More than Skin-Deep

Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings has introduced Jet Prep Pretreatment (CM0220P01), a chrome-free, water-based, translucent, sol-gel metal pretreatment solution designed specifically for aerospace applications.

The two-component pretreatment kit provides superior adhesion and corrosion protection over aluminum substrates and pairs with aerospace-grade corrosion-protective epoxy primers and topcoat paint systems.

No special equipment is required to utilize Jet Prep Pretreatment. Users have only to spray, brush, or wipe on the product. Application is rendered easy by dint of a slightly pigmented (blue) tint that provides a visual cue, a flat appearance when dry that confirms successful application, and an extended pot life of up to 12-hours. Moreover, as no post-application surface preparation is required, Jet Prep offers a cost-effective and less labor-intensive alternative to traditional coating processes.

Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings Market Manager Julie Voisin stated: “Jet Prep delivers a high-quality, chrome-free pretreatment solution to the aviation industry. It also provides applicators the ability to apply a complete Sherwin-Williams chrome-free system from substrate to topcoat.”

Sherwin-Williams’s Aerospace Coatings’s Jet Prep Pretreatment meets the SAE’s AMS3095B standard as part of a complete paint system. 

For more than ninety-years, Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings has provided quality, durable paint-systems and technical support to the global commercial, military, general, and business aviation sectors. The first aircraft coated by the company was Charles Lindbergh’s storied Spirit of St. Louis, the custom-built, single-engine, single-seat, high-wing monoplane in which legendary aviator made his historic, 1927 New York to Paris flight—the first nonstop, solo North Atlantic crossing made in an aircraft. 

Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coating products include: chromated and vinyl wash pre-treatments; reducers; surfacers; primers; high performance polyester urethane and acrylic urethane clearcoats; topcoats in both single-stage and basecoat-clearcoat options; solvents and basecoat cleaners; and photoluminescent paints for aircraft propeller- and rotor-blades.

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