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Jotun Group Report 2014

24 CUSTOMERS AND INNOVATION HPS: A breakout year In 2014, Jotun’s Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) concept was applied to more than 100 vessels, helping to strengthen Jotun’s reputation for innovation in the shipping industry. With work to develop an international standard for measurement of hull performance in progress, the company may soon change how the industry looks at marine coatings. Jotun’s Hull Performance Solutions (HPS) combines premium marine coatings, priority technical service and on-board monitoring tools to measure hull performance, providing an analytical basis for the company’s unique money-back guarantee that covers the entire period between drydockings. Jotun’s Hull Performance Solutions enables owners to reduce fuel costs and corresponding emissions, helping them manage increasingly strict environmental regulations. By improving hull and propeller performance, the world fleet can reduce fuel cost by as much as USD 30 billion per year and achieve an estimated 0.3 per cent reduction in manmade GHG emissions. Assessing the impact of marine coatings on fuel costs While HPS is built around Jotun’s next-generation antifouling technology (silyl methacryelate), the product innovation is only a part of the concept. Prior to the launch of HPS in 2011, owners were left to choose suppliers based on unproven claims and product guarantees that only applied for the periods immediately before and after drydockings. HPS was conceived in part to provide the industry with real time data on long-term hull performance. That data allows owners to make more informed decisions about marine coatings and ship operations, and helps them distinguish between competing coatings suppliers and quantify the impact of antifoulings on fuel usage. Over the past two years, Jotun has spearheaded efforts to establish an international standard for measuring hull performance. Jotun contributed to several submissions by the environmental organisation Bellona as a part of the Clean Shipping Coalition’s work with the IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC). Jotun and Bellona also co-hosted two stakeholder workshops and, based on the output from these workshops, submitted a New Work Item Proposal to ISO Technical Committee 8. The proposal was put to vote and accepted as a new ISO project in May 2013 (ISO 19030). Jotun was appointed by ISO to manage the project, which now involves more than 50 international experts representing all major stakeholders. The future of HPS While work on the ISO project is not expected to be finalised before June 2016, some major industry players have already embraced the HPS concept and the company has seen a growing demand for other Jotun marine coatings. At present, HPS has been applied to about 150 vessels and the company expects to add another 200 by the end of 2015. The company has also strengthened its project management teams, provided useful operational advice based on data collected on board, and has offered owners different business models to help them manage costs more effectively. HYDRODYNAMIC ADVANTAGE Jotun’s Hull Performance Solutions improve hull performance by reducing drag. On a typical ship, the difference between the guaranteed level of perfor-mance and market average performance amounts to a hydrodynamic efficiency gain of around 13.5 per cent. This not only helps lower bunkering costs, but reduces green house gas emissions by about 7.5 per cent below the market average over the lifetime of the solution.


Jotun Group Report 2014
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