Frost & Sullivan honors Hempel’s HEMPADUR AvantGuard® for New Product Innovation Free

Hempel’s HEMPADUR AvantGuard® product range won the New Product Innovation Award at Frost & Sullivan’s 2015 European Growth, Innovation and Leadership Awards. The award was presented at a banquet at the Royal Garden Hotel in London on 14 May.

Each year Frost & Sullivan acknowledges industry leaders and innovators for their superlative achievements throughout the year. The awards encompass a range of industries, from information and communication technologies to chemicals and healthcare. This year, Hempel’s HEMPADUR AvantGuard® activated zinc primers took the New Product Innovation Award at the event.


The award recognises the products’ ability to provide superior anti-corrosive protection for steel structures in tough environments. According to Frost & Sullivan, this ensures the coatings can meet customer requirements for performance and reliability in harsh environments.

When presenting the award, Gary Jeffery, Partner, Director – UK Operations at Frost & Sullivan, said: “Hempel has developed a coating system that activates all of the zinc in the coating. As a result, the coating meets and often exceeds customer requirements for performance and reliability. This enables customers to improve both productivity and the durability of their assets.”

The award was collected by Hempel’s AvantGuard® team, which consisted of Pernille Lind Olsen, David Morton, Karsten Soerensen, Santiago Arias and Josep Palasi.

Pernille Lind Olsen, Group Protective Product Director, comments: “HEMPADUR AvantGuard® is a step-change in the development of zinc coatings. We have managed to significantly improve the anticorrosive performance and mechanical strength of the coatings. At the same time, we understand that productivity is important for customers, so we have created a coating that is easy to apply. We are extremely pleased that Frost & Sullivan have recognised this achievement.”

About HEMPADUR AvantGuard®
HEMPADUR AvantGuard® coatings use patented AvantGuard® technology to provide better anticorrosive protection than zinc epoxies without AvantGuard®. The coatings are developed to protect industrial structures and equipment in C4 and C5 corrosive conditions, where saltwater and high humidity corrode unprotected steel. They can be used in a range industries and applications, from offshore oil & gas platforms to power plants and wind turbines.

The increased protection and durability of HEMPADUR AvantGuard® coatings have been proven in extensive Hempel tests, including salt spray tests (ISO 12944 part 6), cyclic corrosion tests (ISO 20340 - NORSOK M-501 revision 6) and thermal cycling resistance tests (NACE cracking test and Hempel’s welding test).

The HEMPADUR AvantGuard® series was released worldwide on 23 September 2014.

For more information, please contact:
Zohra Ali Group Marketing Communications Manager (Protective),
Hempel A/S
Phone +44 125 4870051
e-mail: [email protected]

www.hempel.com/

About Hempel
Hempel is a world-leading coatings supplier for the decorative, protective, marine, container and yacht markets. From wind turbines and bridges to hospitals, ships, power stations and homes, our coatings protect man-made structures from the corrosive forces of nature.