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WET ABRASION TEST: Guardline A.R.C.

OBSERVATIONS: Guardline A.R.C. significantly outperformed competitive

coatings in both 8 hour and 7 day tests. When tested 7 days after the coatings had

been applied, A.R.C. developed over 7 times the abrasion resistance of the best of

the competitive products. In just 48 hours after coating application, A.R.C was over

20 times more abrasion resistant.

CONCLUSIONS: Guardline A.R.C. was clearly the most abrasion resistant

of any of the coatings tested. In fact, Guardline A.R.C. is, without question, the most abrasion resistant coating that we have tested. We were not only surprised with the extremely high level of abrasion resistance recorded in the 7 day test; we were very impressed with the rapid development of abrasion resistance indicated by the 48 hour

test. In just 48 hours after application, A.R.C. had already achieved 86% of its 7-day abrasion resistance. Consequently, in actual industrial floor applications, we would

expect A.R.C. to provide a much longer service life than any of the competitive

coatings tested.

FLOOR COATINGS	CYCLES TO FAIL
	48 hrs. 7 days
Solvent-based Alkyd	128 48
Solvent-based Urethane	96 64
Two-Part Solvented Epoxy	336 1,024
Two-Part Solventless Epoxy	224 144
Guardline A.R.C. (16 hr. formulation)	8,912 7,992

TEST METHOD: Each coating was applied by 6 mm pile roller in two coats to smooth concrete slabs and allowed to dry/cure at room temperature. Abrasion tests were conducted

at two intervals after the application of the second coat: at 24 hours, and at 7 days. Abrasion testing was performed on a standard Gardner-style Scrub Tester, using Diamond Grit No. 220 Wet Abrasive Paper, kept wet by water spray and changed every 1,000 cycles. Cycles to Fail indicates the number of back-and-forth cycles required to wear through the coating film and expose a minimum of one square inch of the concrete substrate.

Guardline Industrial Floor Coatings