Coating manufacturers go to great lengths to formulate, test, and develop
improved coating materials which are capable of handling the ever increasing demands of
the industrial market place and are at the same time user-friendly. Product data sheets,
label instructions, and supplementary application guides are all part of a measured
program to ensure that coatings are properly applied, and that the end user is completely
satisfied with the long term performance of the coating system. This paper relates several
case history examples of how, despite good intentions by all of the involved parties,
things go wrong on industrial coating projects.
Keywords: Epoxy, Novolac, Stochiometry