Biocides

This is the active ingredient most commonly used historically in antifouling products. Copper is found naturally in both seawater and sediments. Copper is an essential micromineral and marine life is completely dependent on the supply of copper from rivers and underwater volcanoes.

Copper has a very broad spectrum, it works well against both hard growth and algae and can be used alone as a biocide in an impregnation and give good results. Copper can also be advantageously combined with other active ingredients.

Copper oxide is approved for use in the EU.

Econea is the active ingredient that is really catching on in the Norwegian market and is increasingly taking over from copper in impregnations.

Econea works excellently against hard growth, but is less effective against algae. Econea is therefore less suitable as the sole active ingredient in an impregnation if it is to be used in locations with a lot of algae growth. Econea can be combined with copper oxide or copper omadine.

Econea is approved for use in the EU.

A widely used cobiocidal together with copper oxide in antifouling products for ships.

Kobberomadine is an algicide (it works against algae) and can be used together with Econea and/or copper oxide to create broad-spectrum impregnations.

Kobberomadine is approved for use in the EU.

Zincomadine is the precursor to copperomadine and was largely replaced by the latter as zinc often made the antifouling unstable in terms of viscosity. Sinkomadine has the same function as copperomadine, it is an algicide and works poorly on its own.

Sinkomadine is under approval in the EU and is allowed to be used during the approval period.