ArcelorMittal wants to propose new solutions to cut the cost of corrosion protection for car makers.

• Development of new highly corrosion-resistant coatings as cost competitive alternatives to replace the secondary measures for corrosion protection (e.g application of waxes and sealers aiming at preventing perforating corrosion and corrosion on cut edges)
• Technical support to clients in the field of corrosion (e.g. understanding and solving of corrosion problems, testing of coatings to be self agreed)

• Complete elaboration and characterisation of new metallic coatings
• Intensive collaborations with resin suppliers to evaluate new organic coatings: low cost solutions with high level of performances (both on EG substrate and on GI substrate)
• Development of methodologies to evaluate corrosion as it occurs on vehicles (perforating corrosion, corrosion on edges etc.). A special effort is made to propose and validate methods to enable to quantify corrosion damage precisely (by laser triangulation for instance)

• Temporary corrosion resistance
• Efficiency of inhibitive solutions/oils
• Corrosion resistance of coated/uncoated steel

• Perforation corrosion resistance
• Cosmetic corrosion resistance
• Influence of painting conditions on corrosion resistance
• Influence of forming on corrosion resistance