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Advanced Coating Solutions distributes and supports DeltaTMarine thermal and Delta dB acoustical coatings for marine application in North America. Delta brand products from Mascoat in Houston, TX are time-tested and proven coatings used on over 250 vessels ranging from the recently retired aircraft carrier Constellation, the Coast Guard Ice Breaker Polar Star, to the Alaska ferry Kennicott. Mascoat does not manufacture one coating that fits all purposes. Each coating is designed specifically to individual applications, in this case marine thermal and acoustic insulation. Mascorp's believes in using the best quality materials for each application and providing solid value to customers' bottom line. In accomplishing this task, Mascorp provides a coatings for the marine environment with outstanding performance and durability.
Mascorp coatings are manufactured at their Houston, TX facility. They do not market or private label anyone else's product! They know each and every ingredient and why it is incorporated into their product, providing specific coatings for specific circumstances. Extensive quality control is maintained during the batch processing of coatings in accordance with Underwriters Quality Assurance Program and controlled via computerized tracking of production lot numbers. This helps maintain quality control for each and every gallon manufactured.
Do not confuse Delta brand products with other insulation coatings. Insulation coatings are relatively new to the market, beginning in 1990. Early insulation coatings were designed and produced by “backyard chemists” that stumbled on a “recipe” resulting in a reflective insulating material. The early products often combined white paint with sand/silica with initial application as rooftop coatings that were somewhat successful against heat. However, as they lacked the current generation's engineered particle structure design, they tended to stop working as their white reflective color became dirty.
As the industry grew, an assortment of companies “popped up” (and soon disappeared), touting their “insulation coatings” as the perfect end-all product to solve insulation problems. Their products were generally slight variations of rooftop coating re-marketed as industrial insulation solutions. Their design limitations led to many problems. One in particular was the coatings lack of tolerance for higher temperature applications (above 200 F and 100C) and resulting failure. The early, hyped marketing claims gave the ceramic insulation coatings a bad name in general.
Another important issue was and still remains is that the ceramic thermal coatings are difficult to effectively explain using standard technical or mathematical formats. From an engineer's point of view, even though the thermal coating performed, there were still open questions left as to how the coating worked, leaving a lot to speculation. Once again the industry suffered and the technology did not propagate as a result. When Mascoat was founded, they vowed to provide customers with complete answers as to how the coating worked, and just as important, to provide a professional basis for a customer's decision making process.
Mascoat Products is one of the few companies that thoroughly understands heat transfer and why their coatings work. They do their best to immerse themselves in a customer's specific application so they can provide specific information for turn-key application. Mascoat will not claim their coatings are designed for every insulation application. In fact, they tend to be very conservative to insure successful applications. Understanding their coatings' niche markets has been a major contribution to their success.
Mascoat's dealers, distributors and applicators are extremely knowledgeable about insulation and coatings in general, assisting in the developlopment of engineered solutions to accomplish a customer's goals. Sometimes, a single product won't provide the complete solution and Mascoat will help engineer the application for the best overall performance.
Mascoat has never claimed nor will claim that their product is the end all insulation method. However, with their technology, substantial application history, and extensive testing, they do offer the best thermal insulating coating on the market today. Ask a question about Mascoat insulation coatings and you will get a straight answer!