ENNIS, TX – Polyguard Products, Inc. announced today the unveiling of a new higher temperature RD-6. RD-6 is a non-shielding, anti-corrosion coating that has been used on pipelines throughout the world for over 33 years. Launching RD-6 HT allows pipeline owners to apply this innovative product on pipelines that operate up to 190 degrees Fahrenheit (88 degrees Celsius).
“This innovation gives pipeline owners and their contractors more options when it comes to coating higher temperature pipelines,” Chic Hughes, Vice President of Pipeline Products for Polyguard, said. “In addition, this product has all of the physical features, including non-shielding properties, that RD-6 has provided for over three decades.”
RD-6 HT came about as asset owners communicated the desire to use RD-6 on pipelines that operate at temperatures higher than 145 degrees Fahrenheit. Polyguard’s Research and Development took on that challenge two years ago, and have recently completed third party testing that shows the product meets all the standards they are used to seeing with RD-6. The product has already been specified and successfully applied by midstream pipeline owners throughout the country and Canada.
RD-6 was originally developed by Polyguard’s Pipeline Division in the 1980s in response to the growing concerns related to the shielding of cathodic protection currents which serve as a secondary corrosion protection system on pipelines. Since that time, tens of thousands of miles of pipelines have been coated with RD-6 with no known issues.
Polyguard’s field technicians are available for training at no cost to the contractors or pipeline owners. Just email pipeline@polyguard.com to set up a training or demonstration.
For more information on this new innovation, please go to www.polyguard.com/pipeline.
Polyguard is a 100% employee-owned ESOP.
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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact our Pipeline Division at 281-580-5700 or email pipeline@polyguard.com.
Tre Bischof promoted to Assistant Manager – Pipeline Division
Polyguard is proud to announce the promotion of Tre Bischof to the Assistant Division Manager of Polyguard’s Pipeline
Division. The move takes him from Polyguard’s headquarters in Ennis, Texas where Tre served as Polyguard’s Marketing Director to the Pipeline Division Headquarters in Houston, Texas.
Over the last four years, Bischof has been essential in elevating Polyguard’s brand and its nine different divisions. The intricate knowledge he has gained is invaluable. According to Polyguard President, Shawn Eastham, “it was a win-win situation for both the company and Tre. From the first day Tre arrived at Polyguard I knew he was going to catapult to the highest levels of the company. His drive, focus and desire to make Polyguard a great place to work is what we’re all about.”
Having grown up in Lousiana, the move allows Tre to be closer to family and the Cajun cooking he enjoys so well.
His duties as Assistant Division Manager include overseeing the sales, training, strategic planning, and growth of the division. Tre will work hand in hand with veteran Division Manager Chic Hughes who has over 40 years experience in the Pipeline industry.
Tre came to Polyguard from the Ennis Daily News where he was the Publisher. After 6 years of overseeing the fast-paced duties of a newspaper editor, he was persuaded to bring his expertise to Polyguard.
Polyguard Records 25th Consecutive Year of Sales Growth
ENNIS, TX – Polyguard Products Inc. announced this week that 2017 marked its 25th consecutive year of top line sales growth for the company.
“This streak rivals any that I know in the business world,” President Shawn Eastham said. “This is a credit to our diversity, the quality of our manufacturing practices and, most importantly, the employee owners who take so much pride in the work they do every day.”
Polyguard’s streak began in 1992 and has withstood the financial ups and downs of the various markets Polyguard serves, including several nationwide recessions. The leadership in place at Polyguard credits this to several factors that make Polyguard a unique company, highlighted in the company tagline: Employee Owned. Innovation Based. Expect More.
“Employee owners, historically, take a greater sense of pride in what they do, more responsibility for the overall health of the company, and there’s a system of checks and balances that keeps everyone working for the good of the entire company,” CEO John Muncaster, who has been the head of the company since the mid-1980s.
As a result of these increased sales, Polyguard more than doubled its manufacturing capabilities by moving the majority of its manufacturing facility to Corsicana, Texas to keep up with demand.
Founded in 1953, Polyguard Products specializes in products which protect surfaces and structures from moisture, water, or other undesired substances. Polyguard is an industry leader in the production of self-adhesive protective coatings for engineering and construction.
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If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Tre Bischof at 214-515-5000 or email at Tbischof@polyguardproducts.com.
Polyguard Earns 1st Place in National Video Contest
“Expansion Against Headwings” | World Pipelines
16 March 2017 – “Expansion Against Headwings” | World Pipelines
Polyguard has purchased a new facility in the town of Corsicana, Texas that more than doubles the manufacturing capabilities.
The global oil and gas industry is currently experiencing leaner times due to depressed pricing. In spite of this challenging macro-economic environment, Polyguard Products Inc. has announced that at the end of its most recent fiscal year it has completed 24 years of unbroken sales expansion. This means since 1992 total sales have always exceeded the prior year’s sales. To accommodate this growth, Polyguard purchased a new facility in the town of Corsicana, Texas (close to the existing facilities in Ennis, Texas) that more than doubles the manufacturing capabilities. This facility will open in the middle of 2017 and represents a significant capital investment.
Polyguard Records 24th Consecutive Year of Sales Growth
ENNIS, TX – Polyguard Products Inc. announced that 2016 will mark its 24th consecutive year of top line sales growth for the company.
“Polyguard’s 24-year string of top line sales growth increases was certainly not a goal,” CEO John Muncaster said. “It started in 1992, and at that point Polyguard was just trying to survive the early 1990s recession and the fire which has destroyed our plant, lab, and offices two years before.”
“We don’t know of any firm who can match this 24-year string of consecutive sales growth. As to ‘why’, the answer is clear to us. Polyguard’s tagline is ‘innovation based…. employee owned…. expect more’. Our constant stream of innovative products, and our ‘above and beyond’ employee owners, are the reasons for the constant growth.”
Muncaster said Polyguard is looking forward to hitting a landmark by increasing sales yet again in 2017.
“A string of increases in sales growth may not have been a Polyguard goal in 1992, but it is a goal in 2017, because a 2017 increase will give us a full quarter century of consecutive sales growth.”
Founded in 1953, Polyguard Products specializes in products which protect surfaces and structures from moisture, water, or other undesired substances. Polyguard is an industry leader in the production of self-adhesive protective coatings for engineering and construction. [Read More…]
World Pipelines – Coatings & Corrosion 2015
World Pipelines – Coatings & Corrosion 2015 – Cathodic Disbondment or self-healing? Nathan Muncaster, Polyguard Products, USA, and Luc Perrad, Expartech, Belgium, discuss cathodic disbondment testing and its importance within the industry. By definition, cathodic disbondment is the loss of adhesion between a coating and its metal substrate, due to cathodic chemical reactions that take place in the interface of steel and coating. In cathodic protection system, current passing through the metal frees hydrogen gas and oxidative molecules like chlorine and hypochlorite-ions, causing coating disbondment. This current passes only through the metal exposed to the electrolyte where the coating is in default. The current flow amount depends on the size of the coating fault. If the size of the fault increases, the current increases, causing more cathodic disbondment. If there is no coating fault, then cathodic disbondment does not occur. [Read More…]
Polyguard Launches New Website
June 28, 2015 ENNIS, TX – Polyguard Products, Inc. CEO John Muncaster announced this week the launch of a new, redesigned website for the company.
The address for the site remains www.polyguardproducts.com and the new site provides a modern look along with a mobile‐friendly version that’s also user‐friendly.
“Polyguard has grown significantly in recent years and we felt we needed to upgrade our website in a manner that would reflect that growth,” Muncaster said. “This new site has a traditional look to it that we feel represents our company very well. The website platform also allows for continuous
improvement of its features.”
Polyguard’s website upgrade follows an upgrade of its Architectural Division website made in late 2014.
The most recent upgrade also includes a redesign of Polyguard’s Pipeline Division.
Features of the new site include product pages, with easy‐to‐find documents about each product on
those pages, a more powerful search feature, as well as links to Polyguard’s social media sites. In the
near future, Polyguard will upgrade its Mechanical Division, International Division, TERM Barrier Division
and Residential Division pages. [Read More]
May 2015 World Pipelines “Testing Coating Performance”
May 2015 – World Pipelines
TESTING COATING PERFORMANCE
Luc Perrad, Expartech and Polyguard Products representative in Brussels, Belgium, compares the performance of heat-shrinkable coatings and polymeric tape coatings according to ISO21809-3 and EN12068. The international standard ISO21809-3 (edited in December 2008) is largely used today as a reference for the major pipeline operators (oil, gas and water companies). The standard describes 9 filed joint coatings systems and includes the required performances for each system: 1) Bituminous, petrolatum, wax and polymeric tape coating. 2) Heat-shrinkable coatings 3) Fusion bond epoxy (FBE) powder coatings. 4) Liquid coatings. 5) Polyolefin-based coatings. 6) Thermal spray aluminum (TSA) coatings, 7) Hot applied microcrystalline wax coatings. 8) Elastomeric coatings. 9) Non-crystalline low viscosity polyolefin tapes. Even though polymeric based mesh coatings like Polyguard RD-6 have successfully been used since 1988 and are included in many reference standards like NACE standard SP)169-2009 (Control of External Corrosion on Underground or Submerged Metallic Piping Systems), they are not listed in ISO21809-3. [Read More…]
February 2015 – North American Oil & Gas Pipelines
February 2015 – North American Oil & Gas Pipelines
Corrosion Control Industry Faces Challenges to Protect Oil and Gas Infrastructure
Corrosion control specialists are charged with protecting and extending the lifecycle of critical infrastructure. For oil and gas pipelines, it’s a matter of protecting the public, as well as the environment. Corrosion is one of the leading causes of pipeline failures, but the right measures to protect these assets can ensure they operate safely, efficiently and profitably.
Protecting pipeline assets starts at the top, with the design of the system, according to Jim Feather, vice president of NACE International, the global corrosion trade organization. Recently retired from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering after a 36-year career, Feather says managing corrosion must be an organizational policy.
“I would briefly describe this as a system. Design it right, build it right and operate it right,” says Feather, who will be sworn in as NACE president at the association’s annual Corrosion conference, March 15-19, in Dallas. [Read More…]
