National Coatings Corporation (NCC) is committed to developing environmentally friendly roof coatings that help reduce the effects of global climate change CAMARILLO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Over the past 30 years, National Coatings, www.nationalcoatings.com, has created the AcryShield and Acryguard family of highly reflective roof coatings that have assisted in increasing solar reflectance back into the atmosphere while decreasing CO2 emission and its effects: solar heat gain; high temperatures and urban heat island effect. According to Senior Scientist, Hashem Akbari at the renowned Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, resurfacing existing flat roofs with white or highly reflective roof coatings that have a durable solar reflectance of at least 60% will increase the roofs' solar reflectance by a minimum of 40%, thus resulting in a dramatic decrease of CO2 emissions from energy production. “If owners of low slope roofs choose a highly-reflective AcryShield cool roofing system, the cumulative effect can quickly move into annual avoided production of hundreds of millions of pounds of CO2 annually,” says Bill Kirn, Technical Director, author, speaker and chemist in acrylic cool roof technology.
