Wide experience with application facilities throughout the world they can establish a baseline for standards of practice, departure from established standards and will evaluate the efficacy or propriety of factory application instructions, field representative recommendations and the products themselves.

CCG has the experience to link premature blistering, adhesive failures, corrosion, material failure or inept application to definitive causes, to help place liability where it belongs. The firm's long-term and intimate involvement with the industry adds a valuable, pragmatic perspective so that reliable, solid data can be developed.

Deposition and trial testimony is convincing, cost effective and bolstered by the utmost of integrity.

Assessments of vessel or aircraft coating systems as precursors to underwriting are quickly and conveniently made to assist the surveyor.  CCG consults with product liability carriers and their trial counsel and will educate their staffs on cost effective repair services.

Specialists in the evaluation of today’s expensive, high-tech coating systems, the firm provides  this specific area of expertise to prevent or minimize a buyer’s costly exposure to deferred maintenance, premature corrosion and deterioration or expensive coatings failure.

CCG’s staff can collect and intelligently evaluate the real facts behind the coatings applied in the past to a corporate jet or mega-yacht, to assist the owner, buyer, broker or surveyor in the creation of a realistic market value.

As distributors and manufacturers for nearly three decades, CCG’s key personnel have years of intimate involvement in aerospace and maritime construction and the yacht repair and supply business. They provide valuable advice to manufacturers or suppliers at market entry stages. Assistance with pricing structures, advertising, distribution and retail relationships along with product viability studies and marketing strategy is readily available.

Application engineering, applicator training, regulatory compliance and hazardous materials handling advice is available through CCG.

CCG can prepare or edit copy for application guides, assist in the development of practical and technical articles and releases, properly linked to the targeted reader. Market appeal and understanding are assured.

The team can consult with regulatory authorities as they examine the status quo of an industry proposed for regulation. CCG’s personnel have provided assistance to regulators, working with the Federal and California EPA, the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the San Diego Air Pollution Control District, boosting the agencies’ abilities to understand the communities subject to new or existing rules.

CCG has served as advocates on or behalf of the marine industry, appearing before air pollution regulators and preparing reports for the agencies’ study.

From the sourcing of proper products and the establishment of appropriate specifications, to first-hand, on-the-job supervision, forensic legal assistance and expert testimony, CCG is eminently qualified to consult on all phases of the marine and aircraft coatings industry.

Coatings Consulting Group  P.O. Box 1217  Newport Beach, CA 92659
                 Phone:   (949) 631-8480       Fax:   (949) 548-5986

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