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on lean manufacturing, higher quality
products, and on-time delivery. Finally,
Teeter is taking over as manager of health,
safety, and environment, where he will lead
the development of job site safety policies
and procedures—as well as ensuring envi-
ronmental stewardship practices.
Applied Graphene Materials
Hosts U.K. Government Visit
Officials at Applied Graphene Materials
welcomed a U.K. government official to their
innovation center. Photo courtesy of Applied
Graphene Materials.
David Prior, undersecretary of state for
health in the U.K. Parliament's department
for business, energy, and industrial strategy,
recently visited specialty graphene materi-
als producer Applied Graphene Materials
(Cleveland, United Kingdom) for an intro-
duction to graphene and the science behind
it. The company's unique and patented pro-
cess for making graphene nanoplatelets
was demonstrated to Prior on a tour of
facilities at its innovation center in Wilton,
United Kingdom. Prior was said to be par-
ticularly keen to understand the challenges
associated with the production of nano-
platelets, the dispersion of graphene, and
the speed with which the process could be
scaled up. Prior spoke with William Weaver,
technical director, and Neil Hindle, engi-
neering director, at the company. Discus-
sions involved the production and various
applications of graphene in industry.
Presentation Targets Storage
Tank Corrosion Protection
Cortec Corp.'s
(St. Paul, Min-
nesota) Euro-
pean distribu-
tor Presserv
(Stavanger,
Norway) and
its tank bri-
gade division
were invited
by iTanks
(Rotterdam,
The Nether-
lands) to pres-
ent a paper on
corrosion
protection for soil-side tank floors in
above ground storage tanks (ASTs). iTanks
is an industry body that connects compa-
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The tank brigade business at
Presserv presented its
CorroLogic solution for
storage tank protection.
Photo courtesy of Cortec.