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Early. Continuous. Effective.
Corrosion protection starts with these three adjectives, simple yet semantically complex and full of subtle nuances of meaning.
Preventing corrosion means preserving the integrity and operational continuity of assets. Applied to everyday life, this concept translates into transport and infrastructure safety, stable and consistent energy supply, and continuity of procurement.
In essence, the objective is to ensure that daily life runs smoothly and seamlessly for everyone, even though most of us, except those directly involved, are unaware of it. However, preventing corrosion is more difficult than one might think because – as we have repeatedly emphasised in the pages of this magazine – it is a natural phenomenon that cannot be eliminated but only mitigated and controlled.
Continuously monitoring the condition of assets, detecting potential problems that could lead to corrosion at an early stage, and taking effective action to restore protective technologies and repair damaged parts or potential failures are the real missions of corrosion specialists.
Until now, many of these operations were entrusted to humans, their skills, their manual dexterity, and their experience. The digitalisation process that has been transforming the industry over the last decade, however, is also reshaping asset management.
Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things are reaching their full potential in these technical sectors. When used in the predictive analysis of corrosion issues or of the status of corrosion protection systems, they enable the dynamic and, above all, continuous collection of real-time data that can be translated into risk models, intervention plans, and data-driven design strategies. AI can identify phenomena that are invisible to the naked eye but are actually early signs of corrosion. It knows no obstacles: it can monitor structures that are hard to reach, areas that are difficult to supervise, and perform operations that are too dangerous to be done manually.
It is not a matter of replacing humans, but instead of enhancing their abilities and senses in order to manage transient events and rapid changes in an early, continuous, and effective way.
The corrosion prevention sector is moving beyond its comfort zone and traditional approaches to pursue paths that ensure greater efficiency, sustainability, and effectiveness. This is demonstrated by the numerous articles contained in this first Corrosion Protection issue of 2026, with interesting innovations and successful examples of the application of new digital technologies that prove it is possible to adapt to changing environmental and operating conditions in assets more quickly and dynamically, thus safeguarding their integrity, reliability, and sustainability.
This topic was also widely explored at ADIPEC, the world’s largest event for the energy industry, held in Abu Dhabi last November and covered in detail in the following pages.
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