Welcome to the News Section
Click down the page to the following categories: Insititute News, Industry News, Innovate Products, Ask the Expert and Fellows Corner.
ICorr Awards – Call for Nominataions
Each year the Institute of Corrosion bestows a range of internationally-renowned awards in recognition of excellence in corrosion science and engineering and to reward outstanding service to the Institute and the wider corrosion community. Many of these awards are...
Fellow’s Corner
In this month’s column, the retiring President, Dr G Hinds FREng FICorr FNACE FIMMM, discusses corrosion and the energy transition, and the need for corrosion experts to be involved. These are challenging times for everyone. Coronavirus, Brexit and climate change have...
ICorr/Marine Corrosion Forum Webinars
January 18 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Following the success of the joint ICorr/Marine Corrosion Forum Webinars in 2020 there will be a further series of Webinars 18 to 22 January 2021. The MCF will open the virtual doors once more, with attendance completely FREE to MCF...
Improved Corrosion Inhibitor to Protect Post-Tension Cables
Cortec® Corporation has released an improved version of its MCI®-309 powder-based Migrating Corrosion Inhibitor™ now formulated without silica, for the protection of ferrous and aluminium metals located in recessed areas, interior cavities, and structural voids, such...
Fast Cure, Surface Tolerant, Abrasion Resistant System for Emergency Patch Repairs
Belzona Polymerics has announced the launch of a new product, Belzona 1818, specially formulated for emergency patch repairs in highly abrasive environments typically found in industries such as mining, cement, pulp and paper, biomass, where equipment is commonly...
Hempel launches underwater hull inspections powered by a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Global coatings manufacturer Hempel has launched an underwater Hull Inspection service using Remote Operated Vehicles (ROVs), to provide complete hull coating inspections while a vessel is at port or anchorage. The service is being rolled out at key ports across the...
Scottish start-up Novosound transforming the NDT market
Scottish technology start-up Novosound has launched a range of revolutionary non-destructive testing (NDT) products, providing a technological breakthrough that will dramatically affect how industry inspections take place. The products, which have all been developed...
Standards Up-date
ISO The following documents have obtained substantial support within the appropriate ISO technical committees during the past two months and have been submitted to the ISO member bodies for voting, or formal approval. ISO/FDIS 8407 Corrosion of metals and alloys...
Enhanced weathering performance of epoxy/ZnO nanocomposite coatings
A new report aims at improving the weathering performance of an epoxy coating via surface treatment of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles with different silane coupling agents. The main target of treatment was to suppress the photocatalytic activity of ZnO nanoparticles...
Aluminum triphosphate-containing intumescence flame-retarding coatings
The effect of aluminium triphosphate (ATP) on the flame resistance of intumescent flame retardant coatings (IFRCs) has been explored, with an aliphatic waterborne polyurethane (AWP) as the binder. The quantitative analysis on the pyrolysis kinetics of an...
AC-DC-AC technique for the accelerated evaluation of anticorrosion performances
A report of a new study on the use of an AC-DC-AC method for the faster evaluation of the anticorrosion performance provided by anodic films grown on an aerospace aluminium alloy, has been published recently. The test is based on the cyclic application of a cathodic...
World Paints and Coatings Market Study
Ceresana has announced the publication of their 4th study of the world paint and coatings market. According to the report, a total of around 43.3 million tonnes of coatings were sold in 2019. The construction industry currently uses almost half of all paints and...
SPE Conference, Aberdeen 16-17 June 2021
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 10th Oilfield Corrosion Conference and Exhibition is scheduled to take place on 16-17 June in Aberdeen, at the new P&J Live Complex. Once again, the oil and gas industry faces uncertain times due to falling demand. While...
Elcometer Limited acquires Sagola S.A
Elcometer has announced their acquisition of Sagola SA, a leading manufacturer and supplier of paint spray equipment to the automotive and industrial refinishing sectors. According to Michael Sellars, Managing Director of Elcometer, the Sagola range of high quality...
EUROCORR 2021 – Call for Papers
Hungary, Budapest Congress Center, 19 – 23 September 2021 The hosts of the annual corrosion congress EUROCORR, HUNKOR, together with the European Federation of Corrosion, EFC, and DECHEMA, have issued a call for papers for EUROCORR 21. The Congress has the motto...
STANDARDS NOTICE
New Offshore Wind Cathodic Protection Standard out for Public Comment A proposed new BS EN ISO Standard for CP of Offshore Wind foundations is presently in its public comment stage. Any ICorr Members with expertise in this area are welcome to comment. The Draft...
New appointments at Winn & Coales International Ltd
The board of Directors of Winn & Coales International Limited have announced that Mr Chris Winn, the great grandson of the founder Paul Winn will succeed his father, David Winn OBE, as the Chairman of the Group. Chris Winn becomes the fourth Chairman of the...
London Branch
The branch held its first technical meeting of the new season on 8th October, which was joint with LMS and its first meeting to be held virtually. Pablo Merino, the Cathodic Protection Technical Authority at CLH presented “A New CP Approach on Non-Isolated and Aged...
Aberdeen Branch
For the 2020-21 session, the branch is pleased to welcome Dr Muhammad Ejaz PhD, CEng FICorr, FIMMM as its new Chair, together with a very strong and diverse branch committee, whose details can be found at, https://www.icorr.org/aberdeen/ Aberdeen started its new...
Corrosion Science Division (CSD)
Corrosion Science Symposium Report The 61st Corrosion Science Symposium (CSS) was held online this year via Zoom between the 14th and 16th September. The CSS has been held annually since its launch in 1960 by Prof. L.L. Shreir, and is an ideal opportunity for students...
CED working day April 28th 2021 – ‘Managing Corrosion in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies’,
CED working day April 28th 2021: Managing Corrosion in Low-Carbon Energy Technologies. The Corrosion Engineering Division will be holding its Spring Working Day on April 28th 2020. If the Covid-19 situation allows it, the meeting will be held at the York National...
Letter to the Editor
Sir, I would like to draw the readers’ attention to the ‘Review of the cathodic disbondment resistance of pipeline coatings’ on page 14 of the September/October issue, in which it is claimed that ‘the main cause of coating degradation on pipelines with CP is cathodic...
Follow us on social media
General Enquiries
Institute News
ICorr Branch Updates
ICorr Aberdeen Updates On Thursday 7th November 2024 the Aberdeen Branch in a joint meeting with TWI welcomed Dr. Cheng Huan Zhong of Inductosense Limited, with a talk entitled ‘A Pathway to Thickness Measurement Locations (TMLs) Digitalisation.’ Complimentary to...
Cathodic Protection, Training, Assessment and Certification Scheme
All of ICorr’s 2023 courses were fully booked, and to “clear the waiting list,” we have already launched all 2024 CP training dates on the below website. https://www.icorr.org/dante-categories/1146/cathodic-protection/ Candidates can now purchase their space on future...
ICorr North-East Updates: Institute of Corrosion 2024 AGM at Neville Hall
On Wednesday, 13th November 2024, the North-East Branch of the Institute of Corrosion hosted the Institute of Corrosion 2024 AGM at Neville Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne. The day commenced with a Technical Offshore Wind Programme, followed by the AGM and concluding...
Industry News
Corrosion Morphologies
By Sarah Bagnall, CEng, MRes, BEng, MIMMM, Director R-Tech Consultancy Services Material: A106 Grade B. Environment: Nozzle contained both steam and process water used for both heating and cooling. Operating Pressure: 10 bar. Operating Temperature: 185oC....
New Powder Coating for Two-Wheelers by AkzoNobel
AkzoNobel launched its first single layer powder coating for two-wheelers - Interpon A3000. Interpon A3000 is focused on the key Indian market, home to well over 200 million two-wheeled vehicles. Last year alone, it’s estimated that more than 18 million two-wheelers...
Remembering Oceaneering Co-Founder Johnny Johnson
One of the original co-founders of Oceaneering International, Inc. an ICorr corporate member and now a world-wide Integrity services company, has passed away on June 27th, 2024. He was 86. Johnson co-founded World Wide Divers with Mike Hughes in 1964, which merged...
Innovative Products
Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd announce the launch new pipeline coating
Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd have introduced a new product to the Denso product line, Denso Bore-Wrap™, pipeline coating. According to the company, Denso Bore-Wrap is an abrasion resistant Outerwrap (ARO) which has outstanding performance against impact, gouge,...
Ask The Expert
Ask the Expert
The questions in this issue feature pipeline corrosion and how to decide whether a full repaint or sport repair is required for a failed vessel lining Question: What is Top of the Line Corrosion? When would you expect this, and how do you mitigate against it? BK...
Ask The Expert – Issue 165
Question: Under what types of exterior atmospheric exposure (other than marine) is it necessary to test for soluble salts before maintenance painting? PS Answer: The effect of soluble salt contamination on protective paint systems is well documented in terms of the...
Ask the Expect – Issue 165
The questions in this issue feature preventing corrosion of rebars in concrete and when to test for salt contamination of a substrate before painting. Question: What is the best way to prevent corrosion of reinforcing bars in concrete? CL Answer: By far the best way...
Fellows Corner
Fellow’s Corner – A Career as a Cathodic Protection Engineer
This series of articles is intended to highlight industry wide engineering experiences, practical opinions, guidance, and focused advice to practising technologists. The series is written by ICorr Fellows who have made significant contributions to the field of...
Basics of passive fire protection
Carbon steel is widely used a construction material of choice for buildings due to its inherent strength. Steel columns, trusses, girders and beams are the critical building components, failure of which usually leads to progressive collapse of the local and global...
Fellow’s Corner
This series of articles is intended to highlight industry wide engineering experiences, practical opinions and guidance, to allow improved awareness for the wider public and focused advice to practicing technologists. The series is written by ICorr Fellows who have...