Materials Performance

OCT 2017

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27 NACE INTERNATIONAL: VOL. 56, NO. 10 MATERIALS PERFORMANCE OCTOBER 2017 Serving the Corrosion Industry for 75 Years NACE officers meet at the 1948 annual conference held in St. Louis, Missouri. Fall Committee Week became Corro- sion Technology Week (CTW) in 2003 to include activities other than technical com- mittee meetings and attract attendees who might not be members. Most technical committees also meet each spring at CORROSION, NACE's annual conference. Since NACE issued its first two stan- dards more than five decades ago, the asso- ciation has developed more than 200 stan- dards and technical reports, including standard practices, materials requirements, and test methods. Recommended practices were changed to standard practices in 2006, and existing recommended practices are being changed to standard practices as they are revised or reaffirmed. By 2016, the globalization of NACE was embraced by translating more than 50 stan- dards into Chinese and/or Spanish, launch- ing the Section Technology Advisory Group (STAG) program to obtain more participa- tion internationally, and establishing more effective strategies for engaging with the worldwide ISO standards organization. Annual Conference NACE's first annual meeting was held in 1944 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, Texas. There were 260 attendees and the proceed- ings included 25 papers. As with member- ship, conference attendance swelled steadily in ensuing years, reaching 2,000 participants in the mid-1950s, 3,000 in the mid-1970s, and 6,000 in the late 1990s and beyond. The annual exhibition has grown from 250 exhibitors in 1994 to 438 exhibi- tors in 2017, including 87 new exhibiting companies. This annual conference fea- tured 44 technical symposia with 488 paper presentations, six research symposia with 89 presentations, and 196 technical com- mittee meetings. CORROSION 2018 will be held April 15 to 19 in Phoenix, Arizona, fea- turing special events celebrating NACE's 75th anniversary. Recipients of NACE's prestigious Asso- ciation Awards have been honored at annual conferences since 1947, when the first two awards presented were named for and given to W.R. Whitney and F.N. Speller. Additional awards were established in 1953 (A.B. Campbell Award), 1973 (R.A. Brannon Award), 1987 (T.J. Hull Award), and 1996 (H.H. Uhlig Award). The Distinguished Ser- vice Award (established in 1969) and Tech- nical Achievement Award (initiated in 1986) honor outstanding contributions to the association and the field of corrosion control. On the occasion of its 50th Anni- versary in 1993, NACE created two new cat- egories of awards: NACE Fellow and Distin- guished Organization Award. The CORROSION journal Best Paper Award was added in 2010. In addition to the CORROSION confer- ences, NACE conducts a multitude of topi- cal and regional conferences, seminars, and other events around the world. Publications In March 1945, CORROSION debuted as NACE's official publication to provide a per- manent record of the papers prepared for the association at meetings and annual conferences, and from other editorial sources. The journal contained several technical articles, editorials, abstracts from other corrosion papers, information about association activities, and a roster of NACE members. Its frequency grew from quar- terly to monthly in 1946, and changed from a 6 by 9-in publication to its current stan- "The fact that NACE entered these and other fields too numerous to cover here while maintaining a high level of integrity has resulted in its good reputation in industry with the outcome of steady growth over the years, which has dramatically increased throughout the world. The thirst for knowledge still exists and NACE member volunteers and staff continue to work hard to fulfill this need." W. Brian Holtsbaum, NACE past president and member since 1957

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