CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #689: Standardizing VpCI®-649 for Hydrotesting   March 01, 2023 Years ago, a manufacturer of oil and gas “Christmas trees” and other equipment was using different Cortec® hydrotesting corrosion inhibitors at various locations around the world. They decided to streamline their product selection by standardizing [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT #506: VCI Paper for SUV Frame Preservation   February 21, 2023 SUV frames wrapped in VCI films were being rejected due to dark tarnish and corrosion spots where process oils had broken through the packaging. Since the customer could not eliminate the processing oil, another packaging solution [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #644: Oil Company Part Preservation   February 14, 2023 A major international oil company needed cleaning, preservation, and storage of spares at a warehouse in Qatar. The climate was harsh, with high fluctuating temperatures, 90% humidity, and fine blowing sand. Pipes, flanges, valves, fittings, [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #542: Preserving Screw Compressor Air-End Parts for Export   February 07, 2023 A major air compressor manufacturer required their supplier of air-end parts to export components clean and rust-free from India to plants in Europe, North America, and Asia. To meet their customer’s expectations, [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT #767: Mitigating Carbonation Corrosion   February 02, 2023 A 15-story building in Barcelona was being rehabilitated into an apartment complex with a parking garage. Unfortunately, carbonation had set into the concrete over time, reducing the concrete’s pH and leaving the steel reinforcement vulnerable to corrosion attack. [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #734: Best PT Mix Ever!   January 24, 2023 In 2021, a new mixed-use complex in Nebraska called for the construction of a four-level post-tension (PT) parking garage with a 100-year design life (before the first corrosion-related repair). Adding a corrosion inhibitor was essential [...]

Case History Spotlight #711: Solving Concrete Set Problems with MCI®-2005 NS January 10, 2023 A mid-summer concrete pour at a new luxury condo project in Toronto began to turn into a nightmare when the concrete began to set too quickly. High temperatures around 100 °F (38 °C) and the [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: Case History #376: Corrosion Mitigation at Alcatraz   January 04, 2023 The famous Alcatraz federal penitentiary is located on an island in San Francisco Bay and surrounded year-round by saltwater and fog that cause many corrosion problems for the National Park Service (NPS) managing the historical [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT: #643: Biobased Coating for Outdoor Tube Storage December 30, 2022 The ends of 30 feet (9 m) tubes used in fire protection systems were being missed during a fast-paced painting process on the production line. The manufacturer needed a rust preventative that could protect the ends [...]

CASE HISTORY SPOTLIGHT#616: Coating Refrigerator Coils December 22, 2022 A refrigerator coil manufacturer was unsatisfied with the solvent-based paint they were using to coat the coils. Workers disliked the strong solvent smell and associated health hazards. Long-term corrosion protection was also deficient. By switching to water based VpCI®-386 in [...]