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GAINA coating is used on the
roof of the Wing Shuttle in
Kansai Airport (AGT).

GAINA heat-insulating paint from Japan
Aerospace technology for coating walls, ceilings and roofs.

GAINA is certified as an incombustible, the
highest ranking, by Japan’s Ministry of Land,
Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.

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IN THE TOTTORI dialect gaina (大きい)
means “great” whereas in the coating trade
it is a superior brand of heat-insulating
paint tailored to the building construction
industry. Developed by the Japan Aerospace
Exploration Agency (JAXA) for its H-II
Rocket Programme, heat-insulating paint,
coated on the pointy noses of rockets
and satellites, protects these vehicles (and
their payloads within) from superheat
generated through atmospheric friction
during spaceflight. Bringing this very same
aerospace technology into its consumer
product development, Nissin Sangyo Co.
Ltd., Japan, has come up with GAINA, a
multi-functional heat-insulating painting
material for the interior and exterior of the
home, factory, warehouse and other built
structures.