Nordoxa Materials & Corrosion Engineering

Contact

Getting in touch

Email is the fastest route. We reply to technical enquiries within two working days.

Email
info@nordoxa.site
Post
Postbus 1247
3000 BG Rotterdam
Netherlands
Hours
Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:00 CET

What to include in a first enquiry

You do not need to prepare a formal brief. The following is usually enough for us to tell you whether an investigation is worthwhile and roughly what it would involve:

  • What the component is, and what it does.
  • The material grade, and the material certificate if you have it.
  • How long it was in service before the problem appeared.
  • The service environment: fluid, temperature, chloride content, pH, flow, and anything unusual that happened.
  • Photographs, including one that shows the component in its installed context.

Before you clean anything. Corrosion products, deposits and fracture surfaces carry most of the evidence. Wire-brushing or degreasing a failed part before examination routinely destroys the answer. If a component has failed and you may want it examined, bag it dry and leave it alone.

Sending a component

Please contact us before dispatching anything so that we can confirm receipt arrangements. Fracture surfaces should be protected from contact and from moisture; a rigid box with the fracture faces isolated is preferable to wrapping.