Freight Railcar Coatings and Linings
Keeping Your Coatings Process in Motion
Learn more about our solutions for railcar exteriors and interiors.
At Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine, we know coating a railcar involves more than just paint. We create value throughout your operations to help you realize lower total applied cost for coating railcars. Our dedicated team will help you:
- Improve Throughput: Linings that cure quicker, reducing out-of-service time
- Reduce Rework: Improved ease of application for faster completions and touch up reductions
- Lower Labor Costs: Enhanced efficiencies, from applications to inspections, to reduce labor needs and minimize overtime
- Curb Consumption: Direct-to-metal (DTM) exterior coatings and single-pass liners minimize material costs and inventory needs
VERSATILE PRODUCTS, PROVEN PERFORMANCE – INSIDE AND OUT
Your railcar coating needs are fully covered – inside and out – thanks to our complete, proven portfolio, our experienced team of technical service representatives, and our dedicated rail research and development lab.
Interior Linings:
A high solids, flexible coating, Dura-Plate® 7550 is designed to protect product purity across a broad range of cargos during loading, unloading, transport, and storage in rail cars and fixed site storage tanks.
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A two-component, ultra high-solids novolac amine epoxy, Nova-Plate UHS is engineered specifically for immersion service in ballast tanks, oil tanks, refined fuel storage tanks, and for well deck overheads.
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A two-component, flake-reinforced novolac tank liningwith return to service times in as little as 24 hours. It has excellent abrasion resistance and it incorporates Optical Activated Pigment (OAP) technology to improve the accuracy and productivity of holiday detection.
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Exterior Coatings:
ResuGrip™ 075 and ResuGrip™ 150 Nonskid Coatings
Created to promote safety on ladders, handrails, exterior roofs, and crow's nests, ResuGrip line of non-skid safety coatings helps rail car owners reduce risk while driving throughput application efficiencies for shops.
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Designed for application over properly prepared steel surfaces, CarClad Macropoxy 4200XL maintains a jet black appearance after extensive weathering.
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Designed for application to properly prepared steel surfaces in the rail industry, CarClad Macropoxy HS may be used as a one- or two-coat, direct-to-metal protective coating, or over a Macropoxy primer. It can be applied to marginally prepared surfaces.
An edge-retentive epoxy system, CarClad ER Epoxy dries very quickly allowing increased production for rail shops.
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