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Products
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Colours
Unlimited Color Selection
The Jotun Multicolor tinting system provides an unlimited choice of topcoat colors. These are available together with color-matched or custom-made colors. All helping you achieve a truly unique paint finish for your paint project. The Multicolor concept was successfully introduced around the world in 1974 and incorporates the most innovative and technologically advanced tinting solutions, providing the widest range of colors combined with the unparalleled Jotun quality.
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Support and material
Support
Technical Service statistics show that as much as 95% of all coating failures are a result of poor surface preparation, environmental conditions or application. Best practice routines and correct application are essential to achieve long-term performance.
Jotun offers technical service on major projects for all parties involved: owners, shipyard and applicators. Jotun is represented all over the world with more than 1000 coating advisors, and they all bring with them the same high standards of knowledge and education to our customers, located where Jotun is promoting and selling its products.
Jotun has dedicated YACHTING coatings advisors with extensive specialist knowledge and experience. All are qualified to FROSIO or NACE, with all having continuous specialist training, ensuring knowledge of application technologies, products and the use of the most advanced test equipment. Jotun technical team strives for excellence and aims to take the PAIN out of PAINT for our customers.
Jotun means unbeatable local support.
At Jotun, we are responding to this challenge by working together with you in person or through our network of dealers to ensure you get the right specification for your requirements, tailored preparation and application advice and if required, on-site support during your project. Our sales and technical service staff, including our coating advisors, are available to carefully analyze your requirements and design bespoke solutions to give you optimal results for your project. Customer support personnel will work closely with you all along the way, facilitating the communication across relevant teams so that your requirements are always met or exceeded. This way, we can guarantee for you a best-in-class coating system in terms of longevity, application properties and cost effectiveness.
Our Customer Service team takes pride in providing courteous and responsive support in the most professional manner. We listen to our customers. Our representatives will work with every department to ensure you receive the answers and results you need on time.
Jotun has a growing network of Yachting dealers covering the needs of the market and supporting customers. The dealers network is a key element for service, for support and supply of coatings to the growing Jotun superyacht fleet. -
Osmosis
Osmosis
Osmosis is recognized as the main enemy of fibre glass hull boats. Osmosis occurs as a result of water vapour and humidity transmission through the gelcoat layer, affecting the fibre glass lamination and its structural resistance.
Osmosis is the natural process of liquids to equal the differences in pressure between the humidity content of the hull and the sea water. The gelcoat is not a totally waterproof barrier, so humidity will penetrate through the gelcoat down to the fibre glass laminate.
Other factors that contribute to the development of osmosis, are water and moisture in the bilges. This moisture will also penetrate the laminate from inside, thus enabling osmosis to occur. The speed of the osmosis process and the damage it may cause is depending on several factors, such as production speed, glass fibre quality, water temperature etc. Osmosis is a potential problem for gelcoat hulls in the same way corrosion threaten steel and aluminium hulls. To prevent osmosis, it is important to apply a correct paint system as soon as possible.
How does osmosis occur?
Osmosis is the process where water is transported through a film, e.g gelcoat, from an area with high concentration of water to an area with low concentration of water in order to achieve equal water concentration in the two areas. These areas may be in the polyester binder itself (yellow area), in the glass fibre laminate (grey area) or between the glass fibre laminate and the gelcoat (red area). After some time, both sides of the gelcoat have an equal concentration of water, which will create blisters with an hydraulic pressure behind the gelcoat.
It is not always easy to detect osmosis in a hull. Only when blistering can be seen, it is easy to check if the hull has osmosis. If the blistering, blisters (usually of different sizes) contain a brown coloured liquid with a vinegar odour, it is reason to believe that the hull has osmosis and an osmosis treatment must be initiated. If blisters are dry and hard, they are the consequence of air or solvent retention during the painting works, which has no effect on the fibre glass.
If blisters are not visible, this does not mean that hull is osmosis free: as we seen in the ”Osmosis process” explanation, the process requires a certain time before blisters are likely to appear. Furthermore preventive treatments will not stop the osmotic process, so it is advisable to get the hull inspected by a professional who can confirm any osmosis status or potential. If so, a repair treatment should be initiated as soon as possible to avoid the progression of osmosis.
If a full osmosis treatment has to be carried out, the gelcoat must be removed completely, the hull must be left to dry and the Jotun Yachting Osmoshell system should be applied to the fibre glass before any primer or antifouling. The most important point is to replace the gelcoat with the correct thickness with epoxy products which are much more waterproof than gelcoat.
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JotunCare
The JotunCare lifecycle loyalty service has been designed with the superyacht at the heart of its purpose. At Jotun we pride ourselves on building lifelong loyal relationships through trust and reliability. Jotun’s dedicated Superyacht Fleet Support will stand beside you throughout the coating's lifecycle on board, from educating crew on care and maintenance to lifecycle performance inspections. Further supported through the JotunCare app.
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Learn more about joining the JotunCare fleet, contact jotuncare@jotun.com
For more info, visit our JotunCare campaign page
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