As part of our series of articles on Zinga Cold Galvanizing paint, we would like to introduce the use of Zinga 96% Zinc at Heathrow Terminal 5’s London Underground Station. Zinga are able to offer a 20 year insurance backed warranty. This is of course, subject to correct preparation of…

Completed in 2012, the Thermal Power Station is one of the largest Energy from Waste facilities in the UK. TPS Runcorn has the capability to treat up to 810,000 tonnes per year of solid recovered fuel which is derived from household waste. This reaches the site by both road and rail.  At…

The most important stage of painting is the preparation. Carry out correct preparation before painting commences. Otherwise there is a likelihood that the paint coating will fail prematurely. You can significantly reduce the life and performance of any coating by the degree of previous preparation. Below, we will explore the…

Promain’s technical team recently made contact by HRI Munro Architecture. This was in regard to a war memorial restoration on the shore of Loch Ness.  After receiving a grant by the Centenary Memorials Restoration Fund, the architects were looking to restore the design on the memorial. They therefore enlisted the…

A residents association of a series of coastal apartments recently contacted Promain for advice on repairing their external rendered concrete walls. The walls had become damaged due to water ingress. The walls currently do not have a coating applied. They had a number of requirements from the new paint coating…

This narrowboat was one of the first five of this boat type to be coated. The unique Zinga cold galvanising cathodic-protection system was on both the interior and exterior surfaces of the steel hull shell. Introducing The Wild Cherry Narrowboat The Wild Cherry was originally coated in the Zinga system…

Promain provide a huge range of infrastructure intumescent railway approved products from global manufacturers such as Sika, Sherwin Williams and PPG. Recently, PPG have specified and applied intumescent coatings to Atocha Railway Station in Madrid. The Client ADIF (Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias) Location Madrid, Spain Challenge To provide long-lasting and…

Promain‘s colleagues at Sika were contacted by Southern Railway to provide a system specification. This was for for the renovation of their train inspection pit. There were a number of conditions the coating would need to allow for, especially requiring a safe anti slip paint surface for warehouse staff. Selhurst…

Promain‘s technical team were recently contacted by a specialist painting company, Coopers Painting Contractors. Based in Grimsby, the contractor Coopers Painting Contractors specialise in airless spraying to tanks, marine environments, and industrial paint projects. This includes the application of power station transformer paint. General Electric Company (GEC), had contracted Coopers…

Asbestos has historically been used in many types of building products until its use was made illegal on 24th November 1999. Despite this, there are still an estimated 1.5 million non-domestic properties containing asbestos. Inhaled asbestos contributes to around 3,000 deaths a year from asbestos related diseases – this is…