A different way to think about Corrosion Control in Maintenance. S2S Product Line from Valkyrie Enterprises
Who It’s For
This session is useful for:
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Fleet Managers
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Equipment Managers
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Machinery Managers
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Asset Protection
About the Speaker
Dave Evans is the Director of Commercial and Industrial Business Development for Valkyrie Enterprises. His career includes decades of executive management expertise working as a senior executive in the protective coatings and corrosion industry. Dave holds NACIP 3 and AMP PC credentials and has been an AMP instructor for 37 years.
A different way to think about Corrosion Control in Maintenance. S2S Product Line from Valkyrie Enterprises.
Most corrosion doesn’t occur in laboratories. It occurs on a real-world structure like the picture that’s in the slide. This is actually a picture of a bridge that an engineer sent to me that he was taking a look at, and he wanted to make sure that whatever they were doing was the right thing that they were doing, but they had some constraints that they couldn’t work around. A lot of times when you take a look at the situation that’s in the picture, you can’t do perfect surface preparation, or maybe you don’t have the downtime and can’t close the structure. Or maybe you just don’t have the funding at that present time to do it.
Why Traditional Coatings Struggle in Maintenance:
A lot of times the specification is written around applying traditional coating systems to new steel construction. A lot of times it depends on something like a commercial blast cleaning or maybe even something that’s more critical, like near white or white, where they need an anchor profile, typically two to four mils or something like that. Their corrosion-resistant properties are dependent on how well they actually can adhere to a mechanically prepared surface, typically abrasive glass cleaning. And lots of times they’re sensitive to moisture, surface contamination, salt contamination, and those kinds of things.What S2S offers is a different approach:
It’s not to replace traditional coding systems. They offer some unique solutions to difficult situations where maybe you can’t abrasive blast clean for any one of a number of reasons, or you don’t have the ability to spray apply a coating.- Penetrates and migrates into rust, seams, pits and surface irregularities where corrosion begins.
- Displaces moisture from steel surfaces
- Combines corrosion inhibition with flexible barrier protection
- Not dependent on perfect surface preparation ion for performance
Where this approach works best:
The Valkyrie S2S products fit into multiple industries. We grew up in the marine business. S2S has been in business since 2004, and their primary focus was marine when we started, and they have a tremendous relationship with the US military, especially the Department of Navy, but we’ve also expanded to bridges and highways, different kinds of construction equipment, and anything that requires either long-term or short-term corrosion protection. The common thread between all of them is generally in-service steel or other metals that require maintenance so that they don’t corrode, or you want to stop the corrosion, not just simply convert it from rust into something else, where you have moisture or salt exposure and you don’t have the ability to do outstanding surface preparation at that time.
How S2S Fits into Corrosion Management:
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Compliments traditional costing systems
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Addresses corrosion challenges where traditional coating systems struggle
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Supports maintenance without full shutdown.
Q&A Highlights
From what you’ve seen in the field, where does S2S actually save the most money? Labor reduction, extended inspection intervals, or reduced rework?
Where it works best is where you’ve got areas that are, well, I’m going to break it into two or three different things. Let’s talk about areas where you can abrasive blast clean, but you’ve still got corroding steel. I’m going to make it up, but let’s say you’re in a saltwater marine environment close to the ocean and you’re doing structural steel on a bridge. Now, while S2S isn’t going to provide aesthetic value like, probably, a polyurethane on the steel where you can’t abrasive blast clean, it’s a simple application. You knock off the loose rust and make sure that it is clean, and it doesn’t even have to dry. You can then apply the product with a spray, brush, roller, or whatever it takes. You know you with some of the items you can flood coat if you want. So long-term corrosion protection, absolutely.
The beauty of it is. Let’s say down the road when you have the funding and you want to paint it, how do I remove it? What’s the next maintenance site? With a high-pH detergent, something like Simple Green or one of the products that is out there, you can certainly remove it with warm water and a high-pH detergent and abrasive glass, clean it, and put on there whatever you want to do later on.
It says if someone is evaluating this against a traditional coding system, what scenario makes S2S the obvious choice, and where could you say it’s not the right fit?
It’s not the right fit for most kinds. Well, any kind of immersion in a liquid, OK. And I don’t mean water, but let’s say, for the sake of example, you’ve got a, you know, sour crude oil or gasoline or something like that. Absolutely not.
But where it does work very, very well is where you’ve got a situation where I need to provide long-term corrosion protection. I want to do it with my own plant maintenance personnel that can’t use abrasive glass cleaner, don’t want to, don’t have the time, or whatever.
It may be, and I mean a long-term corrosion protection, in that that kind of scenario works tremendously well. The other thing is we make anti-corrosion tapes. If I need to tape-wrap something in paste, I can have corrosion resistance that will last for decades depending on the application and how I want to do it.
Have you seen or heard of it causing any CP interference? Does it have NSF or NSF 61?
No, none at all
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