Current coating technologies utilize anti-corrosion pigments in the primer to protect metals from corrosion. The most effective anti-corrosion pigment is the highly toxic and carcinogenic hexavalent chromium (Cr6+), which refers to chemical compounds containing the element chromium in the +6 oxidation state. The toxicity of Cr6+ became well-known to the general public through the 2000 Oscar- nominated film “Erin Brockovich.” The film presented the real-life story of hexavalent chromium leakage which contaminated both groundwater and drinking water in the small California desert town of Hinkley, leading to the largest legal settlement in the U.S. history. Hexavalent chromium is a carcinogen that can cause severe malfunctions of the human body, contaminate water, soil and air, and harm plants and animals alike. A 2010 study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) discovered that the Erin Brockovich chemical, Cr6+, was present in the tap water of 31 of the 35 U.S. cities sampled, and 25 of them were at a level above the California-proposed safe maximum. Cr6+ has troubled the U.S. military for over several decades; hexavalent chromium has been named the No. 1 toxic enemy of the U.S. Military. In terms of protecting their mission-critical assets in the military and the aerospace industry, Cr6+ are still in wide usages without and effective alternative been identified. The regulations are tightening.
Zinc and/or zinc oxide are current environmentally compliant industry standard chromium alternatives. However, zinc cannot protect aluminum (a major material for the aerospace industries) or galvanized steel and is less effective in severely corrosive environments. Zinc price is expecting to increase again, and according to figures from the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with the current levels of usage, the known zinc reserve will be depleted around 2020. Over 50% of zinc has been used to protect metals from corrosion either through the galvanization process or as the sacrificial anti-corrosion pigment in coatings. The world has long been diligently searching for an effective Cr6+ alternative pigment for corrosion protection.
Conductive polymers have been regarded as an exciting environmentally friendly alternative to hexavalent chromium pigments since the discovery of the Polyaniline (PAn) anti-corrosion effect in the early1980s. That PAn can be used as a corrosion inhibitor was also stated in the 2000 Nobel Chemistry award publication. Many companies, organizations, and universities have invested significant resources into this research, and hundreds of research papers and patents have been published. Although many researchers have shown some positive results, the development of commercial products has been a long and arduous path in the past 30-plus years.
To meet the demand for an environmentally friendly yet high-performance anti-corrosive, Ancatt Co. has successfully developed Conductive Polymer Nanodispersion (CPND).
4. The direct corrosion
cost is 16X of total
annual major weather
related disasters
including: hurricanes, tornadoes,
tropical storms, floods, fires,
droughts, and freezes
15. Current Anti-Corrosion
Coating Technologies
• Hexavalent Chromate (Cr6) = most effective
-highly toxic and carcinogenic
-regulations are tightening
• Zinc/zinc oxide = environmentally compliant
-still a marine pollutant
• -less effective
-limited sacrificial life
-cannot protect aluminum, etc.
-facing depletion after 2027
• Long been seeking an effective Cr6 Alternative
17. Regulations on Cr6
• 2016: EU REACH requires all Chromic acids to Sun Set
(Authorization & Restriction)
• 2012: EPA lowered allowable Cr6 in coatings once again
• 2011: DoD Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
Supplement to minimize Cr6
• 2007: EU End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) prohibited Cr6
• 2006: EU RoHS prohibited Cr6 in electric & electronic
• 2006: OSHA reduce Cr6 ten-fold from 52 to 5
micrograms-per-cubic-meter
18. Aerospace Industry
Cr6 still widely used in
aerospace, defense, & other
high-end corrosion
protections without an
effective alternative
19. Dec. 2010 Washington Post
Cr6 Found in Tap Water
of Most U.S. Cities
31 of 35 surveyed cities
25 cities Cr6 content above safe
maximum
20. zhu
What should we use to
continue the corrosion
protections?
Zinc is Running Out
22. 22
CORROSION HAS LONG
BEEN BELIEVED AS A
NON-STOPPABLE NATURAL
FORCE: SILENT BUT
POWERFUL
THE DIRECT CORROSION
COST TRILLIONS OF
DOLLARS ANNUALLY, 3-5%
OF A COUNTRY’S GDP
WORLDWIDE
IN THE NEAR FUTURE, ZINC
HAS BEEN DEPLETED
WHAT SHOULD WE USE TO
CONTINUE TH CORROSION
PROJECTIONS?
28
HUMANITY IS
IN A WAR
WITH
CORROSION
24. 24
Inherently Conductive
Polymers (ICP) , The HOLY GRAIL
Have Been Regarded as an Exciting
Alternative to Cr6, After 35 years of
Worldwide Research Efforts
There had no successful product
26. Wet Adhesion Test After
8,372 hrs of Salt Fog
-ASTM D 3359 (Tape
Adhesion): 5A (Best
possible score)
-ASTM D 4541 (Pull-Off
Adhesion): 564 psi (Very
Good According to SSPC
Good Paint Practice)
27. Front and back comparison of steel panels
Accelerated Corrosion Tests
1,000 hrs Front 5,000 hrs Front 8,372 hrs Front
1,000 hrs Back 5,000 hrs Back 8,372 hrs Back
CPND
coating on
the Front
with scribe
line
vs.
Acrylic
coating on
the back
without
scribe line
Provided by
KTA, an
independent
corrosion test
lab in the U.S.;
5,000 hrs is
maximum test
hour according
to ASTM
standards
28. Corrosion Test – Salt Fog
(ASTM B 117)
• Corrosion Test Results:
Hours Metal Blistering Rusting
Undercutt
ing (mm)
Continue
P1 13,740 CRS* 10 10- 2-7 Yes
P2 13,740 CRS* 10 10- 1-9 Yes
P3 12,740 CRS* 10 10- 1-5 Yes
P4 12,740 CRS* 10 10- 1-4 Yes
P5 8,372 CRS* 10 10- 2 (Avg.) Yes+
P5 12,740 CRS* 10 10- 2 (Avg.) Yes
P6 8,372 CRS* 10 10- 3 (Avg.) Yes+
P6 12,740 CRS* 10 10- 3 (Avg.) Yes
P9 10,740 Aluminum 10 10- 0 Yes
* CRS: Cold Roll Steel
+ This Panels where scratched off the surface corrosion product at 8,372 hrs then been put back to the salt fog chamber
for continue testing
- Discoloration was founded on this panel
29. World Record
13,740 hrs (2+ years)
accelerated corrosion tests, still
No rusting or blistering
31. Industry
Recognitions
Independent corrosion tests
have shown this is a
successful conductive
polymer-based anti-
corrosion coating
technology and the first
non-chromate coating that
has out-performed
hexavalent chromate
coatings. It is also the first
heavy-metal-free heavy-
duty anti-corrosion coating
technology.
International Magazine For the
Painting & Coating Industry, PCI,
October, 2013
32. Market Analysis
×Toxic heavy-metals = phasing out by regulations
×Zinc = less effective + facing depletion (2027)
×Other heavy-metal free technologies = too weak
AnCatt coating holds the promises to revolutionized the anti-corrosion
coating markets.
- Chemical Informer
iBarrierTM Is The Future
for All Metal Structures
33. Verrazano Narrows Bridge
NY/NJ
- High performance lead based paint
- Repaint every 9-10 years
- Last repaint job estimated $40MN
for five year (1998-2003)
- Require lane closures
- Using airtight enclosures work
area and vacuum hazardous lead-
based paint chips
- A follow up 3-year clean and repaint
job cost $32 million, total $72MN
- complete in 2008, total 10 years
-Next repaint job received lowest bid
of $235,728,000 on June 28, 2012
- How much can 6X longevity Save?
34. Verrazano Narrows Bridge
NY/NJ
- High performance lead based paint
- Repaint every 9-10 years
- Last repaint job estimated $40MN
for five year (1998-2003)
- Require lane closures
- Using airtight enclosures work
area and vacuum hazardous lead-
based paint chips
- A follow up 3-year clean and repaint
job cost $32 million, total $72MN
- complete in 2008, total 10 years
-Next repaint job received lowest bid
of $235,728,000 on June 28, 2012
- How much can a coating that last
6X longer Save?
Interest Rate 0% 3.2% (inflation)
60 Year Savings $1.4 Billion $4.5 Billion
Annual Savings $23 Million $75 Million
35. - Federal Highway Trust
Fund Went Bankrupted
in 2014
- Still 61,000
structurally deficit
dangerous bridge need
to be repaired
- The U.S.
Infrastructure funding
gap expects to grow
into $3.6 trillion by
2020
Infrastructure Funding
Crisis
Photo: The Arlington Memorial
Bridge, Washington, D.C.
June 2015
36. A Traditional
2 to 3 Layer System
Manufactured and Applied in the
Traditional Ways: Spray, Brush, Roller, etc.
37. Value Proposition
Protective coating reaching new heights in sustainability
and performance
- Industrialcoatingworld.com
6X Longevity
Less than ½ thickness
Heavy-Metal Free
Self-Healing
Surface Tolerant
Green . Reliability . Fuel Efficiency . Cost Reduction
38. Market Size - $30B
Target Markets: Oil/Gas/Energy/Power, Aerospace, Automobile,
Industrial/machinaries, Marine, Infrastructures, Defense
Market Growth Rate: 4.5%
Competition: None (No current technology is capable to compete)
39. Award to move high impact breakthrough beyond incremental
change & make an impact at a system-wide level
AnCatt founder having breakfast
with Astronaut Cady Coleman at
the Kennedy Space Center while
receiving the LAUNCH Award,
January, 2015
40. Globally, 1 Ton of Steel
Turning into Rust,
Every 90 Second
The Energy Used to
Make 1 Ton of Steel
Can Power Avg. U.S. Household
For 3 Months
41. To Produce One Ton of Steel
Will Emit 1.8 Ton of CO2, Therefore
To Produce Replacement for Corroded Steels
Emit 748 Million Ton of CO2 Annually
Painting Bridges Caused Traffic Congestions,
Emit 80.3 Million Tone of CO2, Annually
Concrete Production is the No. 1 Source for
CO2 Emission, Steel Rebar Corrosion is the
No. 1 Cause for Concrete Failures
42. Imagine a World without Corrosion
- A much safer place where everything last much longer
43. With the Miracle of
iBarrierTM Technology
The best anti-corrosion coating ever been made
44. With the Miracle of
iBarrierTM Technology
The best anti-corrosion coating ever been made
Who are you? *
We are an American Chemical Society Green Chemistry and Engineering Business Plan and Techconnect National Innovation Award winning start-up. We are also the recent winner of the most promising energy and clean tech company award from the RICE Alliance. Our company is founded by Mr. Jianguo Wang in his own basement and garage after retiring. Mr. Jianguo Wang received his undergraduate and graduate degree in chemistry (a 9 year program) from the Peking University in China. Mr. Wang has several decades of industry experiences and two national award-winning technologies that are still in production today.
After he retired, Jianguo Wang started to work on product engineering. Rigorous research work combined with some serendipitous experiments led to the success of making conductive polymer nano-dispersions in early 2009. Then he mixed the nano dispersion into his novel coating formulations. Surprisingly, he cannot take the testing panels out of the salt fog chamber ever since. We were excited, when the heavy-metal free anti-corrosion coating passed 2,000 hours of salt fog test and still intact, which equivalent to the performance of best zinc rich coatings on the market.