Chris
Dohl, Vice President of Intech Services, and Dr. Peter Huesmann, Principle
Investigator for DuPont fluoropolymers group, attended and presented at the 68th
annual Corrosion 2013 conference and expo hosted by NACE International’s
Corrosion Society from March 17-21. NACE
International is the leader in the corrosion control community and is
recognized worldwide as the premier authority for corrosion solutions. Corrosion
2013 is a gathering of a diverse range of over 6,000 corrosion professionals to
focus on challenges having to do with corrosion such as oil and gas
exploration, petroleum refining, water and wastewater, pipelines, and more. For
more information on NACE, visit www.nacecorrosion.org
Dr.
Peter Huesmann presented DuPont’s NEW DuPont product offering (857G-508,
857G-018, 857G-575, & 857G-519) at the Threaded Fasteners: Coatings and
Methods of Protection for Threaded Fasteners Used with Structural Steel,
Piping, and Equipment event. His presentation included outside testing
information of the new corrosion resistant coating including salt spray testing
to 3,000 hours. Peter and Chris were contributors to the TG 148 event on Threaded
Fasteners as well.
Chris
and Pete attended many presentations while at Corrosion 2013. These symposiums
and meetings included Railcars: Coating Applications on Exterior Surfaces of
Steel Railcars (TG 339), Coatings & Thermal-Spray (TG 146), Corrosion
Protection of Offshore Wind Power Units (TG 476),Corrosion in Pulp, Paper, and
Biomass Conversion Symposium (STG 38), and Oil and Gas Coating Technology
Forum.
While
at Corrosion 2013, Peter joined the STG-33, Oil and Gas Production-
non-metallic and wear coatings committee for, demonstrating DuPont’s commitment
to continuing to develop and improve corrosion resistant coatings and solutions
for offshore applications such as offshore platforms, pipelines, oil and gas
production, and subsea equipment.
