CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #626: Automotive Tool and Die Preservation May 23, 2025 A mold and die manufacturer needed a way to protect a 40,000 pound (18,144 kg) two-cavity automotive interior P20 mold from corrosion during five to six weeks of overseas shipment. The mold cavity, core, [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #501: Preservation of Cooling Plant Chillers April 09, 2025 When the chillers for a district cooling project arrived on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi much earlier than plant commissioning, preservation was imperative. Standard practice was to cover the chiller units with tarpaulins, but [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #661: Plastic Recycling Program for Engine Plant April 01, 2025 An off-road engine assembly plant was receiving parts from around the world packaged in VpCI®-126 bags. As of 2010, suppliers were still adding oil to the bags as a carryover from old specifications. [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #693: FPSO Chain Restoration and Preservation March 20, 2025 During COVID, a major oil and gas company wanted to preserve a pick-up chain and hang-off chain from a FPSO (floating production storage and offloading) unit going into layup. The chains were extremely corroded [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #710: Preservation of Water Injection Skids February 26, 2025 An oil company in Southeast Asia had to wait more than six months to install water injection skids on their main offshore platform. In the meantime, the corrosion risk was high, as the skids had [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #620: Repair of Textile Factory February 19, 2025 An abandoned textile factory in Spain had fallen into disrepair. Corrosion from concrete carbonation had caused concrete deterioration that needed to be addressed to restore the building to use. Systematic concrete repair was done on 44,000 [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #638: Corrosion Protection of Railway Electrical Piers February 12, 2025 A railway in southeastern Europe needed to remove rust and protect 200 electrical piers. Instead of using sandblasting or other conventional methods of surface prep, workers removed loose rust with a wire brush [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #627: Winter Salt Cleanup for DOT Fleet January 02, 2025 A metro area department of transportation (DOT) in the Midwestern U.S. identified corrosion on winter plow and deicing trucks as one of their most serious rust problems. The road maintenance vehicles returned from [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #746: Enhancing Service Life of Pelješac Bridge May 29, 2024 The Pelješac Bridge is an important link between two parts of Croatia separated by Bosnia and Herzegovina. The bridge is located in a seawater environment, so the engineer chose to use AC coatings, [...]
CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #788: Preservation of Gas Turbine Engine Core May 19, 2024 A Gas Turbine Compressor Train-C (GTC) needed two years of preservation. The engine core needed to be isolated first. This was done by fitting VpCI®-126 HP UV Shrink Film to various openings such [...]
