CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #627: Washing Deicing Salts off DOT Fleets December 9, 2021 A Midwest U.S. DOT was hit hard every winter by corrosive deicing salts that led to vehicle rust. Snowplow and deicing trucks took the brunt of the attack, returning from the job caked with [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #695: River Restoration Firm Decides to ‘Go Green’ on Plant Packaging November 23, 2021 One river restoration and erosion control firm in the UK takes environmental responsibility seriously— down to its plant packaging choice. The business is the largest grower of native wetland plants [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #116: Cost Savings for Electronics Packaging June 23, 2021 A large technology company in Canada was shipping electronic equipment worldwide using military standard packaging, desiccant, and a vacuum to prevent corrosion. The process was time consuming and ineffective. They experienced a significant improvement by [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #348: First International Shipment with Eco Wrap®! November 11, 2021 January 2008 was a historic moment in the development of environmentally responsible packaging solutions. At that time, Cortec’s commercially compostable stretch film formulation, Eco Wrap®, was used in its first international shipment. The commercially [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #46: Pentagon Wall Restoration November 04, 2021 Historical structures have significant cultural values and part of preserving our heritage is preserving these structures. Due to their importance and uniqueness, they typically require special care when it comes to rehabilitating them. Cortec® Corporation was involved [...]
Case History #393: North-South Roadway Bridge Deck Protection October 28, 2021 Construction delays are inevitable at times, and that may have a detrimental impact on the longevity of post tensioning (PT) tendons if corrosives get to them. These delays could result in PT tendons sit on site longer prior [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #21: Solving Restaurant Grease Trap and Sewer Problems October 26, 2021 Frequent sewer clogging—plus bad smells from the grease trap—had become a headache at one restaurant in Russia. In 2017, they decided to try adding Bionetix® ECO-TRAP™ L and BCP22™ to the sewer pipe [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #33: Eliminating Potato Scab in Japanese Test Field October 20, 2021 A potato farmer was having high rates of potato scab infection in one of the highest-producing potato growing regions in Japan. In two fields measuring 65 hectares (160.6 acres) total, the farmer’s infection [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #604: Corrosion Protection of Valves During Hydrotesting and Storage September 29, 2021 A leading international manufacturer of pressure and flow controls for the oil and gas industry needed corrosion protection during hydrotesting and subsequent outdoor storage of valves. VpCI®-649 BD was proposed as a [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #619: Clamp and Powerline Protection at Wind Power Transfer Station September 23, 2021 In 2005, a valve plant in India had been shut down by the State Pollution Control Board because levels of total dissolved solids, chlorides, and sulphates in spent hydrotest water were [...]
