Pitt Char XP Flexibility

1. The flexibility allows the coating to relieve internal stresses generated during thermal cycling which prevents cracking and disbonding.

2. The coating can withstand the normal movement and/or vibrations found in steel support structures.

3. The high impact strength minimizes damage from physical contact occurring during construction or during normal operating conditions.

4. Pre-fabricated structures can be coated and transported to site without cracking or disbonding of the coating.

5. The resin system has excellent surface wetting characteristics to ensure good adhesion to the substrate.

6. The controlled cure rate allows ample time to install mesh and prevent inter-coat adhesion problems.

7. The flexible coating imparts less stress upon the primer during curing thus minimizing the potential for primer adhesion failure.

8. Pitt-Char XP A & B Components can withstand storage at elevated temperatures (pre-heating prior to application) at 60 C for 4 to 5 days without hardening. Problems of hardening in the spray equipment holding tanks and the feed lines has been eliminated unlike rigid epoxy intumescent coatings.

9. The pot life after mixing is extended thus minimizing curing of the material in the feed hose, mixer, and spray gun.

10. Pitt-Char XP Coating is very user friendly. It allows application under a wide range of weather and temperature conditions, without compromising the long term performance

Pitt-Char XP is based
on a patented, flexible
cross-linked epoxy resin.