Corrosion

Protecting Metal: Rust Most Likely Before and After Transport

If you’re shipping any kind of metal, corrosion is a concern. Understanding the environmental moisture of your package’s journey is critical to predicting its risk of rusting. However, what many companies fail to realize is that temperature fluctuations are hardest on metal, and these variables are most prominent before and...

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Extending the Life of Trucks, Trailers, and other Metal Assets – Cleaning and Corrosion Protection

To some, metal assets dictate livelihood. Truck drivers, for example, depend on the structural integrity of the vehicle for both income and personal safety. Maintaining the truck is extremely important, and can often require the replacement of parts. This can be very costly, especially in a sometimes volatile industry.Other people...

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Trucking & Corrosion: The Major Problem and Solutions

Vehicle corrosion has long been an issue for truckers, but only recently has data been clear enough to strike panic. The issue has grown over the years as de-icing agents for roads have become more corrosive. When Roy Gambrell and the Technology & Maintenance Council (TMC) tallied replacement costs for...

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The Best Film to Protect Packaged Metal Products

If you’re shipping or storing metal, the best anticorrosive film on the market is now flame retardant and still fully customizable.Problem: Metal products, parts, and/or components require protection from the elements during shipment. Exposure to humidity, salt, moisture, condensation, and other aggressive industrial atmospheres cause tarnish, rust, white rust,...

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Cortec VpCI® versus desiccant bags

Corrosion is definitely a concern when packaging and shipping delicate electronic devises or components.  Many electronic components have exposed copper which in the presence of moisture can corrode.  When electrical contact is required, even a slightly corroded copper surface can impede connections.Desiccants have traditionally been used to protect electronic products...

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Corrosion issues are everywhere

It doesn’t take long to peruse the news and find stories relating to corrosion.   Corrosion is one of the most common issues that consumers and industry face and estimates indicate that billions of dollars are spent each year dealing with corrosion issues.   The following are a few news items and...

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Are carriers liable for corrosion damage?

In our last blog we stated that, in general, the carrier is liable for product damage when it had control of the cargo. We also noted that the burden of proof is on the carrier’s part if they are going to defend against a damage claim.So what type of claims...

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University Study promotes Vapor Phase Corrosion Protection

An interesting paper was presented at the NACE International Corrosion 2015 Conference and Expo.  Download Paper Here  NACE International is an association dedicated to assisting organizations with corrosion issues by providing training, research and education materials to the general public.   One of the papers presented was a comparison study of...

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What is the ROI of corrosion protection?

There was a recent press release about a company that created an online ROI calculation tool for adding corrosion inhibitors to road salt brine.  See press release here.   While this is an industry that Packnet does not serve, this press release does bring up an interesting point:  what is the...

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