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Worldwide Interest for Corrosion
Costs and Preventive Strategies in the United States
10/20/03
The 2001 report on corrosion costs in the
United States has drawn worldwide interest in nearly every
industry. Corrosion costs U.S. industry and government agencies
an estimated $276 billion/year, according to the study by
CC Technologies for the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
This is reason enough for many production and manufacturing
companies, transportation organizations, public utilities,
infrastructure developers, and government departments to take
a closer look at where all this money goes.
Responses to the study were received from
groups based in the United States, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia,
Canada, Argentina, India, Japan, South Africa, Venezuela,
and China. The major interest was found in the following industries:
paints, coatings and linings, plating and surface finishing,
powder coatings, plastics, composites, flow control, water
conditioning, water distribution, heating, fabrication, machinery,
product finishing, pipeline, chemical processing, paper, aviation,
automotive, nuclear and fossil fuel power, oil and gas, concrete,
roads and bridges, ports, business and management, and public
works – engineering, construction and maintenance.
The study is published by FWHA in a 773-page
hardcopy (FHWA-RD-01-156) and a summary was presented in a
17-page tech-brief. All study results are also available for
free at the web site www.corrosioncost.com as downloadable
files. To draw attention to the work, NACE International (The
Corrosion Society) prepared a news release and distributed
a supplement with the Materials Performance magazine. As a
result, more than 40 journals and magazines published the
results, reaching a combined distribution of more than 1,200,000
readers. Another 30 organizations contacted NACE directly
to receive more information about the study.
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The results of the cost of corrosion study have been presented
to industry and government at various conferences, including
the Transportation Research Board, the 52nd Sea Horse Institute
Meeting, the Uni-Bell PVC Pipe Association 31st Annual meeting,
the Department of Defense - Tri-Service Corrosion Conference,
the NACE International Corrosion Conferences, NACE Western,
Eastern, and Northern Area Conferences, NACE Section Meetings,
and ASME Section Meetings. And in November 2002, the CC Technologies
cost of corrosion study was featured in a Pat Summeral Success
Story that was broadcast on the CNN Headline News Network.
ASM International acknowledges the economic
importance of corrosion in design in the newly revised Corrosion
Handbook Volume 13A. The ASM handbook includes a chapter dedicated
to corrosion costs, explains the methods used to estimate
costs, and highlights the findings of the CC Technologies
study.
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