Welcome
to WCO – The World Corrosion Organization
Our Mission:
To promote education and best practices in corrosion
control for the socio-economic benefit of society, preservation
of resources, and protection of the environment.
Our Goals:
- To raise public awareness of corrosion and
corrosion control:
to develop and implement a Corrosion Awareness
Day that is recognized worldwide in the way we recognize
Earth Day. A worldwide Corrosion Awareness Day will help
create public awareness of corrosion and what the public
– individuals – can
do to control it.
- To identify world best practices in corrosion management:
to identify what are the best practices; that is, those practices
which should always be used by the industrialized world.
However, in many parts of the world, countries lack the resources
to put in place what the industrialized world agrees are
best practices and determine what would be the best practices
most suitable for their socio-economic conditions.
- To facilitate the provision of corrosion control expertise
to governments, industries, and communities: to work with
the International Corrosion Council to make this information
available particularly in the developing world.
- To normalize corrosion-related standards worldwide: to
harmonize the standards that are already in use.
Our Members:
International, national and other not-for-profit
organizations involved in dissemination of corrosion information,
corrosion research, education, mitigation, and/or materials
selection.
Our Affiliates:
Organizations that are interested in corrosion
and corrosion mitigation, but do not meet the criteria required
of members.
Achieving Our Goals:
Joint committees have been designated to work on strategies
for achieving each goal. We meet regularly via the Internet
because of widespread locations and differing time zones.
Upcoming Meetings
Please check the schedule of the individual conferences for the date and time of WCO workshops to be held at EUROCORR 2008,
NACE CTW 2008, ICC 2008, CSCP 2008, ACA Corrosion 2008 and
a final one in Frankfurt in the spring of 2009.
Corrosion Costs and the Future
The following is an abstract from,
"Now is the Time," a
paper presented by George F. Hays, PE, Director General, World
Corrosion Organization.
Abstract
At US$1.8 trillion, the annual cost of corrosion
worldwide is over 3% of the world's GDP. Yet, governments
and industries pay little attention to corrosion except in
high-risk areas like aircraft and pipelines. Now is the time
for corrosion professionals to join together to educate industry,
governments, and the public. Now is the time to work together
to harmonize standards and practices around the world and to
communicate and share corrosion mitigation technologies. Now
is the time to make a major impact to protect the environment,
preserve resources, and protect our fellow human beings.
Read the
entire paper, "Now is the Time" (PDF 79
kb).
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