You Are Now Entering...The Transition Zone

The Transition Zone, sometimes called the corrosion zone, is that area just above ground or water and within 36" below the surface where enough oxygen and moisture exists to allow rust and corrosion to occur.  It's where the dampness of the soil rises and lingers, where waves and tides change places, back and forth, with air, and where the soil is loose enough to allow the circulation of oxygen.

In November of 2011, the Alabama DOT's 9th District Office took delivery of 2 Storm Greeter coated posts from Ovante.  One post was embedded at mile marker 9 on the beach highway between Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, AL.  The other post was fastened to a pier in the bay at the Perdido Pass Bridge in Orange Beach.

For the next 13 months, both posts were exposed to the elements.  They were exposed to UV, sand blasting, salt air and water, and marine life.  Six months into the test, the bay post was removed from the water and a section was taken off the bottom end with a portable band saw.  The post was then placed back in the water.

After 13 months, both posts were inspected.  The highway post showed no change from the day it was installed.  The sand blasting from passing traffic had caused no damage, and there was no fading from UV exposure.

The bay post was the one Ovante and AL-DOT were most interested in.  At the transition zone, where waves and tides constantly shared space with sunshine and salt air, Storm Greeter was pristine, where the uncoated post next to it was rusting and pitted.

Marine life had attached to the Storm Greeter coating, but had not penetrated its surface.  Barnacles could be picked off with a fingernail, and the marine life was easily scraped away to reveal a pristine surface.

The bare edge that had been exposed at 6 months and then sat in the seawater for another 7 months had not delaminated.  Corrosion had been limited to that bottom edge without pushing the coating away.

One of the aspects of "real world" testing - as opposed to testing in a laboratory - is that you're never really sure what might happen.  The pier that held the Storm Greeter post belonged to the Marine Police.  At some point during the test, a construction barge was impounded and sank in the slip adjacent to the test.  The boom on the barge struck the coated post enough to bend the steel - but the Storm Greeter coating did not crack or peel away.

So here's the question: What coating are you using to protect your company's assets?  Storm Greeter can lower your annual coating costs per square foot by as much as 50%.  Storm Greeter's 50-year life expectancy allows us to make that claim.  Labor expense for coating application can be reduced by as much 90%!

Contact us to learn how your company can see increased predictability and performance with Storm Greeter.  Go to www.ovantellc.com.