Ashland (Covington, Kentucky) has launched the Ashland Corrosion Science Center (ACSC) in Dublin, Ohio as a new center to support corrosion applications based on fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP).
The ACSC is a forum where industry partners, end-users, design engineers, and fabricators can work with the company’s corrosion team to grow the profitability and usability of FRP composites in corrosion-resistant applications.
The focus of the center is to define the efficacy of FRP in new corrosion applications, as well as to support customers in existing FRP industries such as chemical processing, oil and gas, mineral processing, and pollution control, the company explains.
Commercial and technical experts will solve customer problems through extensive laboratory and field corrosion testing, combined with real-world case studies. Corrosion technology professionals such as Tim Pepper, Michael Stevens, Don Kelly, Lisa Adkins, and Kevin Lambrych will work with customers, while Lambrych will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the ACSC's direction.
The company notes that its Derakane epoxy vinyl ester resins have been a key product in the corrosion-resistant FRP industry for more than 50 years, thus enabling its team to gain leadership experience in the material science of corrosion.