Extend the lifetime and sustainability of your steel structures
Avantguard is a cutting-edge anti-corrosion technology. For over 10 years, this innovative coating solution has extended the lifetime of steel structures across a wide range of applications, from wind towers and bridges to airports and skyscrapers.
It not only prolongs the lifespan of assets but also simplifies application, reduces maintenance costs, and lowers carbon CO₂ emissions. It’s the ideal corrosion protection solution for any forward-thinking asset owner, consulting engineer, contractor, or applicator.
Get in touch to learn how Avantguard can improve your projects.
It not only prolongs the lifespan of assets but also simplifies application, reduces maintenance costs, and lowers carbon CO₂ emissions. It’s the ideal corrosion protection solution for any forward-thinking asset owner, consulting engineer, contractor, or applicator.
Get in touch to learn how Avantguard can improve your projects.
Superior steel protection with Avantguard
Enhanced corrosion protection
Avantguard is proven to deliver superior corrosion protection, even in the harshest of conditions. It will make your coating system last up to 50% longer.
Lower maintenance costs
Due to its superior corrosion protection, you will need to perform maintenance significantly less often with Avantguard – up to 30% less over your asset’s lifetime.
Improved sustainability
With Avantguard you can significantly reduce dry film thickness (DFT) and paint consumption, resulting in less CO₂ and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, while still achieving unsurpassed corrosion protection.
Discover the technology behind Avantguard
Take a deep dive into the development of Avantguard and its industry-changing patented triple activation technology.
Avantguard represents a breakthrough in zinc primer technology and combines three distinct anti-corrosion methods: galvanic effect, barrier effect, and inhibitor effect. The result is superior corrosion protection with higher durability compared to conventional zinc-rich primers.
Avantguard represents a breakthrough in zinc primer technology and combines three distinct anti-corrosion methods: galvanic effect, barrier effect, and inhibitor effect. The result is superior corrosion protection with higher durability compared to conventional zinc-rich primers.
Enhance your applicator business and productivity
With Avantguard you not only offer your clients excellent corrosion protection, you also reduce application time by up to 30%.
Easy application
With Avantguard, you can achieve superior anti-corrosion protection using standard airless spray application. Plus, its high tolerance to environmental conditions means it can be applied easily even in high temperatures and humidity
Fast drying
Experience the convenience of Avantguard's fast-drying technology. With a best-in-class overcoating interval, Avantguard coatings streamline your workflow.
Excellent end-result
Achieve an outstanding finish with Avantguard. Enjoy exceptional coating stability, edge retention, and film formation. Avantguard ensures a crack-resistant, high-quality end result even when applied at high dryfilm thicknesses.
Avantguard Selector
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Welcome to Hempel's Avantguard Selector.
Discover the performance of Avantguard's Triple Activation technology against your key focus areas. Start by selecting from the three criterias:
- Select the environment's corrosivity in accordance with ISO 12944 standard
- Select the required durability of your coating system:
- Select your focus area
Proven lifetime extension for any assets
Avantguard will extend the lifetime of any kind of steel asset, regardless of industry or conditions.
Civil Structure
From prestigious museums and World Cup stadiums to airports and skyscrapers. Avantguard provides superior protection, ensuring long-lasting structural integrity and aesthetic preservation.
Bridges
Heavily exposed infrastructure assets, like bridges and road gantry signs, benefit from Avantguard's advanced corrosion resistance, significantly extending service life and reducing maintenance needs.
Wind
Specifically developed for onshore and offshore wind towers, Avantguard enhances longevity and performance, ensuring optimal protection and reducing maintenance costs.
Oil & Gas
Withstand the harshest onshore and offshore environments – from the Arctic Ocean to the deserts of the Middle East – with Avantguard, ensuring your oil and gas assets remain protected and fully operational.
Cranes & Port Equipment
In challenging maritime environments Avantguard enhances durability and corrosion resistance for cranes and port equipment, ensuring seamless operations and increased uptime.
Marine
Avantguard technology provides top of the line anti-corrosion properties and durability, combined with reduced VOC emissions for different vessel types.
Our Cases
How we’ve helped our customers protect their structures with superior corrosion protection
Preventing steel constructions from corrosion across industries
Major stationary blasting and coating company trusts fast-drying and easy-to-apply Avantguard system for in-shop corrosion protection.
Long-lasting aesthetics and superior corrosion protection
A customised coating scheme with low VOC emissions helps achieve customers’ sustainability targets for a prestigious bridge project in China
Trusted protection for structural steel pipe racks in gas facility
Zinc-rich Avantguard guarantees superior mechanical strength and reduced corrosion for improved performance in extreme temperatures
Discover the future of steel protection
How can we make the use of steel more sustainable and cost-efficient? How can we help asset owners, and their advisors make more durable and sustainable choices?
Discover how these critical questions continuously drive the refinement of the Avantguard product range. Watch our Steel Dilemma video to learn how you can lead the way in steel protection.
Discover how these critical questions continuously drive the refinement of the Avantguard product range. Watch our Steel Dilemma video to learn how you can lead the way in steel protection.
