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Welcome to WCO – The World Corrosion Organization
Our Mission:
To promote education and best practices in corrosion control for the socio-economic benefit of society, preservation of resources, and protection of the environment.
Our Goals:
To raise public awareness of corrosion and corrosion control: To develop and implement a Corrosion Awareness Day that is recognized worldwide in the way we recognize Earth Day. A worldwide Corrosion Awareness Day will help create public awareness of corrosion and what the public – individuals – can do to control it.
To identify world best practices in corrosion management: To identify what are the best practices; that is, those practices which should always be used by the industrialized world. However, in many parts of the world, countries lack the resources to put in place what the industrialized world agrees are best practices and determine what would be the best practices most suitable for their socio-economic conditions.
To facilitate the provision of corrosion control expertise to governments, industries, and communities: To work with the International Corrosion Council to make this information available particularly in the developing world.
To normalize corrosion-related standards worldwide: To harmonize the standards that are already in use.
Achieving Our Goals:
Joint committees have been designated to work on strategies for achieving each goal. We meet regularly via the Internet because of widespread locations and differing time zones.
Our Members:
International, national and other not-for-profit organizations involved in dissemination of corrosion information, corrosion research, education, mitigation, and/or materials selection.
Our Affiliates:
Organizations that are interested in corrosion and corrosion mitigation, but do not meet the criteria required of members.
Upcoming Meetings
Please check the schedule of the individual conferences for the date and time of WCO meetings to be held at:
EUROCORR 2013, Estoril, Portugal, September 1-5, 2013
WCO Board of Administrators to meet
WCO/EFC Joint Symposium on Water
NACE Corrosion 2014, San Antonio, Texas, USA, March 9-14, 2014
WCO Annual Meeting
WCO Symposium
World Corrosion Organization Granted NGO Status by the United Nations
(July 14, 2010, New York, New York) – The World Corrosion Organization (WCO) has been granted Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) status by the United Nations Department of Public Information Non-Governmental Organization (DPI/NGO) Section.
In selecting WCO for NGO status, the DPI/NGO recognizes that WCO has the unique capability to make a substantial contribution to the work of the DPI. By including WCO as a resource, the DPI acknowledges the need to provide greater corrosion prevention and mitigation guidance to the world.
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