With its seamless design and no overlaps… DuraTop-50 is the pole cap that will outlast wooden T&D and telecommunication poles, and wood pilings and posts. At 70 to 80 mils thick, and with a 3″ lip, DuraTop-50 protects the end grain of wooden poles, pilings, and posts from damage caused by the environment. It has Ovante’s […]
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ici is lightweight, portable, expandable and adjustable! The flameless, infrared heat of ici is focused and safe to use in the factory or in the field. Click here to learn more about ici and to contact Ovante for pricing and ordering. (Patent-pending)
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Ovante, LLC is pleased to announce that we have received notice from the USPTO that the non-provisional application for the Storm Greeter coating system has been examined and found to meet the requirements for issue. More news will be published as we move forward!!
Ovante to Receive Patent for Anti-Corrosion Coating! Read More »
The Cost of Corrosion: $276 Billion… in 2002. The study, generated by Gerry Koche of DNV-GL, studied 57 industries in the United States and determined the percentage of corrosion costs that each incurred per year. In 2015, that cost is somewhere in the neighborhood of $540 Billion. A revised report is currently in the works
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Update from 1.19.16: The Storm Greeter Peel & Stick (SGPS) coating system has been applied to galvanized substrates at 30 and 23 degrees Fahrenheit, (-1 and -5 C). The substrate was then ready for service. No curing time required. Storm Greeter is a heat-cured polymer. Ovante has taken the heat curing part out of the application
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“There’s got to be a better way.” In one aspect, post Katrina construction failed before it even got started. In the rebuilding effort, all of the galvanized steel construction components such as joist hangers, hurricane straps and ties, reinforcing straps, and hanger rods used for suspending the plumbing between floors and beneath slabs are no
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Sun Tzu said “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” Many coatings seek to “win out” against the things nature throws at them. The ecomère coating endures. The elements pound, grind, and burn paint. ecomère absorbs and deflects. Marine life chisels into paint. ecomère bends but doesn’t break. ecomère remains
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“The Splash Zone”, that in-between environment that leaves a substrate immersed or exposed, wet or dry, baking in the UV. For 13 months, Storm Greeter was washed by waves and roasted in the coastal sunshine. No rust. No corrosion. For 13 months, marine plant and wildlife creeped on, crawled through, and nestled against Storm Greeter.
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For years industry professionals concerned with the cost and effect of corrosion have warned of a coming tsunami. As infrastructure ages they have sounded a clarion call, through NACE and IEEE, that something must be done: Something new. The Call: NACE: The Cost of Corrosion Study – 2002 Failure to Act: The Economic Impact of
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Asset Management The life of an asset begins on the drawing board, followed by its construction, installation, breaking-in period, maintenance cycle, the occasional repair, ending with retirement and disposal. Effective asset management, along with corrosion management, begins at the design stage. The optimal design team should include one or more corrosion specialists or engineers. The
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