Day Two The second day of the Symposium had a strong industry focus. Corrosion management in the Oil & Gas industry was at the heart of the morning session. Topics covered included: Corrosion Monitoring for Oil & Gas Applications; MIC – lessons learned and challenges for the future; and, Recent Advances in Investigating Chemical Inhibition...
14th August 2019
Day One The ACA hosted an International Symposium focusing on the latest advances in corrosion science and corrosion engineering on 24-25 July at the Marriott Hotel in Melbourne. The symposium celebrated the significant contributions of the ACA notables: Les Boulton, Bruce Hinton, Brian Kinsella, Brian Martin, Greg Moore and David Nicholas. Featuring keynote presentations from...
12th August 2019
The ACA has signed a two year lease with Melbourne Polytechnic to utilise a vacant building at its Preston campus for new ACA premises. Members will recall that a search for a new building to house the ACA has been on the Board’s agenda for a number of years. The new building will enable the...
6th August 2019
An essential, unmissable two day event for those working in the corrosion industry, is to be held at the 5 star Marriott Hotel in Melbourne, on Wednesday 24 - Thursday 25 July.
24th June 2019
We are rapidly approaching this years International Symposium in Corrosion Science and Corrosion Engineering. Over the next few weeks we be releasing the some of the papers from the 2017 Brian Cherry International Concrete Symposium. They are available in web format to everyone. Members will be able to download them in original format at the...
16th June 2019
Say hi to all our new members
15th June 2019
ACA members, colleges, volunteers and friends, it is my pleasure to serve the Australasian Corrosion Association as National President for 2019. It is an honour to be the Association’s first female President, particularly as currently there are three female Branch Presidents: Patricia Shaw in New Zealand, Hannah Watchman in South Australia and Candice Blackney in...
2nd June 2019
The boat show was a great success for the ACA and ACA Foundation. We connected with lots of new people! Bringing to the marine and boating industry an awareness of the importance of protecting our assets from one of the most corrosive environments…the sea!
20th May 2019
Proper corrosion protection is critical in steel construction. Protective coating systems on bridges and other steel structures that fail due to poor durability or through incorrect specification are expensive, inconvenient and may have a negative impact on public health, safety and the environment when these systems are repaired or replaced. A simple means of specifying...
19th May 2019
A series of short articles written by Rob Francis | R A Francis Consulting Services | ACA Life Member Rust – to your nontechnical friends and family, is probably thought of as, all you deal with in your work in the corrosion mitigation industry. However, we all know our work involves so much more than...
5th May 2019
We are thrilled to announce the following members have joined our corrosion family.
29th April 2019
Today is the day that the ACA and all other international corrosion associations remind us to keep up the fight against corrosion and lament the fact that ‘rust never sleeps’. The degradation of private and public assets and infrastructure continues to have a major economic impact on industry and the wider community. In Australia alone...
23rd April 2019
Tim Froome, Managing Director of C M Beasy Ltd from Southampton UK was the winner of the ACA prize at Corrosion 2019, held in Nashville Tennessee. Attendees were encouraged to drop their business cards into a bowl at the ACA booth during the Conference. Tim’s name was drawn out on the last morning. More importantly,...
7th April 2019
This item preserved for Archive purposes Corrosion and Prevention is the largest Corrosion Conference and Exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere. The next Conference will be from the 24th -27th November 2019 in Melbourne. Submissions are now welcome on all aspects of corrosion and its control for Corrosion & Prevention 2019 (C&P2019). Papers are subject to peer...
26th February 2019