The Marc Alexander inspection specialists have an in-depth understanding of various subsea materials and SURF equipment inspection.  Our extensive experience covers subsea umbilicals, riser assemblies, goosenecks, PLETs, FLETs, subsea connectors, manifolds, choke / dog-house covers, flow-bends, subsea production trees (including mono, dual-bore and hybrids), porch structures and flowlines.

​

AIS 'ContraTherm® C25' and Associated Products for Subsea

 

We are proud to be training certified with ContraTherm® C25 syntactic silicone subsea thermal insulation.  Our extensive experience with ContraTherm® C25 ensures that the demands of your project are met with inspection excellence and fully accurate reporting. Every stage of your project is covered from an inspection and quality perspective including kick-off meetings, pre-qualification trials, pre-production testing, surveillance inspections and laboratory visits right through to final inspection acceptance, documentation review and sign-off. 

Insulation materials fall into many categories.  A competent inspector who is trained and qualified to industry standards will ensure that your insulation inspection assignments are in exceptionally good hands.​

​

Marc Alexander covers all inspection activities of the following insulation product groups:

 

• Acoustic insulation and Cryogenic insulation

• Rockwool technical thermal insulation

• AIS ContraTherm® C25 syntactic silicone

• AIS ContraTherm® C55 phenolic insulation

• Trelleborg Vikotherm® G3 material

• TechnipFMC Novolastic™ insulation material

• Pipeline insulation materials such as IMPP, HDPU, 3LPE, 3LPP, 5LPP and flame-spray polypropylene

 

We are readily available to discuss your insulation inspection requirements and more than happy to discuss your project in more detail. Please do get in touch.

The range of different application processes can affect the properties of your pipeline coatings.  Our pipeline inspection services will ensure that the project requirements of your specification are met with a quality driven approach and unparalleled documentation and reporting.  

 

Our product experience is extensive and includes FBE, Acothane, CMPP (Polyolefin), 3LPP, 3LPE, 5LPP, FSPP, IMPP, HDPU Infill.

​

Our pipeline site inspection activities covered include Cold Bending, Excavation and Trenching, Surface Preparation and Field Joint Coating, Heat-Shrink Sleeve Application, Thermal Insulation Infill, Warning Tape Installation and Back-filling. All aspects of inspection reporting, documentation review, final inspection and sign-off are included as standard. Aspects of Cathodic Protection Installation (Temporary and Permanent) can also be monitored on request.

Increased awareness in recent times means that local communities, councils and asset owners now recognise the fundamental importance of life and building preservation using Passive Fire Protection (PFP) material application.

​

More and more companies and organisations are seeking professional advice, guidance and installation support of spray applied thick and thin film intumescent Passive Fire Protection (PFP) materials.

​

Marc Alexander offer full-service certified inspection solutions for all forms of Passive Fire Protection systems.  We have expert experience with thick and thin film intumescent coatings, dense and lightweight concrete materials, dry-fix boarding systems and additional fireproofing products including 3M Interam multi-component Passive Fire Protection systems.

​

A suitably qualified and experienced Passive Fire Protection inspector will meet your project quality requirements with the highest standards of accuracy and excellence, providing full professional documentation for your peace of mind.

Our extensive experience with oil and gas processing plants, petrochemical plants, LPG facilities and well-sites means that Marc Alexander are exceptionally well placed to support and monitor your quality inspection needs.

​

Coating systems include: Amercoat 90S / 450S, Amerlock 400 / C, Belzona 1212 Epoxy, Carboguard 893SG, Carbothane 134, Hempadur 1557, Hempathane HS, Hempel Vinyl Ester GF 3591, Interseal 670 HS, Interzinc 22, Intertherm 50, Jotun Chemflake Special, Jotacote Universal, Jotatemp, Sigmacover 435, Sigmazinc 158 and Sigmatherm 540.

​

All stages of inspection activities are fully monitored, from steel and surface preparation, salt test, dust and profile testing through to application of coatings materials until dry film thickness, holiday detection, and pull-off adhesion testing has met the requirements of the client specification. 

 

All documentation, certification review, coating records, reporting and signatory requirements will be undertaken on behalf of the client.

Our experience of coating factory inspections covers all aspects of your inspection and test plan requirements from pre-qualification, pre-production, surface preparation and all coating application processes through to final inspection, documentation review and acceptance.​

​

Marc Alexander offer fully comprehensive factory coating processes including Automated Spray and Conveyor Coating, Tumble Spray, Hand Spray, Dip-Spin and Powder Coating.

​

We inspect all coating types that include liquid epoxies, factory applied fusion bonded epoxies (FBE), electroless nickel plating, galvanizing, flame-sprayed coatings, rubber linings, polyurethanes, urethanes, organic and inorganic zinc coatings and phenolic coatings. 

​

Should you require an 'in-process' or 'monitoring' inspection at short notice, or an experienced inspector to represent your project, please get in touch with our mission-ready inspection team.

At Marc Alexander we understand the importance of your marine coating projects.  The steel structure of a sea-going vessel is prone to corrosion throughout its service life and correct installation and maintenance of a suitable corrosion protection system is paramount to the life cycle of the vessel.​

​

Cruise ships, ferries, tugs, oil tankers, ice-breakers, yachts and merchant shipping owners are constantly looking at ways to improve efficiency and reduce maintenance costs. 

​

A Marc Alexander coatings inspector will ensure that your coating system requirements during new-build, refit and maintenance are installed both correctly and within budget and time schedule requirements. 

​

We are ready to discuss your marine and shipping project requirements from a coating inspection perspective and ready to work with you.  Please get in touch to find out more about our quality inspection services.

​

​

We understand that offshore inspections and testing are completely different to onshore inspection and testing.

​

Although Marc Alexander do not specialise in offshore inspection we do ensure that pre-installed offshore equipment, piping and vessels are coated, insulated and expedited correctly prior to installation offshore.

​

We have vast experience in this field and are ready to meet and discuss your project requirements.

 

If you require an experienced and quality focused inspector to monitor the coating and insulation aspects of your offshore equipment prior to installation, please get in touch via our contact page and we will be only too happy to represent you during your project.