2025 – Aberdeen Annual Corrosion Forum (ACF)

On 26th August 2025 the Aberdeen Branch again successfully held its annual corrosion awareness event at the Palm Court Hotel with key sponsor Automa.

The Aberdeen branch has been active for more than 40yrs now and has been providing awareness training since before 2010 through generous industry support and a dedicated committee.

This year’s Forum was kindly sponsored by Automa of Italy, specialists in automated monitoring and themed on Cathodic Protection (CP).

Automa provided the Venue and all Catering for the day.

Introductory talks on the principles and costs of corrosion were followed by a series of talks explaining Cathodic protection principles, methods and anode manufacture. Thereafter some excellent case studies presented some recent Cathodic protection applications in order to raise awareness of some of the practical considerations such as electrical isolation from plant, electrical interference and fault-finding methods for CP system commissioning.

The afternoon sessions continued with several presentations by the sponsor Automa on advanced CP system monitoring and AI assisted data management and analysis. Automa then provided some excellent demonstrations of their devices and their software both widely used within Europe.

This popular Annual event attracted 43 registrants including many from its 16 local sponsor companies and also from our ICorr national sustaining companies.

Proceedings will be posted to the Aberdeen branch web page in due course at https://www.icorr.org/aberdeen/ ‘Local Technical Programme’

The Aberdeen ICorr Committee expresses its immense gratitude to all Attendees, Speakers, Sponsors and particularly to its Event Chairs – Eilidh MacDonald/Stephanie Okoye and to Fatemeh Faraji, the ABZ Events Coordinator.

On September 30th, 2025, the branch will host its first Event of the 2025-26 Technical Programme. This will be a Joint Event with the TWI North Scottish Branch and entitled ‘From Snapshots to Continuous Insight: Driving Maintenance Efficiency and Safety with Automated UT Monitoring by William Vickers of Ionix Advanced Technologies / Leeds, U.K.

Attendees will gain practical insight into how automated, non-invasive UT monitoring is being applied in the field today to enhance safety, optimise inspection programmes, and improve long-term asset performance.

Aberdeen welcomes your attendance at future events of the branch. Please contact icorrabz@gmail.com if you have any queries at all, or if you wish to join its committee.