Fleet,
companies withdrew from Russia, the local custom- Northern Shipping Company, Sevnor Management,
ers began to look for a replacement to discover only SK Refrybflot, Severny Project, to name a few of our
a small bunch of products of the quality compara- customers, which include also government-owned
ble with that of European brands. In an industry as companies – Rosmorport, Marine Rescue Service,
knowledge-intensive and technologically complex as Rosmorrechflot, Rosatom, SevRAO. ECOMAST coat-
chemistry, any development of a safe, user-friendly ings have been used on offshore terminals operated
material or coating is always a complex process that by Rosneft and other companies. I think our great-
requires serious investment and competency. In this est recent achievement is our customers’ awareness
sense, Anticorrosion Protective Coatings SPB is one that the top-quality coatings – those that can replace
of those few companies that have demonstrated high their foreign counterparts – are now available from
professionalism in dealing with this challenge – by the domestic manufactures. The current situation of-
improving and promoting the advanced technologies fers the Russian producers a window of opportunity
available on the anti-corrosion market.” to occupy a vacant niche, promote themselves as qual-
Having occupied its niche on the market driven ity manufacturers, increase competency and output,
by the import substitution policy, ECOMAST prod- and contribute to the economy.”

With a product line of more than 200 items, The ECOMAST brand is represented by its au-
Anticorrosion Protective Coatings SPB has es- thorized dealer TK Dvina. Alongside with supply- SOZVEZDYE #42
tablished itself as a recognized manufacturer of ing function, TK Dvina performs and supervises
industrial and marine coatings, fire retardants, painting works at ship yards and on facilities used
waterproofing, and polymer-based flooring. The in ports and petroleum sector. Its team have used производство
company owns registered trademarks ECOMAST the ECOMAST protective coatings on oil tanks, industry
and ARBECOAT. Its products have gained wide bridges, storage terminals, floating docks, marine
use in civil engineering, infrastructure develop- and river vessels.
ment, road construction, shipbuilding, ship re-
pair, oil and gas industry, water industry, bridge
construction, mechanical engineering, power en-
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