Monday, March 8, 2010

Graco equipment used in one of the world's largest polyurea projects

Construction is underway on the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway project. The entire 820-mile (1320 km) length of the railway platform will be coated with polyurea. It is estimated that 20,000 tons of polyurea will be applied to the platform throughout the duration of the project, making the Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway currently one of the world's largest polyurea waterproofing projects.

Construction crews are using Graco Reactor® Plural-Component Proportioners to apply the polyurea and Graco Xtreme® Airless Sprayers to apply a basecoat underneath the polyurea. The Beijing-Shanghai High-Speed Railway project is expected to be finished by 2011 and an estimated 220,000 passengers will use the expressway each day.

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