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Castagra’s products are quite unlike conventional epoxies, polyurethanes, and polyurea coatings, being VOC-free and BPA-free. Simply put Castagra’s are veggie plastics – based on vegetable oil and a common mineral called gypsum widely available in the US. Highly fire retardant as they give off water vapor when heated, the contents are renewable and recyclable and form a natural, incredibly durable protective layer without the use of toxic solvents.

The purity of Castagra’s Ecodur is such that it is certified for use in drinking water tanks.

With 20-year history of tough field use, they work, out competing conventional coatings in durability, cost and protection for a wider variety of tank contents. They also neatly address important concerns companies have about sustainability, worker safety and the environment.

Castagra is an oil and gas and wastewater industries protective coatings company that has products that defeat some of the harshest environments that the natural and unnatural world can throw at steel and concrete.

And, it does it naturally with renewable and recyclable products that are as simple as vegetable oil and common gypsum.

No emissions of nasty volatile organic compounds, no isocyanates, no petroleum chemicals, it is non toxic and cheaper, faster, better, sprayable and with a 20-plus year pedigree of field proven experience.

Now approved and used by three of the world’s leading oil and gas field services companies, this ‘plasticized gypsum’ is successfully addressing and giving longer life to all types of tanks and pipes, and steel and concrete structures.

While meeting the demands of the conventional tank storage industries with its Ecodur coatings, it is now actively co-operating to come up with new coatings to combat the corrosive effects of the new cocktails of chemicals the fracking industry is creating in the drive to release billions of gallons of trapped oil and trillions of cubic feet of shale gas.

Castagra is an American company headquartered in Reno, Nevada. It operates principally in Houston, Texas, where the bulk of the coatings are produced and developed.

However, its antecedent history includes coating the decks of C Class ferries in one of the biggest passenger ferry fleets in the world, where, more than 20 years ago, the veggie plastic coatings quickly proved they were considerably more effective than epoxies for the harsh marine environment of salt, sun and moving metal.

With so much water having passed under the bridge so to speak, Castagra’s are truly field proven Ecodur with its extraordinarily high official fire rating and ANSI/NSF 61 potable water certification, is truly fit for purpose and certainly to the point where it is being actively requested by household name companies for use around the world for the toughest jobs.

There is not a coating on this planet that does it all for the demands of the oil and gas industries.

What Castagra can be likened to is nature providing the raw materials to be combined to best fight the harsh conditions that the natural world – weather, sun, rain, ice – can throw at steel and concrete, and the truly extra nasty ones that result from industry’s tools of the trade – acids, alkalis, VOCs, inorganic compounds and mechanically induced movement, abrasion etc.

Those ingredients are renewable castor oil and cheap and abundant gypsum that occurs in many places in the US and the rest of the world for that matter. The resultant coating sticks to steel and concrete between 98 – 100% and 100% to wood type materials as it actually combines at a molecular level with cellulosic material.

It’s this simplicity, retained flexibility and inertness that is proving to be a great strength.

Ecodur has shown no detectable deterioration in sea water after 20 years and the frack coatings have double the life expectancy where failure can be measured in mere months for conventional coatings which have been know to fail in weeks with particularly aggressive chemicals.

Castagra is an oil and gas and wastewater industries protective coatings company that has products that defeat some of the harshest environments that the natural and unnatural world can throw at steel and concrete.

And, it does it naturally with renewable and recyclable products that are as simple as vegetable oil and common gypsum.

No emissions of nasty volatile organic compounds, no isocyanates, no petroleum chemicals, it is non toxic and cheaper, faster, better, sprayable and with a 20-plus year pedigree of field proven experience.

Now approved and used by three of the world’s leading oil and gas field services companies, this ‘plasticized gypsum’ is successfully addressing and giving longer life to all types of tanks and pipes, and steel and concrete structures.

While meeting the demands of the conventional tank storage industries with its Ecodur coatings, it is now actively co-operating to come up with new coatings to combat the corrosive effects of the new cocktails of chemicals the fracking industry is creating in the drive to release billions of gallons of trapped oil and trillions of cubic feet of shale gas.

Castagra is an American company headquartered in Reno, Nevada. It operates principally in Houston, Texas, where the bulk of the coatings are produced and developed.

However, its antecedent history includes coating the decks of C Class ferries in one of the biggest passenger ferry fleets in the world, where, more than 20 years ago, the veggie plastic coatings quickly proved they were considerably more effective than epoxies for the harsh marine environment of salt, sun and moving metal.

With so much water having passed under the bridge so to speak, Castagra’s are truly field proven Ecodur with its extraordinarily high official fire rating and ANSI/NSF 61 potable water certification, is truly fit for purpose and certainly to the point where it is being actively requested by household name companies for use around the world for the toughest jobs.

There is not a coating on this planet that does it all for the demands of the oil and gas industries.

What Castagra can be likened to is nature providing the raw materials to be combined to best fight the harsh conditions that the natural world – weather, sun, rain, ice – can throw at steel and concrete, and the truly extra nasty ones that result from industry’s tools of the trade – acids, alkalis, VOCs, inorganic compounds and mechanically induced movement, abrasion etc.

Those ingredients are renewable castor oil and cheap and abundant gypsum that occurs in many places in the US and the rest of the world for that matter. The resultant coating sticks to steel and concrete between 98 – 100% and 100% to wood type materials as it actually combines at a molecular level with cellulosic material.

It’s this simplicity, retained flexibility and inertness that is proving to be a great strength.

Ecodur has shown no detectable deterioration in sea water after 20 years and the frack coatings have double the life expectancy where failure can be measured in mere months for conventional coatings which have been know to fail in weeks with particularly aggressive chemicals.

Value Proposition

* Meeting the harshest demands for toughness, longevity, integrity
* Meeting the demands of sustainability and ‘green’ product policies
* Meeting the demands of health, safety and protection for workers
* Meeting the demands of the fracking industry for ‘unique’ usage
* Ease of applicability with purpose-built spray technology
* Ease in how workers can be trained to handle and apply

FracShield and Ecodur 201 Protective Coatings

Castagra’s foundation product is Ecodur 201 with its 20-year history of proven field use, but with the rapid emergence of a radically more sophisticated fracking industry, has come Castagra’s FracShield protection coatings.

They’re meeting the demands for protection against some of the toughest chemical enemies of steel that are being used in a bid to wrest the incredible fuel wealth that lies trapped still in old wells and the vast beds of shale rock.

Now approved for field use by the top three oil field services companies in the world, FracShield is providing unprecedented protection for mobile and stationary frac tanks that impacts directly on the bottom line of these companies.

Frac tanks have, up until now, had no lasting anti-corrosion coating solution that would also stand up to the rigors of mechanical stress during transportation as well as to the harshest chemicals. Many tanks have been failing within months of being conventionally coated. This has posed potential environmental hazards.

Now Castagra’s ‘natural’ veggie plastic coatings, containing non-toxic, solvent-free, VOC-free, BPA-free, contents, are also meeting the sustainability and environmental requirements of these companies that are pouring millions of dollars into the making the industry as safe and benign to the environment as possible.

They also have the added benefits of superior, extreme cold weather application ability, as well superior ‘stickability’, and elasticity when compared to conventional coatings that often quickly fail without being noticed because of stress-induced micro cracking that allows chemicals and atmospheric pollution to do their damage unseen until it’s too late to remedy.

Between Ecodur and FracShield, you have all the protection you need to protect oil and gas facilities from pipe, pump to inside and outside the largest tanks, as well as concrete and wooden structures.

Key Benefits Include:

Cold weather application Major E&P company, North Dakota Tank)
Lower cost
Higher durability (Oklahoma tanks)
Faster application speed (increased throughput)
Decrease or eliminate downtime
Increased safety (Flashpoint comparison)
Non toxic (VOC-free and BPA-free)
Infinitely repairable because they ‘autobond’ to previous coats (Ecodur Manual Tank Coating and Touch Up Kits)

Typical applications include:

• Industrial Flooring (Kern)
• Tank OEMs: Coating new oil storage tanks and frac tanks (Apache, Paint booth bottleneck, Facility Expansion, Steel Tank Fabricator, Baker Tank).
• Refurbishing old oil storage tanks and frac tanks. (EOG Resources, Legacy Tank, Encana/Cameron, Pemex)
• Reservoir coatings
• Secondary Containment (XTO, tank farm).
• Ship deck coatings
• Railcar coatings
• Riveted tank coating and lining
• Structural rehabilitation for water and wastewater.
• Certification NSF-61 for water tanks (Pittsburg Tank).
• Pond linings.

For more information, don’t hesitate to contact us at info@castagra.com or 1 (888) 388-2935 (Toll Free US/Canada)

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Spray Technology: Global Approval and Use.

The ‘Holy Grail’ of industrial coating protection has been a trinity of sprayability, longevity and the absence of toxic vapors emitted by solvents and resins.

To put it bluntly, solvent disposal is a major, global problem. Not only is it an exposure issue for operators, it’s also a huge expense to get rid of it.

Solvent disposal is now a multi billion dollar industry with environmental agencies switching focus heavily to prevention policies with regulations around solvent use increasing dramatically and forcing up costs all around.

Castagra’s coatings for the oil and gas industries do not use Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) either in content, application, or clean up of the company’s unique spray equipment. They are also BPA-free.

These ‘biosafe’, Class A fire retardant, highly durable, protective, natural plastic coatings can be sprayed easily, even on vertical surfaces, without any risk to applicators wearing basic eye and nose protection.

Castagra’s patent pending solvent-free spray system mixes the components right near the tip of the spray gun in a novel way that only requires a simple metal router to clean the nozzle when spraying pauses or is ended.

The system and method works so well that much higher percentages of gypsum can be successfully sprayed or dispensed through mould filling wands and nozzles.

Importantly, there is no need to closely match viscosities or pressures as in other systems. Similarly, the ratios of the plural component parts A,B, etc. do not need to be matched to the standard 1:1, 1.5:1, 2:1, 3:1 or maximum 4:1 ratios used in current competing equipment offerings. This means Castagra can maximize the coatings efficacy by spraying it in accordance with its best formulation.

The design also allows for very fast cure rates in a matter of a few seconds, which leads to greater profits for applicators and less operational downtime for customers.
The equipment is compact, easy to use, and can apply protective coatings, fill moulds, make panels and complete an assortment of other tasks with relative ease compared to traditional solvent purge systems.

This is an important development that will ultimately enable broader usage of Castagra’s products in other field and factory applications.

Castagra’s oil and gas industry coating technology has a 20-year antecedent pedigree, including an ANSI/NSF 61 rating for potable water container use, and a proven ability to outlast conventional coatings by a wide margin.

They are also approved by the biggest oil services companies in the world, and, most specifically, for the burgeoning frac tank market where ‘cocktails’ of fracking chemicals have produced new challenges to protecting steel.

Conventional epoxies have been failing in frac use, particularly with some of the more exotic solvents and acids such as formic. Castagra will continue to develop additional coatings as the industry seeks additional protection for other tank contents in fracking.