Ecodur 201: Gaffney Water Plant Case Study (Heritage Water & SE Diving)

There are an estimated 14,748 publicly-owned treatment works in the US with a growing trend of reclaiming water for consumption. By 2010, California was already recycling about 650,000 acre-feet of water annually and the state aims to be doing a million ac-ft/yr by 2020 and two million by 2030. This case study concerns the Victor [...]

Found in: ECODUR , treatment plant coating , Water Plant Coating

Ecodur 201: Rejuvenating a 30,000 gallon above ground water tank.

Water storage is a major industry in the U.S. In 2014, it was valued at $2.45 billion and projected to be worth over $4 billion by 2020 as pressure grows on this resource resulting in more storage facilities being created. Typically, concrete is the most popular material for tanks, along with steel and polyethylene for [...]

Found in: above ground tank coating , drinking water tank coating

Plant-Based Ecodur Helps Major US Stadium Protect Floors

Public facilities at sports venues, including fast food areas, have some of the most heavily used floors in any commercial building and need high-performance coatings to help keep them looking good. The sheer physical foot pounding and activities such as eating by thousands of people, necessitate tough cleaning protocols that usually involve harsh cleaning products [...]

Found in: Stadium Floor Coating

Cannabis Owners Insist on Sustainable, High-Performance, Food-Grade Coatings Ahead of Incoming Regulations

Gloucester is a coastal city on Cape Ann, in Massachusetts, famous for its fishing heritage. This is reflected in the harbor-side Fisherman’s Memorial, with a statue and names of those lost at sea. Today, it is embracing the burgeoning cannabis industry with a large, new indoor growing facility that covers 38,000 square feet of concrete [...]

Found in: Cannabis Concrete Coating , Cannabis Floor Coating , Marijuana Floor Coating

Ecodur 201 Coating Revives Canal With Severely Cracked Shotcrete

The United States has 165 major canals of which 38 still carry transportation. Seventy-six are abandoned transportation canals and 51 others are for irrigation, drainage and industrial purposes. Adding in all the minor ones, and the grand total is 18,241.The Erie Canal, 363 miles (584 km) long, was the first canal in the United States [...]

Found in: Repairing shotcrete , Reparing canal

‘The Conventional Coatings Leviathan is in a Full Turn to Green,’ Says Coatings CEO, Peter Roosen

Phoenix, AZ – “With the green coatings market predicted to grow at nearly 6% a year through 2023, the whole industry is now in a full turn to green,” says Castagra Products, Inc. CEO Peter Roosen. “It is extraordinary. When we started with our green coatings nearly 25 years ago this leviathan of an industry [...]

“It’s better than everything we’ve tried”.. Stadium Manager is amazed with results.

There are said to be between 105 million and two billion parking spaces in the United States with a third of them are in parking lots, Parking garages are typically underused and represent many hundreds of billions of dollars worth of real estate ‘waiting’ to be developed into something else. For the ones in garages, [...]

Found in: Stadium parking line coating , Stadium sewer drain coating

“RESPECT DRIVES WORKER HEALTH PROTECTION,” SAYS COATINGS CEO.

Phoenix, AZ, September 12, 2018 – “You can have all the rules and regulations to protect worker health, but what really gets results is individual respect for human life, especially among management leaders,” stated Peter Roosen, CEO, Castagra Products Inc. “I was very pleased about OSHA’s tremendous contribution to sharply limiting exposure to substances such [...]

Found in: concrete surface preperation , silica solution

“US Paying a Heavy Price for Not Protecting Its Steel and Concrete Bridges when First Constructed,” Says Coating CEO.

Phoenix, AZ, September 4, 2018 – “The Romans were not only the greatest bridge builders of all time, they also got it right about maintenance, something we should consider here in the US,” commented Castagra Products, Inc. CEO Peter Roosen. “Today modern type bridges are running into serious trouble only decades after being built, something [...]

Found in: Bridge coating , Bridge Corrosion

Floor and Roof Coatings You Could Eat Off!

Phoenix, AZ – “In a quarter of a century we have gone from truly health-threatening industrial and commercial coatings loaded with Volatile Organic Compounds and other noxious content, to ones, such as ours, where VOCs are eliminated and the product is completely non-toxic,” said Peter Roosen, CEO, Castagra Products, Inc. “Our Ecodur is ANSI/NSF-61 certified [...]

Found in: roofing coating , VOC free floor coating