CORREX 2009: EXHIBITION & CONFERENCE NEC BIRMINGHAM

Attend all three, one day seminars, on protective coatings or CP for only £75 per day

Check out over 50 exhibition stands at Correx and Surface World at the same time

The UK Corrosion Conference, so successful and popular during the 1980’s and ‘90’s is being integrated with the re-launched Correx 2009 Exhibition at the NEC Birmingham on the 27th - 29th October 2009.

The two themes of the Conference are, Protective Coatings for Steelwork and Cathodic Protection for Corrosion Control.  There are a series of alternating, “stand alone” conference sessions and workshops, so any delegate who attends will be able to “pik and mix” between the events and also visit both the Correx Exhibition and the Surface World Exhibition, which are adjacent to the conference and workshop rooms.

As stated in previous issues the coatings themes for the Coatings Conference, sessions cover Steel Bridges, Steel Framed Buildings and Steel Structures with particular reference to immersed structures.  The well known speakers and Chairmen of these sessions are drawn from a range of experts and specialists in their fields, which covers the broad spectrum of surface preparation and long life coatings, from specifications and the initial placing of painting contracts, with insurance backed guarantees and quality control, through to satisfactory completion of the contract.
 
There are also a range of papers, which cover various aspects of surface preparation, coating types and application as well as papers that will cover both successes and failures, giving the reasons for the cause or causes and identifying the high cost of repairs where the specification coating system or application was defective.

There will also be three hour coating workshops for delegates to attend and these will alternate with the cathodic protection conference sessions.  The coating workshops will cover the ICATS applicator qualification, introducing the new specialist modules on blast cleaning and spray application and will cover the way in which Lloyds will be auditing the scheme on a national basis. The ICATS key skills sector will also be outlined by David Eyre, the scheme Co-ordinator.
 
During this event there will also be a detailed presentation on the new, “No Blame”, Insurance Backed Guarantee Scheme, which will be available for Specifiers and structure owners when ICATS registered companies and qualified operatives are used on major projects. 

A second coating workshop will be held on inspection instrumentation and testing of coatings and this will cover the use and misuse of equipment for surface preparation, ambient conditions, coating application, both wet and dry film properties, together with a range of other instruments, which provide the armoury for the competent and experienced coating inspectors.

The Cathodic Protection Conference Sessions will be launched on Day Two by a plenary lecture from the Institute’s President, Professor Paul Lambert. Papers on CP will also be presented on bridge protection, protection of immersed structures, pipeline monitoring, pipeline AC mitigation and in particular the use of cathodic protection on offshore wind farm structures. 

The workshops on Cathodic Protection, which will be held in conference Room 2 will include one session on the UK Mirror Group (WG 3 offshore), a second one will cover steel in concrete, in particular the methodology and the third CP workshop will cover the new Institute’s level 1 qualification.  There will also be workshops organised by the newly formed Corrosion Engineering Division coatings and cathodic protection workgroups.  Full details of the individual workshops and the full conference programme, together with Titles, Chairmen, Speakers and timings will be published in the next issue.

The conference organising committee have arranged a very flexible structure for delegates to register for half day workshops or conference sessions, full days can combine both conference sessions and workshops and there are also two and three day registration packages so delegates will be able to take in all of the Coatings and CP presentations, participate in the workshops and visit the numerous stands exhibiting the latest coatings, surface preparation, instrumentation, CP design and equipment displays.