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News Release from: Poeton Industries
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 November 2003
Test lab investigates corrosion and wear
Poeton has recently expanded its environmental test facilities to include a new corrosive/wear rig that will produce new data on the performance of its Apticote protective coatings.
According to Keith Stevens, R and D Director for surface coating specialist Poeton Industries, the effect of corrosion and wear occurring together can cause more than ten times the loss of material from a component than either one acting alone Explaining the phenomenon, he says normally passive layers that might otherwise slow the corrosive attack are worn away as soon as they form, immediately exposing the substrate to fresh corrosion
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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To help solve customers' ongoing problems caused by combined wear and corrosion, Poeton has recently expanded its environmental test facilities to include a new corrosive/wear rig that will produce new data on the performance of its Apticote protective coatings.
The all-plastic facility allows a reciprocating pin-versus-plate wear test to be performed in sealed atmospheres such as salt mist, sulphur dioxide or acid vapours.
When the results are compared with static corrosion and wear tests in air, Poeton will be able to determine the synergistic effects of corrosion and wear acting together.
The data will be an important feature of Poeton's second generation Isis coatings selection software, which will soon be available on CD or via the company's website to any users of industrial coatings.
Stevens reports that Poeton is already able to provide effective solutions to corrosive/wear problems and advises: "Corrosion has no respect for surface hardness, so tackle the corrosion not the wear".
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