Houston, Texas: ROCKWOOL Technical Insulation recently introduced its next-generation ProRox® Mat (Wrap) MA 960 with WR-Tech for large-diameter pipework, vessels, columns, and other plant applications requiring design flexibility. ProRox Mat (Wrap) incorporates ROCKWOOL’s proven WR-Tech (Water Repellency Technology), which provides proven protection against corrosion under insulation (CUI) by keeping steel surfaces as dry as possible.
The ingress of water onto operation-critical equipment and piping systems occurs through every type of insulation and is the main cause of unanticipated heat loss, downtime, and spills due to CUI. Roughly 10% of a plant’s maintenance costs and up to 60% of pipeline maintenance costs go toward mitigating CUI events.
Award-winning protection
Part of ROCKWOOL Technical Insulation’s line of ProRox stone wool insulation products, ProRox MA 960 with WR-Tech is available for customers in the North American market. The insulation’s revolutionary WR-Tech binder technology combats CUI by coating each individual fiber of the ProRox insulation with an inorganic, hydrophobic additive during the productionprocess.
ProRox insulation with WR-Tech has been keeping critical plant systems dry since 2017. The technology was awarded the prestigious AMPP 2019 Corrosion Innovation of the Year Award, one of 10 technologies out of more than 50 nominees to receive the honor.
WR-Tech was first successfully launched in ROCKWOOL’s ProRox mandrel wound pipe sections, where it quickly demonstrated reliable, long-term CUI protection and sustained thermal resistance to keep plant processes operating at their peak. Plant engineers are upgrading their specifications to include WR-Tech, while contractors and installers are frequently applying this solution to both new-build and maintenance projects.
“We know that CUI mitigation is a top priority for our customers,” says Dan Aiken, Business Unit Director of Americas for ROCKWOOL Technical Insulation. “We developed WR-Tech as part of our ongoing commitment to delivering the highest performance, reliability, and value in applications with a risk of CUI. With WR-Tech as part of ProRox MA 960, plant operators can reliably protect their vessels, columns, and large pipework systems—including bends—from CUI.”
To learn more visit: https://rti.rockwool.com/applications/wr-tech/
This announcement is part of a paid partnership between TIAC Times and ROCKWOOL Technical Insulation
