AIRCOAT
  • About us
  • Project
  • Salvinia Effect
  • Antifouling
  • Drag reduction
  • Noise pollution
  • Resources
  • Events
AIRCOAT
  • About us
  • Project
  • Salvinia Effect
  • Antifouling
  • Drag reduction
  • Noise pollution
  • Resources
  • Events

PPG

Worlds largest coating supplier

Founded in 1883 as Pittsburgh Plate Glass by Captain John B. Ford and John Pitcairn in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Today, PPG is a global supplier of paints, coatings, optical products, and specialty materials.
Through leadership in innovation, sustainability and color, PPG helps customers in industrial, transportation, consumer products, and construction markets and aftermarkets to enhance more surfaces in more ways than does any other company.

ARJAN LUGTHART

Project Leader
Work Package Leader

Innovation is the key for next generation coatings

Has managed different R&D teams throughout the years, including Fouling Release and Antifouling teams. Currently R&D project leader.

CONSORTIUM PARTNERS

Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML and scientifically managed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(which pioneered the air-coating technology and demonstrated initial prototypes),
AIRCOAT brings together a total of ten partners from six European countries.

CONSORTIUM PARTNERS

Coordinated by the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML and scientifically managed by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (which pioneered the air-coating technology and demonstrated initial prototypes), AIRCOAT brings together a total of ten partners from six European countries.

cml
ppg_v2
fml_v5
abt
hsva
BIC
kit
AD_GRAPHICS_little
danaos
revolve
AIRCOAT-sescaled_cropped
flag-1

The AIRCOAT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°764553.

Navigate

  • About us
  • Project
    • Salvinia Effect
    • Antifouling
    • Drag reduction
    • Noise pollution
  • Resources
  • Events
  • Contact us

Follow us

Subscribe to our newsletter

Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from AIRCOAT.

Terms & conditions | Design by REVOLVE, This website is run on 100% renewable energy.