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Stop the Corrosion Process with VCI Packaging

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Metal parts have the potential to corrode at any stage of the manufacturing, storage or transport process. If corrosion is caught early, the metal part won’t incur damage, but any amount of corrosion causes headaches for your company and your customers. When shipping and storing metal parts, corrosion control is essential. Your company needs the proven rust-prevention methods of VCI packaging to ensure that customers receive pristine parts. Your image and bottom line are at stake. The Science Behind VCI: Understanding how corrosion occurs helps companies control it and deliver pristine parts to satisfied customers (i.e., customers looking to order more parts). The corrosion reaction between metals and oxygen is immediate and continuous unless the corrosion cell perpetuating the reaction is stopped. Corrosion on metal is a result of oxidation – a molecular, destructive reaction between oxygen and a  metal’s surface. While oxidation does not weaken me...