Kaveh Meghdadpour, director of national accounts and business development at floor coatings and concrete repair specialist Crown Polymers, shares insight on market trends in 2025 and some of the company’s strategies to help its customers.

For the first installment of this exclusive interview series, AMPP’s Alan Thomas had the privilege of speaking with Dr. Gerald Frankel, who is widely viewed as one of the most respected voices in corrosion science and a true pioneer in sustainability.

Led by Homero Castaneda Lopez, Ph.D. and housed in an innovative, modern facility, the Texas A&M lab’s work is reshaping corrosion control and material reliability across sectors like oil and gas, energy, transportation, and infrastructure.

Earth-covered magazines are specialized structures designed to safely store ammunition and explosives. While they provide significant protection against external threats, mold and corrosion can pose serious risks to the integrity, safety, and readiness of the stockpile.

Under the Naval Engineering Education Consortium program, the Port Hueneme, California-based command recently selected Clemson University to develop training using virtual reality (VR) tools to target shipboard corrosion.

More than 5,500 materials protection experts, industry leaders, and technical visionaries from 70 countries are expected to be on hand for an exceptional event in Nashville, Tennessee, USA, where our AMPP Publications team has exclusive, on-site Show Daily news coverage.

Theo Knijff, owner and founder of KAI-Con and a former manager at Dow, has spent his industry career tackling problems related to corrosion under insulation (CUI). CUI is widely viewed around the world as one of the biggest asset integrity threats in the petrochemical industry, and it is considered the largest contributor to maintenance budgets. Knijff’s experience stems from 36 years in asset integrity at large companies such as Dow Chemical, most recently as senior asset integrity manager for the company’s hydrocarbon business. Today, he runs KAI-Con, an independent consultancy helping organizations improve their asset integrity. CorrosionRADAR (Cambridge, England), a leading provider of predictive CUI monitoring solutions, recently asked Knijff for an expert’s view on mitigating CUI risks while drawing upon his career experience of implementing remote monitoring. The following is Knijff’s perspective.