ACA Updates

22nd Annual Technologists’ Picnic

This year, Materials Australia's Annual Technologists’ Picnic has moved online due to the current restrictions in Victoria. This annual dinner-meeting is customarily supported by members of the Australasian Corrosion Association and several sister organisations. Interested members of the general public are also encouraged to participate in this free event. This year's guest speaker is Christopher C. Berndt, University Distinguished Professor Director SEAM, Surface Engineering for Advanced Materials.

9th September 2020

Moon is rusting! Why ?

In this article a discovery that the moon is rusting causes a

8th September 2020

Prof. Maria Forsyth |Eurocorr Plenary Lecturer

Prof. Maria Forsyth is a plenary lecturer this year at EuroCorr with the subject of: Environmentally friendly multifunctional corrosion inhibitor systems For more information visit the Eurocorr website

1st September 2020

CLOSED – Call for Director Nominations – ACA Board

The ACA is calling for nominations from members to be elected to our board. Now is your opportunity to be involved at the highest level and lead your profession. The ACA Board requires a wide mix of skills and experience to satisfy its corporate responsibilities. If you feel that, you could make a valuable contribution or know a member of ACA who you feel would make an excellent contribution, please consider a nomination.

27th August 2020

Chairman’s Update

Dear members and colleagues, I hope you’re all staying safe and well as we endeavour to stay vigilant, yet connected through this ongoing pandemic. Since my last update, the circumstances have changed for all of our branches, some improving, some worsening, as this continues to be an uncertain time for us all. In Victoria, where...

12th August 2020

Les Boulton retiring from Fulltime Consulting – An acknowledgement from the ACA.

Les Boulton, one of the ACA’s ‘legends’, has decided to transition into semi-retirement and close his consultancy business, Les Boulton and Associates, to spend more time with his family after more than 40 years as a corrosion scientist and consultant. Les began his career as a science teacher in 1967 after gaining an MSc and...

10th August 2020

Special Edition of the CES&T Journal in Honour of Brian Cherry

The ACA would like to pay our thanks and offer our congratulations to Bruce Hinton, Mike Tan and Nick Birbilis, who have been successful in the production of a Special Edition (Vol 55, Issue 4, 2020) of the Corrosion Engineering Science & Technology (CES & T) Journal to celebrate the career of Professor Brian Cherry and his many contributions to corrosion engineering.

7th July 2020

Rana Everett | Member Profile

Rana is an active long time member of the ACA and an ACA Corrosion Technologist. She lives and works in Humpty Doo in the Northern Territory with her partner Paul Oldam; she is also extremely busy with multiple projects and two demanding toddlers.

5th July 2020

2019 International Symposium Papers Published in Special Edition of CORROSION

In July 2019, the Australasian Corrosion Association held an international symposium, “Advances in Corrosion Science and Corrosion Engineering,” to celebrate the many contributions made to Australasian corrosion science and engineering by Bruce Hinton, Les Boulton, Brian Martin, Brian Kinsella, Greg Moore, and David Nicholas. Now, a selection of those keynote papers included in the Symposium Proceedings have been updated and amended for publication in a special issue of CORROSION, the Journal of Science and Engineering, by guest editors Bruce Hinton, Brian Kinsella and Symposium Committee Warren Green.

17th June 2020

ACA Webinar Survey

Thanks to the willingness of many ACA members to try their hand at presenting or moderating a webinar, or joining a virtual panel, we've now had over 600 registrations to join our webinars as we look to host our 10th online event next week. We want to take this opportunity to get some input from our members on how they're finding this new medium and where they'd like to see us go in the future. If you can spare five minutes to complete this survey, we would love to hear what you've got to say.

14th June 2020

ACA Head Office Administration Restructure

Dear ACA members and colleagues, the last few months have been incredibly challenging for us all, both individually and professionally, in adapting to this new COVID-19 world. The ACA, like many organisations, has experienced significant reduction in our business activity, impacting our ability to facilitate planned face to face training and education programs, technical and...

11th June 2020

Corrosion & Materials Online

Over the past month much has changed at the ACA and one of the board decisions is that we will not be producing Corrosion & Materials in hard copy for the remainder of this year. In conjunction with the Editors and Committee we will be producing the same great content in an online format. The article submission guidelines are as follows:

26th May 2020

Chairman and Chief Executive’s Update

The latest update from ACA Chairman Dean Wall and Chief Executive officer Richard Reilly. This weeks update discusses the upcoming AGM and announces the newly released annual report, the ongoing ACA webinars and our member survey, all the latest developments regarding our ACA Training Courses and the postponement of the Corrosion and Materials Journal.

21st May 2020

ACA Webinar Recordings

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the ACA has been hosting a series of webinars in the place of our regular events calendar. Hopefully, you've all had the chance to tune in at some point during your time in lockdown. If there was a webinar that you missed or one that you attended which you'd like to revisit, we're pleased to announce that all our past webinar recordings can now be viewed on the ACA website.

13th May 2020

ACA AGM Announcement

The ACA AGM for 2020 will take place in the format of an online webinar on Wednesday 27 May at 5:00 PM AEST. We encourage all our members to register to join. If you are unable to attend, please complete an AGM proxy form and submit it online. All supporting documentation can be downloaded directly...

29th April 2020