Surface protection has become an essential step either to protect the weak metal from corrosion, oxidation or wear or decorate the surface with different colours or finish. Many possible ways are there to achieve this. Application of paint coatings is the most trivial and easy to apply and therefore share 75% of the coating market. Annual paint market in India is about 65,000 CR. In the last decade, there has been a tremendous enhancement in the quality of paint coatings. Issues such as eco-friendly paint systems, waterborne or low VOC formulations, functional coatings, smart coatings have become important keywords. Also, there is a huge requirement in various industrial sectors such as automotive, marine and shipping, oil and gas, refineries, petrochemical plants and power plants. Thus it is important to discuss some of these modifications in a two-day conference and come to a better understanding of their selection procedure, application requirements and quality assurance.

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There is a parallel coating market, which utilizes sophisticated techniques such as Thermal Spray, Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) and Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD) and Laser Surface Modifications. For many industrial applications, thermal spray has become an important design parameter; much equipment requires hard and thin coatings for long durability. This whole bunch of processing techniques come under Surface Engineering and this conference will also devote a technical session to focus this area.

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5th Edition of International Conference on “Industrial Coating & Surface Treatment” (ICST 2024) will give you extensive knowledge in Protective Coatings, advanced extreme coatings, surface treatment, linings and interfaces engineering, discusses recent advances and current problems.  This event will provide an unique networking platform in terms of interaction amongst professionals from various government and private industries. Your involvement at this premier event is essential for the success of ICST 2024.