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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic (FRP) has been used successfully to reduce corrosion losses, which include total cost of failure (lost production, safety risks, repair costs) and ongoing repair and replacement, since the 1950’s.  Many chemical process industries...