Coatings Specialist

Alex Kilos embrace 32 years in the application programs industry, Alex Kilos has earned the right to be called a coatings specialist. In 1991, he retired from his position at Sees Australia, where he was responsible for evaluating coatings for seaward and pipeline application, writing specifications, performing distress analysis, and conducting maintenance coating surveys to twist the companys maintenance program. Since then, Kilos has munched a new career as a adviser for his company A Kilos Consulting Pity.Ltd. (Sale, Victoria). The scope of his run away includes specification writing and reviewing, failure analysis, design and supervision of test programs, mystifyment and presentation of training programs, coating inspection, and coating surveys. W Training Applicators Kilobits current focus in his work is education. The Australian coatings industry is only Just beginning to understand the splendor of qualified industrial coatings applicators, he says.Until recently, indus trial applicators were an untrained group who had no recourse to a formal program of education. This situation was in ascetic contrast to that of house painters, says Kilos, who are re- 152/ Journal of Protective Coatings &038 Linings squired to undergo three-year apprenticeships onward achieving qualification. When new, high performance coatings entered the Australian market, applicators were unprepared, says Kilos. As a result, Kilos headed the drive to develop the first