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External coating for buried or immerged pipelines

Author: Thierry Kerzerho

Publication date: April 10, 2021, Review date: September 2, 2020

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3. Factory-applied pipe coatings

At present, the two most commonly used coating systems in industry are fusion bonded epoxy resin based coatings and 3 layer polyolefin , or 3LPO, coatings (polyethylene or polypropylene).

Figure 2 shows the distribution of the different types of coating according to geographical area. In North America, single layer fusion bonded epoxy coating, better known by the acronym FBE, accounts for 60% of production, compared with just 10% in Europe, chiefly...

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