Dec 1, 2017 | FRP Blog
UTComp founder & CEO Geoff Clarkson had his article Non-intrusive FRP Inspection for Avoiding Premature Asset Retirement published in the November/December 2017 issue of Inspectioneering Journal. The article provides a case study of an actual inspection and...
Oct 10, 2017 | News, Press Releases
October 10, 2017 — UTComp is pleased to announce a licensing agreement with U.K.- based Tank Inspections Ltd., bringing the UltraAnalytix® inspection system for glass-reinforced plastic (GRP) composites to the company’s large client base in the chemical, water and...
Sep 5, 2017 | FRP Blog
Update: UTComp is committed to helping businesses get back on track after natural disasters strike by offering one-week turnaround for UltraAnalytix® data reports to determine if structural damage has occurred to FRP assets (normal guarantee is three weeks). For more...
Jun 12, 2017 | FRP Blog
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. — Abraham Maslow In 1966, Abraham Maslow called this the “Law of the Hammer”. He observed that people will depend on tools or methods that are familiar before they make the effort to get new tools or learn new...
Jun 12, 2017 | FRP Blog
One cannot manage change. One can only be ahead of it. — Peter Drucker Evaluating fitness-for-service of FRP and composite assets Peter Drucker is famous as a management consultant, but his words ring true in the chemical industry. When industrial equipment is exposed...
Jun 1, 2017 | FRP Blog
UTComp’s UltraAnalytix® system for fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) inspection is discussed in an article, Novel Inspection System Aligns FRP and Metallic Asset Management Approaches, published in the May/June 2017 issue of Inspectioneering Journal. The article, by...
May 11, 2017 | News
Read about UTComp and its innovative ultrasound analysis technology, UltraAnalytix ®, in UTComp: Engineering firm gaining market clarity with help from Innovation Guelph.
Mar 26, 2017 | Conferences, Technical Papers
Presented at the Corrosion Conference & Expo, March 26-30, 2017. Authors: Pradip Khaladkar, PECT and Geoff Clarkson, UTComp Summary: Fiberglass reinforced plastic materials are well suited to a wide variety of chemical handling equipment where resistance to...
Mar 22, 2017 | News, Press Releases
March 22, 2017 - UTComp will showcase its UltraAnalytix® system for non-destructive, non-intrusive FRP testing — including new technology for accurate testing of small-diameter pipe — at the NACE Corrosion Conference and Expo on March 26-30, 2017 in New Orleans,...
Jun 8, 2016 | Conferences, Technical Papers
Geoffrey E. Clarkson, P.Eng., FECUTComp Inc.Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Summary: Fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) is used for tanks and pipe to contain a wide range of corrosive vapors and liquids – in many cases with superior performance and lower cost compared to...
