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Sponsorship Opportunities – Showcase Your Organisation at EUROCORR Dublin 2026
Join us in Dublin for the EUROCORR 2026! This year, the conference theme is “Investing in our future: corrosion challenges for green technologies”, organized by ICorr together with EFC, IoM3 and Dechema. This also incorporates the 67th Corrosion Science Symposium as a...
H. G. Cole Award 2026
The H. G. Cole Award 2026 recipient has been selected! Please join us in congratulating David Harvey for his selection as the recipient of the 2026 H. G. Cole award. The H. G. Cole award is ICorr’s most prestigious award for service to the Institute and is made on an...
STGB Report – Introducing Our New Surface Treatment Scheme Manager (STSM) – Grant Wright
The Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Grant Wright as Surface Treatment Subject Matter Expert and Scheme Manager (STSM). Grant joined us on 1 March 2026 and has recently completed a handover period with Jane Lomas, who is retiring from the role....
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ICorr MIC Training Course 12th–16th October 2026 Advance your organisation’s capability in microbial corrosion management with this high impact, ICorr training programme. Designed for professionals in operations, integrity, inspection, management, design, R&D,...
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Joint Corrosion Mechanisms in Stainless Steel The Corrosion Mechanisms in Stainless Steel course offers a structured, practical overview of stainless steel behaviour in service and the reasons failures arise. The programme begins with key metallurgy and corrosion...
ETGB Corner – Expanding our Training Portfolio
ETGB Corner – Chair’s Opening Remarks I’m pleased to share an update on our ongoing work to strengthen and expand ICorr training portfolio. High quality, industry relevant training remains central to our mission, and the ETGB continues to focus on developing...
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Cambridge Corrosion Conference 2026 Highlights Advances in Digital Corrosion Management
In advance of World Corrosion Awareness Day on 24th April, the ICorr Midlands Branch jointly hosted the Cambridge Corrosion Conference 2026 with the European Federation of Corrosion (EFC) Working Party 15 and CorrosionRadar on 21–22 April 2026 in Cambridge, UK. The...
ICorr Corrosion Engineering Division Conference 2026
Summary Report: Corrosion Challenges in CCUS Applications Date: 24th April 2026 (Corrosion Awareness Day)Venue: Sir William Henry Bragg Building, University of Leeds Theme: NetCorr – Corrosion Challenges in CCUS Applications Introduction The ICorr Corrosion...
ICorr President Visits the University of Manchester to Celebrate Scholarship Impact
On 1 May 2026, Institute of Corrosion President Dr Yunnan Gao visited the University of Manchester to review the continuing success of the ICorr Scholarship Programme and to meet students and staff involved in corrosion education and research. The visit included...
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Note for Readers
ICorr were privileged to be invited to Portcullis House in Westminster adjacent to the Houses of Parliament for a special themed event on the topic of ‘Reuse, Renew, or Replace?’ The following series of articles are presented in the same order as presented to the...
Ask the Expert – Enhancing Corrosion Inspection through UAV technology
Enhancing Corrosion Inspection through UAV technology by Stephanie Okoye, B-Eng, MSc, CEng, AMPP, MICorr Meet the Author Stephanie Okoye Stephanie is a Chartered Senior Corrosion Engineer with over 15 years of experience in the oil and gas sector. Currently with...
Solution for CUPS Corrosion: The RedLineIPS SmartPad System - Cogbill Construction of Texas U.S.A
The RedLineIPS SmartPad System, from Cogbill Construction of Texas U.S.A., is a patent-pending Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (FRP) solution specifically engineered to address Corrosion Under Pipe Supports (CUPS) at coastal and offshore facilities in the petrochemical and...
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Ask the Expert
The questions in this issue feature pipeline corrosion and how to decide whether a full repaint or sport repair is required for a failed vessel lining Question: What is Top of the Line Corrosion? When would you expect this, and how do you mitigate against it? BK...
Ask The Expert – Issue 165
Question: Under what types of exterior atmospheric exposure (other than marine) is it necessary to test for soluble salts before maintenance painting? PS Answer: The effect of soluble salt contamination on protective paint systems is well documented in terms of the...
Ask the Expect – Issue 165
The questions in this issue feature preventing corrosion of rebars in concrete and when to test for salt contamination of a substrate before painting. Question: What is the best way to prevent corrosion of reinforcing bars in concrete? CL Answer: By far the best way...
Fellows Corner
Fellow’s Corner – A Career as a Cathodic Protection Engineer
This series of articles is intended to highlight industry wide engineering experiences, practical opinions, guidance, and focused advice to practising technologists. The series is written by ICorr Fellows who have made significant contributions to the field of...
Basics of passive fire protection
Carbon steel is widely used a construction material of choice for buildings due to its inherent strength. Steel columns, trusses, girders and beams are the critical building components, failure of which usually leads to progressive collapse of the local and global...
Fellow’s Corner
This series of articles is intended to highlight industry wide engineering experiences, practical opinions and guidance, to allow improved awareness for the wider public and focused advice to practicing technologists. The series is written by ICorr Fellows who have...