Read the latest issue of the magazine dedicated to corrosion prediction, prevention, protection and mitigation - Special edition on cathodic protection!
Sustainability does not begin with renewable energy
or recycled materials, but with something more subtle and concrete: the protection of metal against corrosion. Extending the service life of industrial assets, infrastructure, and metal components is the first and often the most effective weapon for reducing environmental impact, as well as production and maintenance costs. Every year, corrosion generates enormous economic losses and a wasteful use of resources. Preventing it means not only saving money but also avoiding the need to produce, transport, and dispose of new materials.
As you will notice in the following pages of this Corrosion Protection issue, which focuses on cathodic protection, interdisciplinary collaboration is one of the keys to developing new protective and maintenance technologies.
Metal protection is no longer confined to materials engineering or coating chemistry: today, it also involves physicists, data scientists, sensor experts, computer scientists, and environmental engineers. Only when combining these skills is it possible to develop technologies capable of predicting, monitoring, and counteracting material degradation accurately and promptly.
The most advanced solutions arise at the intersection of different disciplines, where knowledge of electrochemical phenomena merges with data intelligence. Today, smart sensors can detect minimal variations in humidity, temperature, or electrical potential and, thanks to AI, translate this data into predictive models that anticipate the risk of corrosion. This results in truly preventive maintenance, which dramatically reduces plant downtime and intervention costs while improving safety and operational continuity.
These two aspects are key to detecting and assessing corrosion, but also to developing prevention systems that are increasingly accessible and practical. For example, inorganic but non-metallic protection technologies that can be installed in a matter of minutes and with little effort and cleaning and surface preparation systems that do not require complex infrastructure for their management – often impossible to install in sites such as offshore platforms or shipyards – are the future.
This and much more is covered in the latest issue of Corrosion Protection for this year. It is packed with international content, sourced from both prestigious research institutes and companies conducting research in emerging economies such as India, also demonstrating the increasingly global reach and appeal of this technical and scientific journal.
Among the many trade fairs we will be attending to distribute it is ADIPEC, held in Abu Dhabi in November: with 17 exhibition halls and over 2,250 exhibitors, the world’s largest energy-related event will also focus on corrosion protection – because extending the life of materials means extending the life of infrastructure.
After all, sustainability is not just a matter of new materials, but of intelligence applied to those we already have.
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