Advanced Polymer Coatings (APC) is increasing production after striking a new deal with British marine services provider James Fisher and Sons plc.

This new deal will see us supply our MarineLINE^® Coating System to a new LNG-MGO dual-fuel 6,000-dwt chemical tanker James Fisher is building at China Merchants Jinling Shipyard in Yangzhou.

This project will begin in June with completion by autumn. The coating application will be led by APC’s Shanghai-based China office, with an experienced inspection and heat cure team as well as the home office in Avon, OH.

He Liangxing, APC’s China manager, said, “APC is delighted to win this work with James Fisher and Sons plc. We have a good working relationship with the shipyard, having applied MarineLINE^® there before. We will apply MarineLINE^® to the ship’s cargo tanks and provide comprehensive application inspection and heat curing services.”

James Fisher said it expects to take delivery of the vessel in late 2022. The vessel is the first of two LNG-MGO dual-fueled chemical tankers the company is building at the China Merchants Jinling Shipyard.

APC Global Marine Manager, Captain Onur Yildirim, said China is a key market for APC.

“Over the last two decades, we have coated and repaired a vast range of different chemical tankers in shipyards across China,” he said. “We are very pleased to continue to work with a company of the pedigree of James Fisher and believe the quality of MarineLINE^® and its broad range of benefits helped us win the work.”